You are selling the animation, which falls under the guidelines of editorial control. So if you you were extra nice you could do an animation and not sell it.

no cost anywhere - this stuff is free and fairly harmless. who's doing this kind of stuff? and who makes the decision?

how can you claim that's anything to do with advertising. it's just a posting. No PC problems so what is it about?

You post a non-news link and that's it.

And you do this several times. If you're going to post something how about a description of what it is? An explanation about it, you know, information.

this animation is da shit...why is this guy getting abuse for posting this? leave im alone.

the site isn't something like an add at all actually! more like a cartoon... we leave latuff's cartoons alone so why don't we leave this one? who took it down? if no one objects the next 24 hrs i'll make it visible again.

Hi,

I think this goes to the heart of debate about IndyMedia and what is news or not news or junk etc.

It's obvious it's not news. It's also obviously not advertising a corporate product, or a political party. It is creative work.

So is creative work, poems and cartoons allowable on indymedia - it certainly seems so by what's been allowed to stay on the site in the past.

Then as another person has stated the post was short of details and I think this is an important point. Just posting a link to another site with no explanation, or the sort of 'Go on clich the link' type of exclamation, is to be discouraged. That said there has to be a balance between saying nothing and copying whole websites onto the IndyMedia servers (which could be possible). I think this is what the outline box is for when posting. People should give an outline and maybe an extract of what it is they are linking to, it's a matter of courtesy and of good practice.