alt Hacker News> but this is not how a public blacklist should be maintained.
Cry about it.
There's nothing in that repo that even pretends to be flawless, impartial or anything else. The sheer amount of mental denial of service that having to deal with SEO slopshitters opening issues saying that they promise their substack is totally written by hand makes this an impossible task.
Ban first, ask questions later. If you find that some rules are unfair, edit them yourself, for your personal usage.
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Problem is if this becomes popular and people being lazy assume blocked site means slop without checking, then the repo has a lot of power to break innocent sites.
I don't have an answer because as you say with power comes people wrangling over power. And claw sloperators can be way more persistent!
I agree.
I find it a bit ironic that this site regularly talks about banning whole countries and IP ranges on our servers, then acts shocked when users do the same. The fact that somebody went to the effort to create and share this shows how poorly the public sees the web.
The reality we face is "Check your AdBlocker" is the new "Check your spam folder" and we should adjust accordingly.