[WikiEN-l] BADSITES redux

[jayjg]

On Nov 21, 2007 8:02 PM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> What we truly do not need -- which BADSITES promoted, but which
> some people keep promoting under various guises -- is the notion
> that off-wiki harassment of a Wikipedia editor is such an
> uber-mortal sin that we should summarily ban all links to the
> harassing page and/or the harassing site and/or sites that link
> to the harassing page or the harassing site.  These extreme
> sanctions, which involve trampling on various other cherished
> Wikipedia policies and ideals, are what people were so upset
> about with BADSITES.  But the fact that people keep taking about
> (and exercising) similarly extreme sanctions is why BADSITES,
> despite protestations to the contrary, is still alive, whether
> under that name or some other.
>
> The defenders of the policies-they-don't-want-called-BADSITES
> keep claiming that their policies are not BADSITES, and that
> BADSITES is dead, and that stubborn insistence on debating
> BADSITES is distracting from the real work at hand.

Who on earth are you talking about here? I hope not me; I was never
involved in the original BADSITES strawman (never once made an edit to
the page or Talk: page), nor have I been involved in any of its
subsequent alleged re-incarnations, variations, alternatives, etc. Is
there someone in particular you are referring to?