Anonymous comments might tear the community apart, for those with thin skin enough to take them personally -- and named ones will generate contempt. I am strongly against this proposal. I don't want to know. For those that care enough, they can post a public reply -- I'm one of the rare ones that doesn't like to see complaints in my inbox as well -- why? I have to go and manually delete them, and that is an annoyance. Tell me publically. If you see a really old thread that I won't read or have some really cool info, yeah, PM's are ok for that.

For the record, most downvotes I have cast today were for condescension towards others ideas, offering trite responses slightly beyond RTFM, and elitism, something I have very little tolerance for in the monastery. If I was wrong and I just misinterpreted attitude that wasn't there, or that is just someone's nature, others will upvote the node and restore the correct order of the universe. I always upvote good discussion, or things that make me think, even when I don't care for the discussion.

And yeah, I downvoted the root node for whininess. Rule #7 of Perl Club. Don't care about XP.

In reply to Re: Encouraging comments for downvotes by flyingmoose
in thread Encouraging comments for downvotes by disciple

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