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The decline and fall

Mark - former UK Indy mod | 24.11.2011 14:26 | Indymedia

An excellent article by an activist was hidden by Indymedia moderator 'freethepeeps' because he did not like the content (attacks on Jews).

The article is  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/11/489055.html?c=all

The excuse ftp used to hide the original post was "disruptive user'. I have checked the Indy archive and I can't see that this poster has ever posted before so he/she can't be disruptive. I then did a quick Google check and found the story to be true so we are faced with age old problem on Indy UK that of clear antisemitism by one particular mod who has a history of hiding posts that he does not like.

FTP will of course hide this post, he will block the email to the Moderation List I have sent to ensure it is not on the public record and he will bully any other Mod that disagrees with his actions.

More than any other person FTP has damaged the Indy UK site and contributed to its decline in readership. They no longer publish the number of unique visitors to the site but as a former mod I can still see them and the decline is shocking. Between 2007 during the sickening Atzmon debacle and now the number of average daily unique visitors fell from 3476 to 943 and the 'click through' (meaning they read more than one story) fell from 5 to 2. This decline is continuing and during the last meeting of my regional collective we predicted that the UK site here will effectively cease to exist (unique visitors below 5 a day) by the Winter of 2012.

Mark - former UK Indy mod
- Homepage: www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/11/489055.html?c=all

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A happy ending

24.11.2011 14:40

Why don't you just go out and fall under a bus Mark. You left the collective because you wanted to see Indy go in a direction that myself and the other senior mods did not so don't sit there bitching from the sidelines of the internet. Get back to your own tiny little indymedia site and play there.

ftp adds:
1) This post isn't by me - I'm unaware of any former mod called Mark
2) There are no 'senior mods' at Indymedia uk

ftp

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no great surprise

24.11.2011 14:43

this site has been going downhill for some time and the url theft was the last straw for a lot of people

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Senior mods and other amusement

24.11.2011 16:20

"There are no 'senior mods' at Indymedia uk"

That's very funny Roy and if only that were true. How about 'super user' status giving you the ability to create and delete other admins, 'root access' to the server, control of the URL 'point at' or admin rights over the key mailing lists, knowledge of the server passwords ?

I was amused to see you have now decided you don't know me. I will remind you of that when we meet on the 4th. Perhaps we could get someone to take a picture of us together and post it here, what do you think ?

Mark - former UK Indy mod

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