Waiting for perfect questions and perfect answers is just not going to work.

Which part of my post suggests that I would ever believe such a silly idea?

... we already get monks responding with bad and/or incorrect and/or incomplete responses...

Some 80% of the time I hold my metaphorical tongue because I can't figure out a polite way to say "Please don't post blind guesses without at least testing them; it's very rude to waste everyone's time." The other 20% I manage to respond with what I believe to be at least some degree of gentleness.

That's not the worst thing that can happen.

Read the comments on php.net sometime. Someone without the experience (or good fortune) to judge nonsense from veracity could suffer a lot of damage. This is nothing I want to promote with Perl.

In reply to Re^4: To Answer, Or Not To Answer.... by chromatic
in thread To Answer, Or Not To Answer.... by koolgirl

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