[imc-melbourne-work] Melbourne Indymedia Suspends Publishing?

[harry tuttle]

I am in agreement with doing this as soon as is
possible. 

The other thing that might be good to do is to change
the address of the contact from
info at melbourne.indymedia.org to something else like
contact at ...

There is so so so much spam it makes answering emails
really difficult....

I will respond more with thoughts, when I have more
time...

Harry



--- takver <tirin at takver.com> wrote:

> I think we need to stop open publishing on Melbourne
> Indymedia ASAP to
> reassess what we want to do.
> 
> Over the last week I have attempted to get the site
> back on track with
> features and moderation. But one person can't manage
> the site. All it
> takes is one irate user, like Parrot Press, to
> undermine the site and my
> efforts.
> 
> Basically, irate users and spammers have become more
> persistent in their
> attacks and without a software upgrade or a
> collective of several people
> to actively moderate posts and do features, the site
> is unworkable. If
> numbers are insufficient to moderate the site
> effectively, then the only
> responsible action is to stop open publishing.
> 
> I think this is the responsible thing to do for our
> loyal readers and
> contributors, many of whom have openly complained
> about spam and
> crossposts being published and unmoderated. If we
> suspend publishing I
> suggest we link to  Sydney IMC for people to post
> stories. 
> 
> If or when open publishing is turned off, I shall
> probably join Sydney
> IMC to help with moderation and features.
> 
> ==Australia wide Indymedia==
> 
> Cameron from Sydney IMC has seriously suggested that
> an Australia wide
> site be developed with various newswires according
> to our needs and
> moderated and edited by IMC ppl across Australia. I
> am now thinking this
> could be viable. 
> 
> If this proposal goes ahead I would like to see for
> Melbourne:
> * an open newswire and a promoted newswire. 
> * userids to enable priveledged posting, 
> * posters being able to choose a comments option:
> all comments, approved
> comments, or no comments.
> * an event calendar for each city/region
> 
> I would also like to see at the very least one
> newswire on the Australia
> wide site being fully catalogued by Google News, and
> for this to happen
> we must show we exercise editorial control over
> those postings -
> basically ensuring articles are factual and of a
> reasonable standard.
> 
> == Suggested statement as Front Page feature:==
> 
> Melbourne Indymedia Suspends Publishing
> 
> Open publishing has been suspended on Melbourne
> Indymedia as numbers in
> our editorial collective are insufficient to manage
> the site effectively
> and responsibly. We realise that MIM still plays a
> vital role in
> reporting activist news from Melbourne, Victoria and
> further afield. To
> this end the present collective will be assessing
> options for how best
> to provide an activist news service in the future.
> If you wish to get
> involved, please <a
>
href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/contact.php">contact
> us</a>, or
> subscribe to our <a
>
href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/mailinglist.php">mailing
> list</a>.
> <p>
> While open publishing is suspended, our collective
> suggests if you have
> a well researched, well-written story about
> Melbourne events, you should
> post the story to <a
> href="http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/">Sydney
> Indymedia</a>. We thank our many loyal readers and
> contributors for
> several years of grassroots journalism and media
> activism and hope we
> can resume reporting with an even better interface
> at some stage in the
> future.<br>
> <i>Melbourne Indymedia Collective</i>
> 
> 
> =======================
> 
> Discussion, ideas?
> -- 
> in solidarity
> Takver
> 
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