[New-imc] New Victoria (BC, Canada) collective: editorial policy

[Bartolomeo]

Hi,

thank you for your polite responses. Sorry for not bcc'ing my mail to Luke. 
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> Thus, I have one question:
> > > Once registered a user can submit an article. All articles must be
> > > approved by site moderators before  being posted on the site.
>
> As far as I understand it, this means that there is no open publishing on
> vicindymedia.org. Isn't this a requirement for an indymedia site?

I quoted too much (although some of the points mentioned in the answers are 
really interesting). I should have quoted only this:

> > > All articles must be approved by site moderators before  being posted on
> > > the site. 

I thought that it is essential to open posting, that the posted content is 
shown instantly on the website without prior moderation as defined in the 
wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_publishing):

"Open publishing is a process of creating news or other content that is 
transparent to the readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly 
appear in the pool of stories publicly available."

Of course, I do agree that it is necessary to remove postings that do not 
comply with the editorial guidelines. I asked my question because I thought 
that by moderating the postings before showing them there is a lack of 
transparency as cencensorship may happen unnoticed.

But now that  thought about it again, there are other ways to inform about 
decisions made by the moderators, e.g. a trash bin or a list of censored 
articles. How is this handled by Victoria IMC?

Ciao, Bart
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