That's life!

Sometime some people may chose to post an interesting answer (non-traditional) to some simple questions. I would look at those answers interestingly, but probably never use them in real life. However posting those interesting answers is not a crime.

You can always chose to down vote it, if you don't like it, and think it matters. That's your right, as well as it is the author's right to post it. Good that this is a tech forum, people can only go that far. If you look at some forums about politics, people's view can be way more apart than here and even goes opposite all the time, so... that's life, and we are lucky here.

Are those posts for XP points, I don't want to second guess the intention. Even if the intention is for XP points, what is wrong about it? If lots of people like it, and it gets lots of points, so... people like it. If lots of poeple down vote it, so...people dislike it.

The guy you voted against might become your president (potentially this can happen to a little bit less than 50% of the people), so what... that's life, we play with rules. Rules might be wrong, but ...

The ultimate rule here (or any forum) is to live with people has a different view, taste, etc. Again, luckily this is a tech forum, the space for people to go apart is rather limited than the real world.

By the way, if you see a post might hurt newbies (usually it does not, hey everyone was/is a newbie, but nobody was/is a dumb. Newbie may not know how to do certain things in Perl, but he/she will judge the answers), post a reply saying "hi, I think this is clever but maybe just for fun."