Each community needs some means of protecting itself after it has grown to a certain size.

One of the protections of the Perl community is that certain people take up the role of the bastard and, among other things, yell at people who don't stick to the rules, and resort to bans if yelling wasn't successful.

I'm grateful that mst plays that role, so that I (and others) don't have to.

From your questions it sounds like you had some clashes with this role (you don't happen to own or have owned a 4-letter/digit nickname here on perlmonks?), and thus concluded that it's a bad role, and makes the Perl community less friendly.

From your perspective that's certainly a reasonable conclusion, but you have to ask yourself how else the Perl community could defend itself against people who don't stick to the rules. Any suggestions?

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In reply to Re: How to ask a question in the Perl community, and where to ask it by moritz
in thread How to ask a question in the Perl community, and where to ask it by Anonymous Monk

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