On 17/10/2007, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Please do not republish personal attacks.
I don't see how that's in any way responsive to what I said. Are you trying to tell me that someone defending himself by saying "this is an innocuous link", or someone arguing on an attack site policy discussion page, is republishing personal attacks?
Everyone agrees we shouldn't republish personal attacks, and doing so without an obviously exceptional reason is verboten.
Here is our basic argument. Is linking republishing? Fred believes that linking to a personal attack is republishing it, and therefore verboten. Other people, well, don't.
But you can win an argument so much *easier* if you just steamroller ahead and make sure the very thing which is being debated gets defined as your preferred interpretation.