On 16/10/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
attempting to deal with it, by banning links, appears to be creating more disruption than it is stopping.
What form of dealing with it do you recommend?
One that doesn't trash article space the way present actions are.
And, to a lesser extent, trash non-article space. (Purging of a single link can get fairly comprehensive, and a link not appropriate for article space, as an unreliable source, may still be useful in a meta-discussion)
The most obvious single step for curbing the stupid uses would be to ensure that whatever method is implemented for dealing with it, it can't be kicked off by one user or group of users screaming "attack site!" without sanity-checking from an external group.