I'll try to answer this without feeling personally "attacked".

Some points I would like to make:

  1. First of all, if the author had not been an AnonyMonk, I would not have considered the node. But if someone has no experience in Perl, and just posts a very unclear node in the Monastery, one for which a quick search turns up a possible solution (as you point out), then I'd say that that AnonyMonk has not done his/her homework. And then to top it off by asking for a reply by email, that just did it for me.
  2. I could have moved on and disregarded it. However, the node also sets an example for other AnonyMonks. A bad example, I think.
  3. If the node deletion blew off one person from Perl, that's too bad. If it took just that to blow this person of, I don't think it wouldn't have taken much. If that AnonyMonk comes back to check up on the node, (s)he will find it was deleted and find my name and a reason associated with it. That may ring a bell with that AnonyMonk or not. Maybe that AnonyMonk will register for the next question, maybe that AnonyMonk will never come back. Who knows.

Personally, I am surprised the node got deleted (that quickly). In the past I have considered nodes without voting on it myself. I just wanted to get the attention of other monks. In this case I admit I have voted for deletion, because of the reasons I mentioned above.

Liz

In reply to Re: Re:x2 Approving inappropriate questions in SoWP by liz
in thread Approving inappropriate questions in SoPW by bradcathey

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