[imc-perth] [Fwd: [Imc-oceania] More detailed United IMC proposal]

[Cameron Gregg]

Raymond Grenfell wrote:
> Cam,
> 
> I definitely like the sound of this proposal however in the interest
> of creating a more credible front for indymedia in the region I think
> there should be a moderated general newswire and then general newswire
> feeds from all IMCs ie Perth, Manila etc. The moderated wire would be
> accessible for editors and contributers who apply for a log in.
> 
> Perhaps this detracts from the principles of open publishing and
> indymedia but essentially the wire would be no different than the
> features wire other than having more regular content.
> 
> Thoughts on this?
> 
> Ray - Perth IMC.
> 


Hi Ray, and everyone else, (CC'd to imc-oceania)

I think this is quite near what I have been thinking about. I was 
thinking along these lines:

Each IMC produces a feed which they want to go into the oceania site. 
This could be just the newswire, or the features, or some other mix, 
simply 'the feed for oceania indy'. I think it would be good if the feed 
produced the full articles, so they could be read while browsing oceania 
indy. This method could also be applied to any other group who has a 
website that produces XML feeds. We could hook up groups that are 
friends with the Oceania indy network. This would make it easier for 
those groups to contribute to indy, simply by publishing as usual to 
their own site, and marking their story for the indymedia feed.

I was thinking all content getting pulled in through the feeds goes to 
the newswire as a story along with anything published directly to the 
site. Trusted users could pull stories through to the newswire headlines 
on the frontpage, and editors would pull them onto the front page. I 
guess some feeds would be more trustable than others and could 
automatically go to a promoted/feature status...

The deviation (evolution?) from traditional indymedia open publishing 
that I would like to take is to have anonymous posts go to an approval 
queue, to be moderated by trusted users. Any disruptive posts would just 
sit in the background and be hidden when a mod comes along. Haven't we 
all had enough of those disruptive posts? I see the constant smattering 
of disrupts, trolls, spam and other fools as a barrier to getting a 
wider readership (hence exposure of the good stories). People turn away 
from indy because of all that shit. If we could finally turn it all 
around and put a barrier up to the flamers, we could have something that 
people like to read, instead of getting smacked in the face with abuse 
every second mouse click. It may halt some of the burnout and 
disillusionment lots of us have felt too.

Cam