h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php

Always good to read his take on things.

"As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein?"

Very nice, Jim, good find. Now, do you think i should yikes that post? It seems to be a post about the Iraq Conflict...

Tango

*wry smile*

Did you see him onstage recently Jim: A869420

I wish I had. His recent book , 'Stupid White Men' is great.

Michael Moore is magnificent, and that letter is a classic.

Stupid White Men was key reading for one of my politics lectures last week, you know.

It was a good show. Funny in the first half, serious and hard-hitting in the second half. He pointed out that the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented if the 'comfortable-class' passengers had been more defensive - which was brave (though he was careful not to blame the passengers for the attack), and attacked the American lifestyle.

hmm, a nice precedent i think on what might be ok to post under the new policy...

thanks Jim


*watching to see what happens*

I've been trying to decide whether to yikes that, just to see what happens... There are links to some complaints going around about a certain italics PS having a broken link, and yikes of it being completely (and prehaps automatically) ignored.

Tango

personally i feel it is most helpful at the moment to yikes only the things i would have before the new policy. and to leave anything about the war unyikesed unless it breaches other house rules. that way we will get a sense of the parameters of what we are going to be able to discuss.

its already quire interesting to see which posts are being left when others on the same thread are being removed.

that's what i'm doing at the moment, on principle as it were.

Tango

you know, i've never actually yiokes'd anything on hootoo. I have on the 606 message boards, but never here.

"a certain italics PS having a broken link, and yikes of it being completely (and prehaps automatically) ignored."


We haven't seen any complaints about Editors' Personal Spaces, can you let me know which one Tango?

I'm not Tango (obviously!) but I assume the page in question is U281 (Abi's) which still has a faulty link to BBC7. I don't think I've seen it explicitly mentioned in h2g2 conversations (the previous remark on this thread would be an implicit one). So those could have meant another page.

Oh - that used to link direct to the radio player so you instantly got BBC 7's output.

I will amend it now.

Thanks SEF

Ahh I had an extra http:// in there. All fixed now.

Though it would be nice if I had been told.

In response to post 8 - "hmm, a nice precedent i think on what might be ok to post under the new policy..."

We've considered all the Postings that we've seen very carefully. Borderline ones we are leaving unless a complaint comes in.

"Though it would be nice if I had been told"
That's the whole point, Abi. If the complaints system had been working then surely you would have been told. This clearly predates the current situation by the way.

If posts 8 and 9 are referring to my post 7, it wasn't about the war... (nor was post 1).

Is BBC 7 good then?

The system does work - the subject of broken links came up after we started peer Moderation, and we decided that broken links would not be failed as a matter of course. Mainly because we couldn't reasonably expect them all to be complained about.

We only fail ones that are likely to be taken over by porn sites - ie dead domain names rather than mis-typed links.

We didn't realise that it was Abi's space when we checked the emails because we don't recognise A numbers in the way we recognise U numbers, otherwise we would have fixed it. We do feel that Editors shouldn't have broken links on their Personal Spaces and Abi's rather embarrassed about it. It's a shame no-one thought to post to her Personal Space.