I'm not advocating "censorship" of opinions (even if making people click on a link to see text could be construed as "censorship"). I'm expressing a sense of trust, based on years of observed evidence, that the PerlMonks community can use this sort of technique effectively and responsibly, in order to deal in a sensible way with nodes that do not express opinions, do not ask pertinent questions, do not offer help or any other sort of cooperative or meaningful communication.

What value do we preserve by making every site visitor read that kind of stuff? What core principle of community spirit does that evoke for anybody? I appreciate your concerns, and I'm glad you presented them. When it comes to any sincere attempt to communicate, I agree with you completely. But my proposal is aimed at limiting the impact of those whose obvious intent is to interfere with communication.

I'll admit that I proposed a fairly low threshold for establishing "consensus" for ignoring a given node, and as the population of active monks continues to increase, it makes sense to raise that threshold.

In reply to Re^2: Requesting a new tag for PM posts by graff
in thread Requesting a new tag for PM posts by graff

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