On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Well, I guess I see your point. I don't think we
should let spammers
dictate the content of our articles for any amount of time (*), but a
month isn't all that long in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah. The "wait" solution is bolstered by its clear effectiveness on
[[Brian Peppers]] - after a year, it was obvious "oh, he's not really
notable after all." Just some poor bugger with a weird condition.
(*) And that's the point I'm bringing up to my
question about what
would we do if spammers decided to add "George Bush" to every single
page. I'm not saying I'm going to do it, although I suppose I would
support others doing it if it gets them to rethink this spam blacklist
policy.
It's an immediate developer response to a distributed spam attack. I
still don't see what's intrinsically wrong with having done this in
the situation.
(I'd be putting the number all over the blog if it wasn't hosted in
the cursed nation of America by friends.)
- d.