Will Beback wrote:
The aim of creating some kind of policy or guideline
to cover the
issue is to give editors a road map of how to handle this type
of problem to minimize the disruptions that have resulted from
off-site harassment. Simply saying it doesn't exist doesn't help.
No one is claiming the off-site harassment doesn't exist or that off-site
harassement is not disruptive. The observation being made is that this form of
attempting to deal with it, by banning links, appears to be creating more
disruption than it is stopping.