Although laziness is one of the three Great Virtues, I cannot myself see why I should exert any effort on someone who does not even make the effort to read some documentation or write some code before asking specific questions about how to do something. Several monks provided hints on documentation, perldocs, and other documents that would provide the information they needed. In some cases, the answers were easily at hand by going to Google. I don't believe that there was censoring going on at all. Many people on this site, however, believe that people generally need to make some sort of effort before answering specific questions. If freak's questions were more generic, say along the lines of "How do I access a website with Perl?", "What's the best module for accessing websites?", etc., then those questions can be answered quickly and should always be welcome here.
Were freak's motives "pure" or not? I can't say. What I do know is that freak made no effort to ask the questions. We don't have to make the effort to answer them. We can choose to answer them or not. That choice is your's alone.
In reply to Re: Information sharing
by Steve_p
in thread Information sharing
by dragonchild
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