On 5/28/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly. Context is key - and furthermore, banning things on a site-by-site basis is ridiculous. If the entire site is devoted to, say, outing an anonymous individual's identity, then hell yes, kill links to it with fire (unless, say, it becomes notable, in which case, link to it where absolutely necessary). But if there's a site run by a famous chef who also has a vendetta against, say, me, should we ban links to his site because one page of it is devoted to libel against me ...
John, I don't think anyone is arguing that extreme position. It's a strawman. The whole BADSITES policy proposal was a strawman started by a sockpocket. All that's being argued is that sites *devoted* to outing and defamation -- the purpose-built attackers, where it's all or most of what they do -- shouldn't be linked to.