On 5/28/07, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree with Slim that this was started by someone who had some pretty murky ulterior motives; I'll take her word that it was a sock. The question is how to stanch the bad practices that are flowing from it.
The most straightforward way would be to mark BADSITES as either rejected or historic, and to remove the disputed section in the current policy. (That takes care of the messy attempt made by DennyColt.) As far as I can tell, there was absolutely no objection to the idea of including a statement in the current NPA policy supporting the removal of any links where the content of the link met the definition of a personal attack, regardless of the origin of the content.
The policy should describe what admins actually do. Most admins that I'm aware of remove these links when they see them, not in a systematic way, but if they happen to find one. There are very few situations where they're added legitimately.
The way to defeat the troll is probably to stop talking about the issue, because that's what he wanted. We have an ArbCom ruling, and we have admins who can implement it sensibly. If anyone sees a silly implementation of it, please e-mail that admin and put them straight. End of story.