[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Will Beback]

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> 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.
>   
It's even worse if folks are saying that it does exist but that we 
shouldn't do anything about it. Again, I think that having a clear 
policy with bright lines will help us reduce the disruption caused by 
people who are trying to cause disruption by engaging in inappropriate 
harassment.

The "other forms" of dealing with the solution include private 
diplomacy, an ArbCom-maintained blacklist, and similar non-transparent 
procedures. Personally, I think a clear policy is better, but if we 
can't form one then then we'll have to continue to handle these issues 
on an ad hoc basis, even though those tends to be the most disruptive.

W