Boy was that a baptism by fire.

Eh, don't worry about it. There are people with much worse nodes who nevertheless manage to maintain Saint status (presumably, by also posting some good nodes, logging in regularly, voting, and so on). In a week or so, your node will no longer be worst node of the week, and everyone will forget about it. Most of us don't generally look at the Worst Nodes list very often anyway; it's much more interesting to look at Newest Nodes or Best Nodes or Obfuscated Code or whatever.

$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/
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