John Tex wrote: [...]
Attempting to stifle advocacy is harmful to the consensus building process and it is harmful to the project. If we try to prohibit it, it will just be taken off-wiki, which would be a huge shame.
It already happened for the JP cartoon poll:
http://www.dartblog.com/data/004950.html http://thelittlegreenblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/more-on-danish-cartoons.html http://penumbra604.livejournal.com/25659.html
... and probably many more.