Watching Them Watching Us

Please don't select a region unless your article has a specific (and obvious) link to that region. It abuses the system and creates extra work for volunteer admins (we have to go through and manually untick the region, as I've done with this article).

VOTV/Undercurrents: This appears to be the second time this month you have ticked 'Oxford' on an article with no obvious specific link to Oxford or the surrounding area:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2009/02/422333.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2009/02/422750.html

If it carries on happening, we'll assume it's deliberate "region spamming" and future articles which are inappropriately sent to regions may be hidden altogether under the guidelines:

"Disruptive: Contributions by individuals who habitually publish above mentioned discouraged content. Posts where topical or regional selections disrupts the utility of the sub pages (ie spamming regional and topic selections)."

Cheers

what to do if it's an event that is national, eg camp for climate action? You might well say that it should be just UK, but we can only assume (correct us if you like?) that many people just look on their regional IMC and not the UK one, therefore for big national events the temptation would be to tick each region too. For regional events, again, there might be a whole load of ticks in a smilar way seemingly appropritate, in eg the north or south of England.

I guess they are ticking Oxford because that's where they used to be based?

How does ticking one region amount to "spamming" exactly? What is this unprovoked attack? Have you nothing better to do?

Hamish is from Oxford right?

You (imcer) should know this, so if Hamish is browsing his local site and clicks "publish" he will get a form with Oxford pre-filled in -- what is the problem?

If Oxford was a stand-alone site would you ban him from publishing on it because not all his posts are Oxford specific?

Is this the real agenda behind the push for more local IMC sites -- local news for local people and anything more get's removed and being non-local?

You tick one regional site for a posting *twice* in one month and you are now threatened with being banned from the IMC site altogether? And IMC volunteers now spend their time checking which people/groups tick which regional sites and how often? This cannot be a serious post. Who put this up?