[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan at tobias.name>:

> On 15 Oct 2007 at 14:34:44 -0700, Will Beback
> <will.beback.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Doing so won't punish those sites, or even make them stop the
>> harassment, but it will reduce the disruption to Wikipedia that those
>> sites cause. If there's a better way to do that then please suggest it.
>
> The way I see it, there has been vastly more disruption to Wikipedia
> coming from attempts to suppress links to sites than has ever
> occurred by the presence of such links.
>
This is my impression as well. If someone is trolling with a specific 
link then
we can block that person. However attempts to impose BADSITES has primarily
resulted in the loss of much good editing and hurt feelings.