I know this is petering out as a conversation, but I just had one semantic question for the BADSITES supporters, on something that's perplexed me. In the Making Light blog/Will Beback scenario, it was supported not linking back to Hayden's blog because Beback's alleged name was in the comments section of one post. It was not even a focus of the website; it was literally several sentences buried in a subpage.
If people began to salt 'names' throughout other notably accepted web sites or comments sections of other acceptable to link to sites, would they all become unacceptable to link to unless they were all scrubbed? Anyone could poison any website by doing this almost trivially. An hour on a message board, an hour travelling the major/notable blogosphere, even WP:RS news sites that allow Googleable/public comments on stories (ABC News, for example), Amazon reviews, and so on. Would any of them be then unlinkable unless all references to the alleged names of whatever editors were removed?
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com