MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
On 1/22/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
- Myspace blogs were recently added to the spam blacklist by Raul per
request of Jimbo, although no one else seems to know why, how, or per what rationale. I won't pretend to know what Jimbo's been up to past not having edited Wikipedia since the is-it-or-is-it-not-a decree, but perhaps some more explanation on this would be worthwhile? Seems like we're blocking a shitload of otherwise worthwhile primary source material for many of our articles for the sake of...well...nothing. Meanwhile, a blog ''not'' hosted on MySpace is still a-okay, which is patently absurd on its face. I'm wondering what the thought process was on this, since no one else seems to want to chime in.
Other blogs aren't a-okay, but it's simply not possible to block all blogs. Personally, I will allow blogs as sources when its contents can clearly be attributed to a notable individual. 99% of MySpace members isn't remotely notable at all.
The point is that many MySpace blogs *are* hosted by notable individuals, which is what makes the blanked technical-level blocking (as opposed to editor-level exercise of judgment) problematic. And also note that we're not talking about *sources*, but *external links*. While I agree that rarely is a blog a good source for anything, it seems absurd to me that the blog of Professor X is not a suitable external link from the page [[Professor X]].
-Mark