[Imc-uk-features] [imc-liverpool] unhidden (kept ticked for liverpool only) article 379900 ...

[WietsE]

CARLREALEY at aol.com wrote:
> nice one maria it would be good if that procedure was adopted by the uk site 
> moderators to allow us to moderate our own sites how can we propose this to 
> the uk list
>   

This has been brought up before. For the Notts site we have adopted a 
set of editorial guidelines with some slight differences to the uk site. 
This means that when uk moderators hide an article they should really 
check if it has a region ticked as there might be different criteria for 
hiding. Most admins do check this and would just untick the uk tickbox 
so it's up to that regional collective to moderate it off their site or 
leave it on. Unfortunately there is a lot of moderation going on, 
especially on the uk site. As all the regional sites and the uk one are 
in one admin system, these things can happen.

For example, back in September 2005 we had a couple of articles about 
the Tour of Britain on the Notts site:

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/09/322413.html
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/09/322434.html

Someone decided to hide these as they weren't 'political enough'.

This then started a little discussion on the imc-uk-features list:

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2005-September/0907-mb.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2005-September/0907-1b.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2005-September/0907-u1.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2005-September/0907-2x.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2005-September/0907-2u.html

I guess the point is that if you as a collective decide that you want 
your site to be part of the UK site system, and are on the same server, 
instead of your own then it will always be the case that others *could* 
moderate what goes onto the Liverpool site. Also it means we have a 
shared responsibility for what goes into that system and onto the uk and 
regional sites. On the other hand, if you make very clear that you are 
on top of moderation yourself and want people to leave liverpool 
articles alone, that shouldn't be an issue. Some collectives aren't as 
active as others and sometimes you need to make a choice to just hide 
it, instead of it just staying on some regional pages.

Cheers, Wietse