On 4/14/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)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