On 14/07/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:48:31 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I mean SlimVirgin asked Gracenotes if he supported the policy, he said "case by case is best" and she went to town on the RFA. This has been discussed at length on this list already. I'm sure I recall you participating in the thread at the time.
SV has been the target of egregious harassment from WR, so it's not a surprise, but we should have reined her in.
That's easy to say now, but the problem is not advocacy for WR links - the problem is that no-one is in fact reining in those admins going stupidly overboard in advocating full site bans. The problematic behaviour keeps happening over and over again, and when called on it we see (as we have on this list) that they become abusive to anyone questioning their behaviour, let alone expecting them to acknowledge that it could conceivably be problematic in any way whatsoever.
They are arguably being more disruptive and damaging to the community than the damage from the attack site links itself is.
- d.