[WikiEN-l] Fwd: IDG press enquiry regarding the HD-DVD controversy

[David Gerard]

On 03/05/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:

> > As I said on the blog:
> > A flashmob of fight-the-power morons are still spamming an allegedly
> > illegal number into every input box on the web. The Wikipedia admins
> > collectively declared "FUCK OFF YOU SPAMMERS." (Some have gone rabid
> > "ZOMG LAWSUIT" and we were getting a pile of oversight requests as
> > well ― I didn't zap, Fred did, until Erik told us not to. Mind you, it
> > nicely short-circuited the idiotic deletion review.) Eventually it was
> > put into the spam filter, because distributed spam is spam.

> I entirely agree the number shouldn't be put in a zillion places in Wikipedia.
> But I get the impression that the loudest objections are about use of the
> number *at all* and that getting rid of number spamming is merely a more
> publically acceptable first step towards getting rid of it period.
> The proper response is to allow the number on Wikipedia, but ban its use
> as spam, not to completely ban it in any form whatsoever.


I agree. But as I said, we don't lose anything by waiting a couple of
weeks. We don't have to finish the article tomorrow.


- d.