Personally, I find Alex the Serb to be ignorant, immature and offensive. The first time I saw his node, I rolled my eyes, and said to myself "What an idiot". I then moved on, promptly forgetting about him until now. His node I think is offensive. The logic that he gives on his home node is faulty, or at least the last time I checked, the act of making a sweeping generalization based on one fact was semantically considered an "arguement from the extreme". However, if it is not, then is it also fair to consider all Serbs to be war mongering racists due to the actions of just a few? No, it is not, nor do I consider them to be such. Yet, based off of this observation he then makes the claim - "They should not even exist!". What is this? Are all Americans doomed to die because of Jerry Springer? I dunno, but to me that seems kinda harsh.

I did not post this, though, to refute all of Alex's misguided "facts". I am making this post in reply to Juerd's Friendly home node.

I think gmax has hit the nail on the head. Yes, you do have the right to free speech (depending on what country you live in I guess), but Perlmonks also has the right to moderate what you say. Is this an infringement on free speech? No, of course not! You can go into a movie theatre and start spouting your mouth off, and claim it is your right due to free speech; however, it is the right of the movie theatre to remove you from the premises as well, and they will. It is the same with Perlmonks, it is their website and they can choose to enforce whatever rules they want.

Perlmonks has a guide to the Monestery:

What Perl Monks is:

• Our attempt to make learning Perl as nonintimidating and easy to use as possible.
• A place for you and others to polish, improve, and showcase your Perl skills.
• A community which allows everyone to grow and learn from each other.

Personally, I think that there should be moderation of the home nodes to at least some degree. Yes, your home node is so you can tell people a little about yourself and what you are doing with perl, but Alex the Serb's node goes considerably beyond this.

I for one, would not be sorry to see it disappear.

wohlgek