Now apparently someone or a few individuals are attempting to raise the collective hackles, and frankly it upsets me. ... Am I simply kneejerking, or what?

Yes. But when enough people kneejerk together, it's often called "concensus". However, I suspect that you may be in a minority with this particular set of concerns.

Some posts by Anonymous Monks might trip some flamebaiting filters, but consider whether the resulting threads contain anything valuable. Some people might find that it's easier to approach an uncomfortable topic if they go Anonymous. I'm O.K. with that. We have multiple mechanisms for dealing with posts that go over the line. Some Anonymous posts never get approved.

On the specific articles you cite, I found Ignorant Article to be very interesting, even if it got closer to dealing with personalities than I'm generally comfortable with. Likewise, Use perl wisely, not cleverly carries an odor of troll, but some the responses are interesting, and provided me with some new information on companies that use Perl.

In reply to Re: Dissallowing AM to create threads by dws
in thread Dissallowing AM to create threads by l2kashe

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