Quoting Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com:
William Pietri wrote:
...the question of external links in other spaces would yield to a similar approach, but it's not as directly analogous.
At the risk of prolonging a discussion that's already rather egregiously long in the tooth, what do people think about those? One of the larger objections to BADSITES and its resurrection in WP:NPA#EL concerned the prohibition of links to attack sites even in talk and project spaces, even as part of sober discussion of the alleged personal attacks. Is there still any sentiment to keep trying to ban those kinds of links?
I have more sympathy with such bans because they don't violate NPOV or diminish article content. I think such bans are generally bad ideas since we can just remove any form of trolling without any linking policy. But a bad idea is not nearly as problematic as one that actively harms the encyclopedia.