Quoting Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com:
joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
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.
What form of dealing with it do you recommend?
W.
The same thing we've done for a long time with no problem. When someone links to something in an attempt to troll, block them and if necessary remove their comment just as one would remove a trolling remark. This applies to all forms of trolling and we don't need a special policy for it. But this shouldn't modifying what links are in article space or what links are used in good-faith discussions.