"Well, I think, it depends on what I like vs. what someone else likes."

Well, I'm surprised you still think that given my advice to you regarding Display Settings, less than 24 hours ago, in "Re^2: PERL csv files to Excel".

If you didn't know how to access Display Settings, you should have asked. Here's how to do it:

1. In your home node, follow the Settings link in "Edit your: Profile, Settings" which will take you to your User Settings page.
2. Now follow the Display Settings link in "See Also: Display Settings, ..." which will take you to your Display Settings page.
3. If you need help using the Display Settings page, follow the Help for this page link which will take you to the Help for Display Settings page.

There are a number of easy-to-use settings which only require things like changing a number (e.g. Code Wrap Length) or clicking a checkbox (e.g. Large Code Font). For more fine-grained control, you can use CSS.

You can arrange to have nodes displayed as you want them. There is no requirement to force your preferences on anyone else.

Could we just focus on the content instead of the style? I mean if we had to rate the looks, I could give infinite downvotes to people.

Please explain how you could "give infinite downvotes to people" given this site's rules only allow you to downvote a node once (though multiple downvotes on a post were once requested by BrowserUk ;-).

Your content then continues by stating the obvious, namely that a Perl Monk would be surprised to receive infinite downvotes on a post, and then further speculates on what they might say if that occurred. And then it ends. So I downvoted it on (lack of useful) content, not style.

Update: You wouldn't need infinite downvotes to cause surprise, 1000 downvotes would be enough, based on this classic prank. :)

"I could give infinite downvotes to people"

How? You can't understand basic numeracy.

"Could we just focus on the content instead of the style?"

Please do so.

"Then they would be surprised why. Well, simple answer: I don't like the font size of the perl code within the code block. Or I don't like the 70-character limit. They might say, I didn't do it!"

The site is customisable for logged in users. The point of having tags is that an input standard can be displayed differently for each user based upon their preferences.

Well, I think, it depends on what I like vs. what someone else likes

What I like is surely what everyone likes...

Easy-to-read content with easy-to-understand questions, information or observations.

A solid block of text with no formatting fails the easy-to-read test. I'll leave others to decide if the content is easy to understand!

Personally, I try to ensure that my own questions and comments are well-formatted and easy to read. I attempt to use clear and relatively straightforward language as I realise that for many contributors here, English is not their first language. I attempt to add meaningful content to the discussions. At times this is difficult as many of the people here are vastly more knowledgeable than me. Most of all, I remember that the Monks who are helping me are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts and that their generosity is extremely valuable to me.

Strangely, the more effort I put into my posts, the more help I get from the Monastery, and the more my XP seems to go up...

"What I like is surely what everyone likes..."

In terms of structure and content of posts, I generally agree with what you've written; however, with regards to presentation, we all have personal preferences, which can be quite different.

harangzsolt33 made specific reference^[#11151208] to "font size" to "70-character limit". In my response^[#11151212] I made general reference to Display Settings and included specific information about those two items.

It would be over a decade since I set up my preferences, so I don't really recall exactly what I didn't like. Presumably, I was OK with my browser settings, so I've made no change to <code> block font sizes; I generally use a large screen, so I've increased the default 70-character limit via the Code Wrap Length setting; and, I clearly didn't like the rendering of some specific <tt> content, as my CSS includes:

tt.inlinecode > font[size="-1"] {
    font-family:       monospace;
    font-size:         0.917em;
}
[download]

The point being that these are my preferences and do not affect any other user.

harangzsolt33 has made use of <font> tags and bgcolor attributes to get the rendering he wants and doesn't seem to care that this does affect all other users.

— Ken

Could we just focus on the content instead of the style?

(LOL) And FYI your content is often not really on topic. (LOL) If that's OK for you, then better learn to live with the downvotes. (LOL)

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