On 4/14/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
There have been people who had visits from the police or got passed on promotions, fired or failed to get a job in the first place because of harrasment. I don't call that overrated. It has real world repercussions, but the harrassers hardly ever get caught.
About that last line: Would blatantly censoring harrasment be a bad thing? We are already censoring illegal activities. It may be hard to prove, but harrasment/libel is just as illegal especially if it has effects on the harrased person.
Mgm
Apparently, the case I thought I saw about this on either the mailing list or WP:ANI is untraceable. Still, I believe we should prevent onwiki harrasment rather than cure it after the fact. Linking to problematic, libellous material offwiki should be allowed but only in a few circumstances.
Mgm