We differ here.

To me, reading enough of a site's docs to have a broad understanding of the site's standards -- and abiding by those standards -- is part of "the price of admission."

And, it seems to me, that maintaining an atmosphere which clearly communicates the community standards is about the only way one can hope to keep the standards. I'd be greatly disappointed were the Monastery to become a site swamped by all manner of un-Perl-ish questions -- how to use some browser's capabilities; why a $var doesn't seem to work in Pascal; how to set up Apache or administer a *nix system issue.

I dispute "abusive," though; sharp phrases, ironic dismissals and the like may be memorable (and I hope that's so), but I don't think "abusive" is fair or accurate.

YMMV; no problem there, but I've no inclination to accept YM without response.