London Commons

Wednesday July 2, Wednesday July 9 and Thursday July 10 would work for me. Basically, Wednesdays and every-second-Thursday are what work for me. Do any of those dates work for people? Are there any other suggestions?  

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I did it so I have to document it.  Earlier today Jeff P. changed his user name so that he would no longer show up under his real name, but under "Searching for folks interested in develop a movement."

As we normally do with people who sign up under fake names I restricted his account, which also meant removing his moderator privileges.

This was done without a consensus decision at a meeting, which is how we're supposed to remove moderator privileges.

I was going to document it right away, but I felt I had a conflict of interest in the issue.  Instead I contacted other moderators to deal the with issue of Jeff changing his user name.  read more »

Just before the start of the last meeting, Anthony had asked me if it would be possible to display a block on the sidebar of London IMC headlines from its RSS feed.

We already displayed headlines from the London IMC mixed in with headlines from other Indy Media sites.  Also users with accounts have always been able to enable the displaying of London IMC headlines in their account settings. 

Initially I didn't give the London IMC its own block because there were never any new stories.  But as Anthony suggested that's changed now.

The meeting itself was a little chaotic because we didn't have quorum right away and it was a little noisy at the bar, so Anthony's suggestion about the London IMC block didn't make the agenda.  read more »

Some people (including myself) are concerned that this post by this man might be plagiarism.

The issue was discussed in that thread, however I am creating this thread so that we don't get too far off-topic in the original

Jeremy 

Hey Thomas,

- I have a number of problems with the reply you made here. What do you mean by "Beat up"? I had asked him to discontinue derailing the original conversation which is our job as moderators. He completely ignored the request and now his account is limited. Please explain to me how that is beating someone up.

- Which brings me to my second point. By posting your reply in that thread you were also furthering the derailment of the conversation. That was the point of both warnings to Brishen and Richard. I'm confused why your comment, which has nothing to do the original post, would be any different.  read more »

London Commons is powered by user participation and therefore increasing the users should of course be an important goal; indeed from my brief overview strictly as a user this has been taken into consideration from the start.  When you look at how the media and politicians control power over society you realize they do so through some very tentative means.  The reason why activism is so powerful is because there are simply not that many of them and there are a lot of us.  The internet also allows us to compete on a technological basis with the freep et. al. completely free through open source technology.  Anyway, here are some marketting ideas :  read more »

Anyone else feel like an LC meeting is due? I was thinking next Friday at 5 but because that date and time has held back a number of people, including dedicated members, I think a different date and time is in order. Any suggestions? location?

Jeff 

dear londoncommons.net santa claus equivilent,

 my one year on the london commons is coming up in just a little over two weeks... finally. i can't tell you how much i've been waiting for this special day. now, i'll be able to freely use the term ''LC'' rather than the 6-syllabled ''lon-don-com-mons-dot-net''... imagine the sheer time i will save... i'll actually have time for activist initiatives, like flower-bombing secret military installations. 

i've been a good boy this year. i've contributed articles, events, and comments. i've even gotten some people to register. i even have one topic that's gotten almost 1500 reads and there aren't even 1500 people on londoncommons.net. plus, i only belittled someone digitally only once the whole year, and i'm afraid everyone would agree with me that they deserved it.  read more »

As referred to in the minutes from the last meeting, we've updated the procedure for handling accounts with obvious fake names.

Once an account has been flagged as a fake name account by a user moderator (currently Rachel Ayres) it will not be able to post content (like blogs, audio, forum topics etc).  The account will be able to post comments, but those will be held in an approval queue.  If the user changes their user name to their real name their comments will then be approved and they will gain the ability to post content.  If they never change their username, the comments in the queue will never be made public.  read more »

The blogs and front page posts would be much more readable if there were a horizontal -- side-to-side -- line between each post, or some other way of clearly separating the posts.  Without this separation, the posts are too much of a jumble.  Reading the posts is too draining.