[Imc-uk-features] hiding comments

[Chris]

Hi

On Mon 26-Mar-2007 at 01:37:59PM +0100, Ilyan wrote:
> There was no guide to see hidden comments that I could
> see in the Guidelines. 

Good point, this sentance could probably do with revising
sometime:

  All articles, hidden and showing can be inspected via
  the View all posts page.

When it was written there was no way that uses could see
hidden comments -- the ability to view hidden comments was
only added a year or two ago...

> Hidden comments were not included in view all posts
> viewings. 

Indication that an article has hidden comments and a link
to the article with ?c=all apended to the URL has been in
place on the view all posts page from the same time as the
ability for users to view hidden comments was implemented.

> If a post giving name and address and advocating
> violence were acted upon with fatal results, then
> Editors might be liable for incitement to murder.  Such
> a post was certainly hidden on UKindymedia, and I hope
> edited to remove the name and address, or deleted.   

Yes, this is what happens, at the last network meting this
addition to the guidelines was agreed:

  On very rare occasions some content may be fully deleted
  - past instances have included pornography and personal
  details.

> On Indycymru we used to carry posts from the SWP as well
> as CP, they were always answered or given a warning
> notice about the merit of scientific Marxism and the
> danger of dogmatic Marxism.    We were never swamped.

The practice has been, for the last six months or more, to
only hide article from left groups if they are 'party
building' type posts -- for example, 'join our sect!',
'vote for our cult!' type aticles. Ones that are new /
analysis and don't claim that their variery of marxism is
the one true saviour of humanity have been left up.
Including some SWP posts. 

> Comments from the far right caused much of the best
> writing on Indycymru.  

Yes, I agree that at times it helps to have something to
argue with...

Chris