I do not agree. I think that any monk should be able to edit his or her node for style, faux pas and grammatical errors. This is especially true for monks that don't speak English natively. Nobody wants to look like a retard, or to make a serious semantic gaffe. Things get lost (or added :-) ) in the mental working of cultural adaptation.

All natively English-speaking monks, try the following experiment: try to write a thoughtful node in French or Spanish (or in your other second language). How long does it take? After many previews, are you finally cerain about the wording? Do you have any acute feeling that your struggle has nothing to do with Perl at all?

Therefore, tye++, PodMaster-- (Take my downvote as a statement)

Update: Some clarification, some addition. See below.

To allolex: I meant "preview" metaphorically, not literally. Like most people here (I believe), I do type my post in my favourite text editor, then paste it at use the "preview" button only to check if the PerlMonks engine renders my markup as I intended. I agree with the other points of your reply.

My main social reason for concern is that I believe that trying to put purely technical barriers against social problems does more harm than good. Instead of an "entrenched", static, indiscriminate defense against abuse, I would choose a dynamic, feedback based one.

My main personal reason for concern is that I have a tendency to dramatize, to overdo my prose, to use lofty constructs beyond my command of the English language, instead of just Keeping It Simple, Stupid. I know it'll bite back hard some day, but I just can't help myself! Oh, vanity! :-)

In reply to Re: Re: End ban on root node edits? by calin
in thread End ban on root node edits? by tye

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