So, for the silent majority who seem to ensure that"Possible Homework alert" is destined for the Worst Nodes list for the next week or so, could you please elaborate on the reason you downvoted (even as an Anonymous Monk post)? Is it because:

• I should never label anything as possible homework?
• I should have been smart enough to notice this one wasn't?
• I should have replied to the original poster privately to first determine this?
• There's no positive content, so only the people that routinely vote all of my posts negative won out?
• Something else I've completely blanked out on?

I'm all for feedback to help with a behavior change, but a negative net XP only tells me "don't do this", but I don't have enough information to categorize what this is.

So, 'fess up!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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