The audio of the show was not moderated. HPR does not have any such
guidelines or rules on summaries of the show, its comments, or its reception.
Moderating the comments during a summary did not break any rules, and is IMO
completely at the janitor's discretion.
Whether or not I felt it was appropriate or would have been my choice, it was
not against established rules or policy. I see no harm done.
On 7/4/2025 2:19 PM, Ken Fallon via Hpr wrote:
Hi All,
For a normal show, we expect hosts to mark shows that may be sensitive in
nature to include a "Parental Advisory" as described in "hpr2210 :: On Freedom
of Speech and Censorship" https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2210/
index.html. See "hpr1309 :: Assisted Human Reproduction" https://
hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1309/index.html for an example. Nothing offensive
is in the notes, or summaries but the show includes sufficient warning to give
Parents, Guardians and people likely to be triggered by the topic, time to
turn it off.
During the last months community news recording, I felt the words [mass
maceration / mass suffocation / mass gassing] are not appropriate for reading
out in the Community News, and so limited my comment to the giving the spirit
of the "the fate of male chicks in the egg industry is horrific".
The commenter has objected and feels that I should have read out the comments.
Therefore I am putting the decision to the community.
Does the policy allow for the Janitors to skip sections of the comments while
reading the Community News ?
The policy reads: https://hackerpublicradio.org/about.html#not_moderated states
"The audio of your show will not be moderated." ... We do not vet, edit,
moderate or in any way censor any of the audio you submit, we trust you to do
that. ...Please note that this only relates to the audio you upload. The rest
of the meta-data, are managed by the HPR Community, and may be edited."
My view is that the Community News is a welcoming show, where new hosts come
to get feedback on their episode, and for many who use it to decide which
shows to download. The spirit of the comment was conveyed, and reading it
verbatim would have required wrapping the episode in a "Parental Advisory",
reducing it's download appeal, and as such the community as a whole would suffer.
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