[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

If someone were after you, you would sing a very different tune indeed. We do our best dealing with a difficult situation.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 06:42 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES
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>On 9 Sep 2007 at 20:11:03 +0000, fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
>
>> There has been extensive discussion, although not in a public
>> forum. We have had enough of Judd Bagley and his site. 
>
>You decide things in backroom discussions, like the smoke filled 
>rooms of old, and then you get peeved when people claim that there's 
>a "cabal"?
>
>I think there's a pretty big "we" around who's had enough of a clique 
>getting to decide what things the rest of the peons are allowed to 
>see or talk about.
>
>The whole Bagley / Overstock / Weiss / Slim / etc. tangled mess gives 
>off the stench of a thousand garbage dumps, and when there's that 
>much stink around it's hard to tell for sure who it's coming from... 
>but, as Kelly Martin said in her blog a while back, it exerts a 
>pernicious influence on a lot of things all over Wikipedia, affecting 
>article content decisions everywhere from [[Naked Short Selling]] to 
>[[Lutheranism]], and policy decisions from banning policy to BADSITES 
>and its progeny. It may be time for everybody outside that 
>proverbial smoke filled room, everybody not entangled in the personal 
>connections of the clique, to rise up and take back Wikipedia.
>
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