Getting from five recommendations to four: bury social networking?

• Shrug*

This task force was asked to form a consensus about 2-4 recommendations that would have the most impact. The other four recommendations came out of numerous discussions about what would be helpful, and have zero or limited side effects. Social networking represents a fifth recommendation that encountered significant controversy, and runs counter to the actual problem we identified: that there are actual factions who are coordinating to make Wikipedia a worse place.

I acknowledge that there is significant support for social networking, to match opposition. So it's incumbent on us to find a compromise:

• We need to allow room for a fifth recommendation, and find a way to contain the cabal issue ... OR ...
• We need to cut out the controversial aspects of the social networking proposal, and incorporate the rest into an existing recommendation ... OR ...
• The supporters of social networking have to make a persuasive case that it is somehow a more valuable recommendation than the other four, and come up with the data to support it.

Is there a compromise that lets us salvage the social networking idea?