The written word is a very unforgivening means of communication. I always try to assume the best, but your post comes off as condescending and ignorant. Many people from many different countries speaking many different languages come to this site. Ridiculing their spelling, grammar, or punctuation is hardly professional, constructive, or helping to create a good atmosphere here. All it does is limit the number of contributors to this site, do you really want that? Would it not be better to try and understand the poster's point and respond only if you have something constructive to say?

Take l2kashe's reply in this thread. In my opinion this is far more worthy of the best nodes than some silly, counter-productive obfuscated code, a post stating some module doesn't use strict, or saying be nice to eachother in pretty formatting. l2kashe takes a thread that has been considered for deletion, in which the only reply ridicules the poster (whose first language probably isn't english) and provides a well thought out clarification of what he thinks the poster is asking, and then proceeds to give his serious opinion on the subject. You all could take a lesson from him.

I think it's also a very sad state of affairs when on a major discussion site of a free and open technology people are deleting these kinds of posts. The fact that it was considered at all is sad, the fact that it was considered by a very prominent member of the Perl community makes it even more so. It's even worse when you see it was actually deleted. The root post is not a worthless flame, it is a well-intentioned question. Since when does Perl monks delete posts by those who are well-meaning and only seeking responses to their questions? What's next? Maybe you should delete this post along with any other criticism .