[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Steve Summit]

Fred Bauder wrote:
>[William Pietri wrote:]
>> The question I keep asking myself about these proposals is: Who does it 
>> serve? Delinking shock sites serves our readers. Delinking sites that we 
>> don't like because of how they treat us most obviously serves ourselves 
>> at the expense of our readers. Your argument that it also has a subtle, 
>> long-term effect on our ability to serve readers is interesting, but 
>> unproven, and could just as well have the opposite effect.
>
> You never seem to understand the issue. One suspects your sustained
> mischaracterization of the issue is not an accident.

Fred, this is unworthy of you.
Just the same might be said about you.

> Harassment is attacks directed at our users. We support our users
> by minimizing the degree of harassment they are exposed to.

Everyone in this debate understands this goal perfectly,
exhaustingly well.  What's debated is:

1. whether the attempt to minimize down to zero is worth the cost, and
2. whether removing links truly minimizes exposure in all cases.

These are difficult questions.  You have your view of the
tradeoffs which you're comfortable with, but others legitimately
have different views.