In reviewing recently reaped nodes, I see a disturbing trend.
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The war against one Monk's perceived incompetence seemed childish when it amounted merely to downvotes and snide comments. Now we're moving solidly into cyberbullying and censorship.

tl;dr

You get some numbers and a curve: statistics. You derive a trend. What trend? This monks activity, something else? How many snide comments, how many valid rebuttals? Numbers about that? None. Deriving from that a war against a particular monk is fantasy.

Long version

Wait, what? War? Seriously? I don't have to even ask the sour moral questions of the like of "do you know at all what war is about, do you know about world war I+II, do you know what happens in Syria, Irak, Afghanistan, do you know of the war of the rich against the poor, the 'war' of the FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) against the classical producing economy? etc" but just put it down bluntly, from a soldier's view:

War is like tennis (or tennis is a "civilized" war): it is either you or him - or her, if you play "ladies".

No such thing here. No gunning down. No blowing off the court. There's no single one here seeing his only way to carry on his life (as a programmer, perl addict, know-it-all, you name it) in terminating such "life" of sundialsvc4 - to name the elephant in the room. There is no enemity against sundialsvc4 at all, whom we don't know personally (at least the vast majority of whatever Perl Monk, anonymous or not).

The reputation of Monks is based on merits. The number of points each posts gets is based on it's usefulness, clarity, style, authors merits of course too, and whatnot, for the Monk which gets the chance to see it. Each decision to upvote, downvote, consider or ignore is personal choice.

I'd lump your post into the same drawer as Yet Another Appeal for Civility as it calls for considerate action based on some imagined moral consent, which ain't.

If sundialsvc4 posts good stuff, I vote it up. If it is leading astray, carries bad advice, I'll downvote it or eventually gainsay in a response. If it fits my personal criteria for trolling, I'd occasionally consider it or vote 'reap' if someone else did already.

I don't know what my fellow monks criteria is, by their vote - but it is their own choice, and if the reason for such choice is put down in a proper response, I might concur.

There's no war here against anybody. Yes, Patience is a Monk Virtue; nuff said.

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

In reply to Re: Patience is a Monk Virtue by shmem
in thread Patience is a Monk Virtue by marinersk

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