> has not been changed, silently or otherwise.

Silently ignoring a new practice means paving the way to acceptance.

The policy doesn't even mention "trolls", only

To reap a highly offensive posting. PerlMonks is meant to be family friendly. And perhaps more importantly, we'd like to keep PerlMonks off of corporate blacklists which would prevent worthy monks from participating while at work.

> Troll-feeding is anti-social

I already explained why I did what I did, but I'm not concentrating on this post alone.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

In reply to Re^2: reap, troll-feeding of reaped troll by LanX
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