[IMC-UK-Features] request for feature on indmedia : Climate Rush

[phunkee]

iggyp imc wrote:
> Dear All,
> It's this type of fuking around that leads to a lot of activists not 
> bothering with Indymedia UK, and i understand why. What goes up seems 
> to depend on what admins think is a more important/relevant story, and 
> the usual lack of communication with people who submit their news just 
> compounds this impression
>
> If people are going to be jumping all over features with comments such 
> as 'i didn't think anybody would do it', or that if they had noticed 
> it, they would 'not have allowed it to be put up', then indymedia 
> deserves to be junked as a one sided personal project (which it is not).
>
> ALSO....if i had not put it up, would it have just festered in the 
> email list? No response to the requester? Again, i know people who 
> have sent good articles to the features list and gotten no response, 
> so have taken articles elsewhere (most noticeably, to be published in 
> the Guardian).
>
This is what happens in a volunteer based project. If it's your 'thing' 
then you'll act on it, that's how it works. Lot's of us have plenty of 
commitments including the regional based sites so we can't do 
everything. If you hadn't put it up, then it probably would have 
'festered' for longer as you put it.

Tbh the feature was only down for a few hours on Saturday morning. I 
unticked uk (I don't think that constitutes a hide as such) and ben 
re-ticked it pretty quickly and it wasn't challenged. Now I understand 
it's gone from a startpage special, which wasn't proposed properly, to a 
feature on the top of the middle column and reports are still rolling 
in. Consequently it's had loadsa exposure, so what's the problem?

Playing nicely but imperfectly ;)

phunkee