[Imc-uk-features] (anti)semitic/(anti)zionist/(personal)debates

[ekes]

jackslucid wrote:
> ps  is greenstein going to email everyone on this list everytime he
> doesn't get his own way?  I though that such was verbotten?

I guess everyone has had copies of the e-mail so I won't let it through
or bother reposting it to the wiki, or telling people any more about it.

As a list admin sorry for not dealing with it sooner, but I've been busy
this weekend and days since doing productive stuff.

jackslucid wrote:
> it would be better perhaps to leave such threads that are still
> attracting interest and activity for those who started a dialogue to
> continue it

I *strongly* disagree. IMHO, and from past experience, the present
toleration of marginal to non-news articles is the fuel of the fire. It
is in part a worthwhile discussion on the wrong forum and in part a
painful exposition of personalisation of debate to the point it becomes
useless.

It's not the first time this has all fired up. I was so saddened to see
a repost from Little Green Footballs on the newswire. It took so long to
get rid of them, and now it's back.

The website is just not equipped to be a discussion forum. While we have
this content management system, and we have a single newswire, I'm more
in favour of keeping focus on reports about stuff people have done. We
can discuss having better facilities for more discursive, comment,
analysis etc. but at the moment the single wire just becomes useless for
it's primary purpose when it gets flooded with this sort of stuff.

So my counter proposal, if we had more that two or three people actually
doing the newswire (cf my previous appeal) would be to become more
strict about the non-news guideline for the present period.

ekes