[Imc-web] What's Local -- What's Not

[JASON MIEREK]

"Now I see that it has migrated back to the Local Newswire. I guess I'm
OK with that, but it also opens us up to charges of discrimination in
what is considered local news. Why should we kick spammers like DAN off
of the Local wire for reposts from a different point of view, but let
gehrig post this particular story there?"

Mike, when you say that the post "migrated back" does this mean that the 
poster moved the story back to the Local Newswire?  I agree that this is a 
good issue to discuss tomorrow evening.  Perhaps we already have an implicit 
policy---you call DAN a "spammer"---it is okay if folks repost occasionally 
(maybe they did not know it was a repost), but if they take up too much 
space or keep doing something after they've been asked to stop (these are 
the behaviors I assume bring on the label "spammer") then we move to stage 
two and deal with them.

Sincerely,

Jason







>From: Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>
>To: "imc-web at ucimc.org" <imc-web at ucimc.org>
>Subject: [Imc-web] What's Local -- What's Not
>Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:51:23 -0600
>
>Earlier today I moved a post made by my good friend gehrig that had been
>posted to the Local Newswire down to the Elsewhere Newswire.
><http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/8783/index.php>
>Since it was a repost of a story from Haaretz, with no local connection
>other than the fact that gehrig was the poster, I thought that was
>appropriate.
>
>Now I see that it has migrated back to the Local Newswire. I guess I'm
>OK with that, but it also opens us up to charges of discrimination in
>what is considered local news. Why should we kick spammers like DAN off
>of the Local wire for reposts from a different point of view, but let
>gehrig post this particular story there?
>
>There is also the problem of not knowing WHO is posting. In this case, I
>(and probably others, based on the fact that it was moved back to Local)
>know, but in other cases, local people could post similar material there
>assuming since it was OK for gehrig, it's OK for them. Then we move it
>to Elsewhere because we see no obvious local connection. They could
>raise legitmate concerns about preferential editing if this occurs.
>
>I have posted stuff that was not local on Elsewhere myself that really
>doesn't have any local content other than the fact that I posted it.
>Should I have posted them to Local just because I'm local and I think an
>international story with no apparent local connection should be on the
>Local Newswire? I don't really think so.
>
>I'm raising this now because appearances do matter and this creates the
>perception that we engage in selective editing. We have been accused of
>this in the past by infamous spammer DAN, but for no particular reason
>other than he felt like it. I hate to hand ammunition to lowlifes like
>DAN and that may be what we are doing if we don't take a closer look at
>this when we next meet. I would certainly like to hear the opinions of
>others on this.
>Mike Lehman
>
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