2008/9/6 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
I doubt that deleted stuff is libelous.
Libelous material is oversighted, not AfD'd which is what the mentioned site
is archiving.
Oh, goodness, no.
Oversighted material is quite bad; not all quite bad material is
oversighted. A fair proportion of CSD is gutter abuse of the "might be
libellous if it wasn't so stupid" form (kids explaining how their
favourite teacher has a great liking for his pet dog, etc) and no-one
bothers oversighting that; just delete and it's gone.
AFDs, likewise; if there's sensitive personal information, that might
get oversighted; if it's a libellous hatchet job that's going to get
deleted anyway, well, it'll just get deleted.
It would solve this disccusion rather neatly if all "bad deletions"
were oversighted - indeed, the proposal here is basically for
something conceptually like that to happen, with some way of
differentially deleting "good but not for here" and "actively bad" -
but it's certainly not the way it currently happens.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk