Monday, June 26, 2006
Vancouver is Back
Vancouver Indymedia is back.
Scrolling in reverse order, it got off to a great start with no fewer than four pages of predominantly recycled anti-Bush articles before it reverted to an excess of of one-sided articles about the evils of Israel.
One asks whether it is "Vancouver Indymedia or Middle East Indymedia?"
I'm not the only one who's noticed:
If you view their "all-time popular content" you will notice the most reads any of the articles have had (at the time of posting this) is 465, for the "welcome to the new Vancouver Indymedia site" post. This high figure is largely from that post remaining on the front page "most popular" sidebar. Otherwise, it is all downhill from there and I am pleased to note this site records more readers.
I'm sure they'll get a bit of traffic from this site.
Who could resist stories about Secret electronic mind control technology or this cryptic piece (repeated several times) which makes me suspect someone is writing a spam-bot for Indymedia. Can't imagine why they'd bother, there's a perfectly good group of human spammers to keep it irrelevant and boring as hell.
Scrolling in reverse order, it got off to a great start with no fewer than four pages of predominantly recycled anti-Bush articles before it reverted to an excess of of one-sided articles about the evils of Israel.
One asks whether it is "Vancouver Indymedia or Middle East Indymedia?"
After being abroad for several months I was surprised to see that BC Indymedia was no more. But the reversion back to Vancouver Indymedia seems like a good move if the folks running it are based there. The new system seems interesting too.Can't imagine why... This is followed by a series of replies concerning Zionist control of the media. Gee, how original.
But I am sad to see that it has fast become Middle East Indymedia once again. What the fuck!?!
Is there nothing of consequence going on in Vancouver, the lower mainland, BC or other occupied territories in Canada? Does everything of importance hinge upon the happenings in the Middle East? Is there nowhere else to carry on with these ceaseless back and forth debates?
I understand that the site is not running on all cylinders yet but judging by what I have seen in scanning the postings something must be done to limit the ability of a few people to monopolize the newswire.
I am sick to fucking death of these postings.
I'm not the only one who's noticed:
I just did a quick count of the latest ten pages of stories, and 59 out of 101 come from math2112, sometimes in spurts of six or eight in a row. With the possible exception of nessie's sandbox, I know of no other IMC so overwhelmed by the content of one poster.It sure is... Vancouver looks like another one they can be proud of.
But it's the nature of Indymedia that any decisions on what to do are in the hand of the local collective.
If you view their "all-time popular content" you will notice the most reads any of the articles have had (at the time of posting this) is 465, for the "welcome to the new Vancouver Indymedia site" post. This high figure is largely from that post remaining on the front page "most popular" sidebar. Otherwise, it is all downhill from there and I am pleased to note this site records more readers.
I'm sure they'll get a bit of traffic from this site.
Who could resist stories about Secret electronic mind control technology or this cryptic piece (repeated several times) which makes me suspect someone is writing a spam-bot for Indymedia. Can't imagine why they'd bother, there's a perfectly good group of human spammers to keep it irrelevant and boring as hell.
