Seeing as this thread was started at exactly the right (wrong?) time, probably within 24-48 hours of blazar's passing, I would like to reiterate, in the proper thread, my support for jdporter's suggestions. That is, official PM policy to insert a marker in the homenode of a passed-on monk, with a link to any Perl News (or Meditation or whatever) node with the announcement of the death. And, further PM policy to do no more than that.

What say the gods?

Update: Let's say someone DOES try a hoax. Say they perpetrate the hoax that I die. Nevermind the cheers :-P When I arrive back, I can fix it. If I perpetrate my own fake death, well, really, the community will write me off anyway (well, the ones who haven't already, I mean). To be honest, I don't see a lot of hoaxes being perpetrated here, and even those that do can be corrected by the not-actually-deceased easily enough: respond to the incorrect news item (which was linked from their homenode), and remove the notation the gods put there. And the originator of the hoax will definitely be ostracised. The only hoaxes we see around here are April-first jokes, and I doubt anyone would actually stoop that low for a "joke".

In reply to Re^2: Obituary section by Tanktalus
in thread Obituary section by Win

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