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Indymedia is an open publishing platform for alternative grassroots news. The comments functions allows everybody to correct or add to posts. Quite often, comments are used for quick discussions or rants, in a way that would be more suited for a discussion forum like libcom or urban75. Some comments seem to be designed to discourage, disinform and undermine activists. Constructive additions that correct or add to articles often get lost in wider debates. Some regional collectives have found it difficult to develop a local news site when articles immediately get hit with large numbers of bad comments.

To address this problem, we have introduced a feature that allows imc uk site admins to promote comments to "additions". A comment can now be manually "promoted" to an addition when it adds information or thoughtful criticism. We hope that displaying constructive and focussed comments underneath the articles will add to the quality of imc uk news. Additions will be displayed with their full text at the end of each posting. The titles of all other comments will be listed after the additions. Clicking on a title displays that comment along with all the others.

Discriminatory or disruptive comments will continue to be hidden according to our editorial guidelines. From now on comments that are hidden will be accessible in the same manner that hidden articles are.

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Display the following 35 comments

Good idea — DB
Agree But — Observer
Even better... — Radjel
good move — -@-
Selective reading — Sam
NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE — Digital Future
Explanations on hiding — vi
not a good idea — keith
Good move IMC — Auntie
Good work people — a!
predictible — crystal ball
Funny — seed
I support the changes — anon
Excellent News — Caz
nice one. — activist
good job! — lovenrage
Editable comments — Herby Spiral
On balance, an improvement — Zorro
How do we know... — Fluff
" It's private property" — im fan
Disinformation — Auntie
good work — mayler
More examples — David
Bristol 2 — Fluff
hoorah hoorah - good move techies — blatherer
I Could Be Wrong But.... — Paranoid Pete
disappointed so far — bugle
twilight et al — anon
Bristol — Spartacus
mis-quote — Fluff
I agree — Mike
Problem with website — z
Silly fluff and others — Zaskar
Pitty it wasn't done earlier — James
people being real and not anonymous would help, good idea tho — m.caroline F.T.S.

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