leriksen, the first time I read through your post, I was with you (even cheering initially). After more thought, and some offline discussions with friends, colleagues, and students, I think you are asking for too much. I'll admit, I'm one of the first people to complain about students asking for monks to answer their perl questions without putting any effort into it themselves.

But there isn't much difference between asking at the Monastery or in a #perl channel on one of a few hundred IRC servers, except it is very easy for a professor to check the Monastery once a day or so for any of his/her students' actions. I would hope that any professor teaching a class on perl would be wise enough to A) tell all of the students about the Monastery, B) set guidelines on what they ask around here during the class, and C) drop by every now and then to ensure his/her students aren't violating those guidelines.

I personally am very happy when I see my fellow monks noticing someone is trying to get an easy answer to pass a class without expending any effort. The unwritten code of conduct seems to be that aside from the extreme and bizarre happenings, we expect at least 80% of the work to be done, then the monks will help out with optimization and peer review sorts of things. I guess the most I would ask on this thread would be that we make some of the unwritten rules on this subject within the monastery written. Perhaps someone versed in lawyer-speak can drum up a nice couple sentences to be added on the FAQ, SoPW page, and/or maybe even Create A New User.

- - arden.
p.s. complaining about being downvoted in the same thread is only asking to be downvoted again. Some might even call it trollish.