On 02/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@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.