Feed back in the forms of votes, replies, etc, should always be welcome and not avoided. Your post was an excellent post and I don't think it lost any value by being voted for or replied to. In fact it probably gained a lot of influence for newbs when they see the replies and can tell that they arn't the only people to make this mistake and its not a horrible thing, just a fact of life. The point about anyone being able to post it is both good and bad, but we have a good set of janitors who do a good job keeping the site clean, and a good set of users who tend to follow the unspoken rules so I think that while its a flaw in theory, in practice it wont realy be an issue.

My whole point was that some minor search mechanism can be linked to that will pull out just those posts so that while they would still be in PMD they wouldn't be buried in there amongst other stuff.

I, for one, think that any announcment system should allow and encourage discussion. Discussion can help clarify why a change occured, how it can be used, and in many cases how it can be turned off (sense we have lots of people who like things the way they are and hate change. ;) )


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re^3: RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki by eric256
in thread RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki by jdporter

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