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Indymedia Ireland's Editorial GuidelinesIndymedia Ireland is built on the foundation of an open and democratic newswire. We want to see and hear real stories, news, and opinions from users of the site around the country. Anybody can post a story, or a comment on a story to Indymedia. While we struggle to maintain the newswire as a completely open forum we do monitor it and remove posts.
In general, posts may be removed for any of the following reasons:
- Comments, not news. If there is a recently published story on the same topic as, or one closely related to your post, then it
should be published as a comment on the existing story. Comments belong
with the story being discussed - to have your say in response to a story on the site, use the "add your comments" link at the bottom of each story
- Duplicate posts. Make sure you've read the newswire and that
the story doesn't appear there already. Also make sure that you haven't
posted the same comment on multiple stories
- Infactual or obviously false posts. The onus is on the author to check and confirm facts - if a clear factual error is brought
to our attention it will be removed.
- Libelous or slanderous posts. Choose your language
carefully. Do not make allegations against named individuals unless you
can substantiate them. Posts which contain personal
abuse against named individuals, rather than against their arguments or
their political affiliation, will be removed without delay,
particularly if those individuals are not public figures. 'Play the ball, not the player'.
- Discriminatory or hateful posts. Posts that contain
explicitly racist, sexist or homophobic views will be removed. We don't
oppose free speech for people with hateful views, we're just not going
to provide them with a platform for distributing those views.
- Advertising or other inappropriate content. Advertising of commercial products or services, particularly when they are sold on a for-profit basis.
- Cross-posting to multiple IMCs. Posts that are available
elsewhere on the Indymedia network (on at least two other IMCs) shall
be deleted, although in cases where the article is particularly
relevant to Irish readers, it may be allowed to remain at the
discretion of the editorial collective.
- Articles which have no News Content. Although we aim to have a broad tolerance for all types of news postings, there are limits. In
particular, the following types of article are not considered to be news:
- Incomprehensible 'gobbledygook' postings
- Asking of questions - particular or general questions without any other content - e.g. this type of thing: "Anyone know when X is on?" or "What do you think of YYY policy on ZZZZ?"
- Articles which consist entirely of unsubstantiated opinions or personal musings
without any supporting evidence or other content. For example : 'I think Fianna Fail are criminals'
- Petitions
- Impersonation. Articles or comments which impersonate other indymedia users by adoption of their names or regular pseudonyms
- Fascists. All content expressing fascist views or written by active fascists, or expressing revisionist / holocaust denial
positions, or linking to a fascist site. We will not provide a platform for fascist recruitment
- Trolling. Comments which consist entirely of abuse towards any group, individual, or article without attempting to situate this in
the context of the particular article or debate arising out of that article. So for example, a comment which simply says: "the Popular Front of Judea are wankers" will be deleted, while a comment that says: "The fact that the PFJ have refused this offer of an alliance shows them to
be hypocritical wankers in the light of what they have said before", might remain
- Continuing debates across multiple articles. Indymedia is
not a bulletin board. All comments should directly relate to the
article or preceding comments. Users should refrain from constantly
bringing up points from previous threads, unless they have a close
relevance to the new article. Users should also note that repetitive
demands of another user to answer a particular question or point is a
reason for deletion especially when it occurs across multiple threads.
- Persistent Abuse. Users who persistently refuse to abide by IMC policy are liable to have any and all of their contributions removed
- Cut and pastes. Posts that are publicly available elsewhere
on the internet, or in the mainstream media. We do realise, however,
that there can sometimes by a strong case for articles published
elsewhere to be brought to the attention of IMC readers. In these
cases, we ask contributors to write an original introduction to the
article, highlighting its relevance to Irish indymedia readers and
include a link to the article. Users can also choose post a short note
and a link in the Media Updates link at the top of the newswire. In
particular, articles that consist of an original introduction and
contain several links to articles containing background information
stand a good chance of being made into front-page features
- Comments on editorial policy. Users can appeal for or against deletions by contacting the editors using the 'Contact Us'
link at the top of the front page. Editorial actions are debated on the
editorial list and users can join the list and join in the frequent
debates on deletions there. Commentary on IMC Ireland editorial policy
on the newswire will be removed
- Comments that refer to Deleted Posts. Comments referring to something that a user can't see as it has been deleted will also be removed.
A record of all editorial actions, which editor performed the action and the reason for it are sent to the newswire mailing list
which anybody can join. So if you want to keep an eye on the evil
censorships of the imc-cabal, you know what to do. Subscribing to this
list means you will see all articles and comments which have been
hidden and the reason why they were hidden. After subscribing, you can
then go through the archives of the list to see all past editorial actions.
Guidelines are subject to constant review by the editorial list.
If you think that these guidelines are not being enforced (or are being
abused) join the editorial list and discuss it there. If you think an
article that you have posted has been unfairly deleted, the editorial
list is the place to bring it up but make sure that you have read and
understood the editorial policy beforehand. As with the newsire list,
you can go through the archives
to see why and how these guidelines were formulated. This list is also
used to put together the front page features. If you'd rather not
subscribe to the editorial list, you can just use the contact form
to send a message to the editors making sure to provide your email
address so that you can be CCed on all emails regarding the query.
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If you want to change that for your story, please give your
conditions in the summary.
After stories have been published, they may be edited, linked or
even deleted by the collective running this site. Please read our privacy and disclaimer
statements.
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