[Imc-sydney] What is Flame Bait?

[Cameron Gregg]

diet simon wrote:
> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
> Hallo All,
> 
> Maybe I'm naive, or haven't slept enough last night, or whatever, but 
> the whole IndyMedia movement is driven by anger, our collective anger at 
> the pigs that are fucking up our world, so what's wrong with "an angry 
> response"?
> 
> Sometimes someone posts something that just gets your goat so badly you 
> need to have a go at them personally.
> 
> If someone wrote here that the Burmese junta were good blokes or that 
> Bush was doing the right thing or that the Nazis were OK or that Howard 
> and his gangsters were decent men and women I'd want to "flame-bait" the 
> person writing that.
> 
> I wouldn't want their  kind of writing appearing here, but where do you 
> draw the censoring line? I can't stand censorship, either.
> 


Hide anything of the sort. Any post advocating support for fascist 
regimes or authoritarian tendencies should just be hidden, otherwise, as 
you say, someone bites, and the whole thread ends up in flame war. Which 
is not useful at all. Just remove it. Let indymedia be a place where 
ideas independent of the mainstream (that is, the authoritarian norm) 
are voiced.

As for drawing the line, there is no clear line. Each post should be 
judged on its own. There will be exceptions, as there always is in life. 
If you think it needs hiding, hide it. If the rest of the collective 
disagree, we can discuss it and put it back up if there is overwhelming 
dissent.

Cam