[imc-melbourne-work] Future of Melbourne Indymedia

[harry tuttle]

Hi all,
Its good to read all the ideas floating around. Sorry,
but due to other life stuff I havent organised a
meeting. What about Saturday or Sunday the 26th/27th
maybe later in the afternoon. I guess we really need
to come  up with some kind of short term plan while we
work out the bigger picture/future of MIM. 
Harry


--- musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hola,
> 
> I'm largely staying out of this debate because I'm
> incredibly busy as
> it is, but I would flag this interesting article by
> Cory Doctorow of
> boingboing fame:
> 
>
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600005
> 
> "How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your
> Online Community
> 
> Angry people looking for fights will inevitably try
> to poison
> successful Internet communities. Columnist Cory
> Doctorow looks at ways
> to remove the poison without killing the discussion
> too. "
> 
> I like some of the ideas in here - especially if we
> could implement
> disemvowelling:
> 
> "Troll whisperers aren't necessarily very good at
> hacking tools, so
> there's always an opportunity for geek synergy in
> helping them to
> automate their hand-crafted techniques, giving them
> a software
> force-multiplier for their good sense. For example,
> Teresa invented a
> technique called disemvowelling -- removing the
> vowels from some or
> all of a fiery message-board post. The advantage of
> this is that it
> leaves the words intact, but requires that you read
> them very slowly
> -- so slowly that it takes the sting out of them.
> And, as Teresa
> recently explained to me, disemvowelling part of a
> post lets the rest
> of the community know what kind of sentiment is and
> is not socially
> acceptable."
> 
> L.
> 
> On 5/17/07, Anna Helme <anna at engagemedia.org> wrote:
> > the other thing i would suggest is that if the
> collective wants new
> > software to do this:
> >
> >  >>>>>>>>
> >
> > ==Software==
> >
> > In terms of software, the Melbourne site really
> needs that upgrade.
> >
> > * We need Userids for identification of quality
> users.
> >
> > * We need an Option for users when they post an
> article to decide
> > whether they want a) no comments B) approved
> comments c) all comments
> >
> > * At least one newswire that is only for articles
> posted by "trusted
> > users" and that members of the editorial
> collective can move articles
> > to. Without this, we can not met the requirements
> of Google News and
> > we become just another opinionated blog.
> >
> >  >>>>>>>>
> >
> > (as takver has outlined) then MIM should use the
> money in the bank
> > - am i right in thinking it's about $1000? if not
> i'm sure it wouldn't
> > be too hard to get it up to that amount - to *pay*
> a developer to
> > do this. MIM seems to do OK when it comes to
> donations.
> >
> > you should be able to solve the major problem MIM
> is facing - the
> > software - if you pay a developer now, and know
> that you will have to
> > use donations to pay for regular maintenance. much
> more sustainable
> > i think - both for MIM and for the developers who
> may be so burnt out
> > from doing free activist stuff they leave it all
> behind and never
> > come back.
> >
> > if $1500 was spent on software development /
> maintenance a year,
> > perhaps everybody would be much happier...
> >
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> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> ===================================
> Imagine a giant radish, like a planet sized radish.
> Now imagine that
> there's a bunny hopping to the radish, and it takes
> a bite out of it.
> But the bunny spits out that bite and kind of smears
> it back in place
> on the radish with a paw. Then it rains.
> 
> That's the internet.
> 
>
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