Will Beback wrote:
The aim of creating some kind of policy or guideline to cover the issue is to give editors a road map of how to handle this type of problem to minimize the disruptions that have resulted from off-site harassment. Simply saying it doesn't exist doesn't help.
No one is claiming the off-site harassment doesn't exist or that off-site harassement is not disruptive. The observation being made is that this form of attempting to deal with it, by banning links, appears to be creating more disruption than it is stopping.