Okay, some of what I might say will only make sense to people who've been here for a while, but I think you'll get the idea.

• I miss the old-style server error messages. I laughed my head off (ha, ha, thump) the first time I saw one.
• Do you know where to find "sexisgood"?
• I know what mt2k means.
• The scratchpad used to use "This pad be public. Scratch it." Now it has the politically correct "View It". Boo, hiss!
• On one of my applications at work, if you try really, really hard, you'll find submit buttons named "stumbit".

I want the quirks. I don't want to succumb to the bland "we must not offend, irritate, or confuse" mentality. I want people to surf this site and say "hey, what's that?" about the site itself, or the people therein, not just the content of the nodes. These things add to the character of Perlmonks. No, not everyone will appreciate them, but as I've said before, the definition of Utopia is a place someone is guaranteed to hate. Keep the quirks. They're a friendly reminder that people are behind this, not just some faceless corporate entity.

Cheers,
Ovid

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