[Imc-sydney] What is Flame Bait?

[Cameron Gregg]

Cameron Gregg wrote:
> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
> 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


Needless to say, I haven't always done this, I sometimes post an angry 
response to idiots/morons/fascists. so yeah, nobody is perfect...

Cam