After more time for people to weigh in on the subject, the tally is roughly evenly divided on whether the code should stay hidden.

As one of the editors, a 50/50 split is certainly not enough of a mandate to get me to "edit" a node, so I have undone my temporary changes to the node.

I've submitted this to Nodes to consider so that high-level monks can vote on whether they think the code should remain. This vote is really for informational purposes only as the reputation on the node is fairly positive and so it very unlikely to be deleted (and will be restore even if that happens) and I seriously doubt there will be enough of a mandate to warrant changes by one of the editors. But I'm curious what the numbers from this informal poll will be. Think of it as a way to take a side without having to write a whole node. I apologize that lower-level monks will not be able to participate -- that is what happens when I abuse features of the site for things that they weren't intended. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to code restored (Re: Immoral?) by tye
in thread Morality of posting Perl "virus" code? by tachyon

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