G'day Guy,
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:38:51 -0400, "David Goodman" dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
But you can't stop people from knowing; I would never have paid the least attention for it until I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
Ever heard the old saying "don't shit on your own doorstep"? That's the point. Let them whine to their hearts' content, but we are under no obligation to assist them and anyone who stirs up drama by insisting on doing so is not really helping.
There is a gap --- a big gap --- between not wanting to assist WR and its inbred cousins, and outright flat-banning links to it under any circumstances. If you were of an over-dramatic bent --- and I know we both are --- you might say it was the distance between freedom and comfort.
If someone links to WR with the obvious intent of trying to harass, offend, insult, other Wikipedians, then we're well-equipped to deal with that.
If someone removes links to WR --- or any other site dubbed an "attack site", including that well-known haven of trolls, Making Light --- because they're too fucking stupid to recognise the subtlety of the situation even if you hit them over the head with a sledgehammer with the word "subtle" engraved on its face, then we should be well-equipped to deal with that, too.
Hint: it wouldn't be by buying them chocolates and saying, "Well done, cobber. Now if only those trolls didn't keep disagreeing with you."