Your posts in that thread lacked Perl content and their tone invited heated responses. (They did in fact receive heated responses.) Whether the newest monk or the highest saint made those posts, the posts can be judged along those lines. Perhaps more experienced posters do get some leeway -- but the system does not protect any one person from legitimate criticism.

Discussing the rightness or wrongness of a political, religious, or ethical situation is off-topic and otherwise fraught with peril. Several different people must agree to trip automatic reaping -- that happened in this case.

In the future please keep your posts on topic and tone down your tone or restate your positions.

In reply to Re: Seemingly-inappropriate reaping of nodes by chromatic
in thread Seemingly-inappropriate reaping of nodes by dragonchild

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