portland indymedia editorial policy

Articles posted to the site go straight to the newswire and are not passed through an editorial board or approval process. Once articles and media are on the site, they may be hidden according to the editorial policy. The content of posts is never edited though sometimes formatting is corrected (someone forgot to check html checkbox, or made html errors etc).

portland indymedia worker drones reserve the right to hide posts that:

1. advocate criminal activity indicating a specific time, place and/or manner
2. are duplicate posts (the most recent remaining on the newswire)
3. are obviously libelous or slanderous
4. interfere with the technical functionality of the website
5. are intended to disrupt the site
6. are empty posts (no content or gibberish)
7. are commercial advertisements
8. promote racism, homophobia, sexism, or other discrimination.
9. are obviously incorrect or misleading, including attempts to spread dis-information
10. are reposted from corporate media outlets

For an explanation of general guidelines for the creation of feature stories (center column) see the what are features? page.

Please contact the editorial listserve to call attention to newswire articles that should/could be featured or to comment about the editorial policy.

Articles that are hidden, whether duplicate, disruptive, advertisement etc., are collected on the compost page. The compost page is linked from the bottom of the newswire on the front page.

If you wish to comment on the ideas in a particular post, use the "add a comment on this article" link at the bottom of that article. The free-wheeling discussions that take place through such comments are another interactive feature of the indymedia website.

Stories contributed to this site are free for non-profit re-use. Copyleft is a central tenet of indymedia. For more information, check out www.opencontent.org. If you don't want your story to fall under copyleft, please give your copyright conditions in the summary on the publish page.

• please post news items only; post your comments after existing articles.
• please post just one copy of your story. it may take a while for media to show up, so please be patient.
• if you want to post multiple stories from other sites, please summarize and link them in one article rather than posting many articles one after the other which push other articles off the front page.
• For more information on posting, see how-to publish

For more information on pdx indy, see the about portland indymedia page. For help with HTML see the HTML guide.