On 7/3/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
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On 7/2/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
You got it. BADSITES was nothing but provocation.
An attempt to overturn the policy it supposedly supported by generalizing.
It worked on the principle that the best way to get rid of a bad law
is to enforce it.
I'll never accept linking to personal attacks on Wikipedians. I don't care how
futile it is considered to be or how bad such "censorship" is. And it a site
makes a regular business of attacking Wikipedians, not criticizing, but attacking, I will
oppose linking to the site at all. I can see only good coming out of supporting other
editors and only harm coming out of tolerating their humiliation.
Exactly right.
I want to clarify that when I wrote above that the BADSITES proposal
worked on the principle that the best way to get rid of a bad law is
to enforce it, I meant that this was the mindset of the proposer, not
that I agreed with it. It seems to have been a strawman proposal,
intended only to cause arguments, and it was singularly successful in
that regard.