[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[William Pietri]

Slim Virgin wrote:
> Risker, the situation was that a bunch of admins had been removing
> links to attack sites for about 18 months. Not in any kind of
> systematic way (i.e. not hunting them down so far as I know), but just
> removing them if they noticed one. That was the de facto policy.
> That's how policy develops, by admins doing things. It just wasn't
> written down anywhere.
>   

I think that's generally how policy develops. But I think this policy is 
fundamentally different, because it makes itself nearly invisible. How 
can the rest of us fairly judge or properly adopt an unwritten policy 
that we can't see the effects of?

Thanks,

William