Quoting Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:49:27 -0500, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
Just because the outcome is the same doesn't mean the reasoning for doing so was the same. Crappy links are deleted for all sorts of reasons, mostly because they're crappy, even if they would also have been deleted under that strawman BADSITES policy.
I can't help feeling this was the main aim of that whole strawman: to make it harder to remove crappy links *because they are crappy*. The main site active in this is, after all, spectacularly crappy.
A big issue here is what do you mean by crappy? We have a tremendous problem with spam and other genuine crap. But by crappy do we mean links that otherwise meet WP:EL and would be included but for the fact that the people who write them are assholes who attack Wikipedians? Then we have a problem.