Re^4: On the serious issue of XP devaluation and other tangentially related or unrelated passing thoughts

No. PerlMonks regulars are in no way a family, and far from tight-knit. The most productive regular here is Anonymous Monk, featuring a whopping count of 89949 nodes (24.05.2016 01:15:23 GMT-1 +2h). And a decade ago the "family" of regulars was different.

You missed my point, which is: battling for something

a resource that holds a meaning, moves one can play, victory conditions

is not a good way to mitigate conflicts

Personalities will always collide; trolling and counter-trolling will happen. To shut them off is to preclude conflict resolution, preclude any meaningful outcome (other than frustration)

since a battle merely overshadows the underlying conflict, ever so. And who would be those engaged in the battle? The current PerlMonks regulars, of course. What for? There.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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