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textSCRAM Takes Care of the Dead Air; 101.1 FM is Free by SC IMC repost
Santa Cruz Radio Access Movement (SCRAM) is acting autonomously and in support of Free Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:27am PDT
image Free Radio Santa Cruz Is Reviewing All Options (Comment On: SCRAM Takes Care of the Dead Air; 101.1 FM is Free) by SC IMC repost
At present, the Free Radio Santa Cruz collective is reviewing all options to move forward with our news, music, and artistic programming. We are streaming on th...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:31am PDT
textExhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media by kirsten anderberg
There is a serious problem with Independent Media Centers (IMCs) in the open comment areas. IMCs end up publishing as much content *against* freedom, racism, sexism, classism, etc., as they do *for* those things via the open comment areas. “Trolls,” or people who stalk indy media sources and writers, work hard at publishing as much hate mail in comment areas on IMCs as the individual IMC editorial groups will allow or overlook. They do not deserve to be published, plain and simple. It is time...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:37pm PDT
imageKill trolls. (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media) by @
The best solution is to kill trolls....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 8:58pm PDT
imagehmm (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media) by hmm
Open comment sections quickly sink to the lowest common denomenator, but more agressive hiding could be much more problematic. There are clear cases where h...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:55pm PDT
imageanother case of restricting free speach (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media) by one eye open
so anything posted is not to be commented on? the comment section is here for "open debate of issues" on IMC. are you saying we can only comment if w...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 10:16pm PDT
imagecensorship is censorship!!! (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media)
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by richard kobzey
I would rather let 1,000 trolls speak, than suppress one voice that could debunk them all....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:51am PDT
imageyou are twisting facts (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media) by kirsten
1. Giving the AUTHOR the option to close the comment areas would not eliminate open comments. It would eliminate SOME open comment areas, NOT ALL. Jumping to AL...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 5:20am PDT
imageanother pointer (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media) by IMCista
also: http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/10/1701733.php you are not the only collective taking this seriously nessie....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 1:45pm PDT
imagethat's (Comment On: Exhibitionism, Trolls and Indy Media) by absolutely right
you don't have to censor critics who are already silenced....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 4:47pm PDT
textLet a Thousand Cameras Roll - Keep the Election Honest With Video. by Kiersten Johnson and Dean Mougianis
A grassroots media uprising begins to swell around Election Day....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:11pm PDT
textSolutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs by Kirsten Anderberg
I would like to request that IMCs talk about this option: What if we set it up so the author of the article could *choose* to have an OPEN OR CLOSED comment area. The *author's choice*, not the IMC editorial's choice....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 2:12pm PDT
imageSounds reasonable (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by Daniel
It seems reasonable to me that authors should have that option....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:03pm PDT
imagequestion... (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by what do you think-
of the nyc.indymedia article rating system? It did have problems during the RNC convention, when they had to disable it due to freeper activity. Aside from that...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:07pm PDT
imagebad idea (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by IMCista
I'm not completely rejecting the idea of yours, Kristen. But, I do think that alot of critical info and discussion would be lost if this occured. I do agree tha...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:46pm PDT
imageAuthors Entitled to Sanity on IMCs (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by Craig Stehr
I just returned to Berkeley after months of being on the political frontlines. I was at the DNC, walked the 258 mile radpeace march from Boston to NYC, was at ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 10:36am PDT
imagethat's (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by absolutely right
you don't have to censor critics who are already silenced....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 4:47pm PDT
image" it is hard to filter troll comments out with the current software" (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by just wondering
Yeah, it's hard. So what? That doesn't stop SF-IMC from doing it. Do you think we're at a dinner party!?! This is not a dinner party. This is war. Yeah, it...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:14pm PDT
imagethe villains: (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by it must be them men!!
i don't know who they are, but they've even been known to hurt people's feelings! allow me to share some more or less related, very touchy, personal antecdotes ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 7:07pm PDT
imageif you don't think (Comment On: Solutions: Reining in Trolls on IMCs) by it's about forced agreement and "nicenes
then why is it called "trolling" hmm?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 7:55pm PDT
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