[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

David Levy lifeisunfair at gmail.com
Sun May 9 01:56:14 UTC 2010


Anthony wrote:

> Jimbo shouldn't be blamed for the actions of CommonsDelinkerBot.  For those
> particular deletions in which he exercised poor judgment, sure.  For
> wheel-warring over some of those instances, absolutely.  But ultimately, his
> actions (as opposed to the actions which were caused by the maintainer of
> CommonsDelinkerBot), are easily undone, at least from a technical
> standpoint.

As noted, the problem extends beyond the images delinked by the
CommonsDelinker bot.

In fact, I would argue that the bot actually mitigates the damage by
preemptively delinking images via an identifiable account (thereby
making the removals easier to detect and revert).

David Levy




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