I am not in favor of requiring Anonymous Monk to jump through additional hoops to post. Anonymous Monk doesn't necessarily mean "Newbie Monk". It just means anonymous. The point is that, while a sizable portion of anonymous posters are new, a good portion of them are NOT new, and have already read your suggested titles.

Plus, Anonymous Monk is anonymous, so any effort to require him to read something would mean tracking him. ...either track him with a cookie, or every time he posts make him read again. Sounds very annoying.

On the other hand, regarding the required reading before monks can tinker with the consideration system, that's a reasonable proposal. It wouldn't bother me if we made people hit those pages every six months, in fact, if they wish to retain their moderator powers. Why not? I refer to each of the nodes you listed at least every 60 days, if not more frequently. Ok, I know why not; because someone has to implement it, and that takes additional work. ;)


Dave

In reply to Re: Methods For Better Questions by davido
in thread Methods For Better Questions by madbombX

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