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".

I agree with Tanktalus, and support jdporter's suggestions as well. I didn't know blazar very well, and haven't been on the site much lately, so Tanktalus's comment was the first I had found of his passing. This is very sad to me :(, and I think that a simple posting of a notice about the Monk's passing, and a In Memoriam page would be a good idea and a nice way to allow the fellow monks of the deceased, who maybe weren't close enough to have information such as a home address and the like, but who nonetheless had a friendship with the deceased monk and wished to show their sympathies, to do so in a simple manner.

Also, just as a respect issue, this would be a good idea, (jdporter's suggestions I'm referring to here), so that we would be aware, because no one wants to un-knowingly make a comment about someone in jest, only to find out that person is recently deceased and close grieving friends are a bit offended.

++jdporter, and Tanktalus

Of course this may be the wrong time or place, but I was quite saddened to hear of blazar's passing, and offer my sympathies to his family, and the Monks here who were close with him :(

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.

Well, in theory, it would be possible someone hoaxes (look ma, I just verbed a noun!) the death of a retired monk (someone who posted a lot in the past, but no longer visits this site). 10% of the top-100 saints haven't been around for a year or longer, so if someone hoaxes their death, it's unlikely to be fixed by said monk themselves anytime soon.

Not that I think this is a serious problem.

I'm not numbered in the gods.

In principle, the idea sounds fine; in practice, it seems difficult to avoid endorsing a hoax.

Be well,
rir

This is Perlmonks. We don't put up hoaxes.


holli, /regexed monk/

I agree with a home node mention/link. It's respectful to the deceased, who in this case gave back to the community plenty.