On 23/01/2009, at 1:34 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
Imagine a disgruntled DBA who decides that he's going to setup
CouchDB Sucks and
from that site he's doing to create one new website per day, each
one using a
subdomain and listing a new reason why CouchDB does, in fact, suck.
Because he's
using CouchDB for the website he justifies the addition of one new
link per day
to the links page. Each link goes to a different subdomain of
CouchDB Sucks. How
do we handle this? It's clear something is wrong here. Technically
he meets our
linking policy, but he's abusing our trust. The possibilities are
endless.
I don't think that's an ethical decision. You could have a policy of
not allowing effectively duplicate links.
And for every way it can be abused, I suspect there is a technical
requirement that can be applied using strictly technical judgement. By
which I mean we could find a technical reason - which isn't the same
as inventing a technical reason. And if there was no technical reason,
then so be it. I'll die by the sword.
Antony Blakey
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