I'm afraid that I'm gonna have to disagree with you there, m'man. Most of the messages you're talking about (the "good jobs" and "good lucks" and "lookee heres") are a natural part of this environment-- a warm, friendly, supportive environment. When I go home to visit my folks, I don't scold them for making smalltalk or gushing about minor achievments that they don't really understnad ("Hey, Mom, I finally finished coding the cgi to serve content for this website I'm working on"
"why, that's super, dear!"
"And then the dog came in the room and set up a Beowulf cluster while singing Opera and implementing 128 bit IDEA encryption."
"How wonderful! Do you want chicken for dinner?" and etc.)
Besides, the kind of moderating and monitoring you want done couldn't possible by automated-- not fairly, at least (you could, for example, elimate all posts under a certain length, but that's hardly workable. There are plenty of occasions when a single snippet of code answers a question perfectly.) In the end, you'd need human moderators to do this, and then the Monastery would just become an expression of the whims and prejudices of those moderators.
The Autonomic Pilot
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From the title, I thought this was going to be about
the abuse of font color in posts.
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I find it strange that you feel that way. Looking through your writeups, I see:
Node 7736
I don't know, but that site of yours isn't too bad. That chat room is kinda crappy, though!
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I don't know, but would love to know how too... The Games Page--Under Construction
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Sorry, it just can't be done. (I suppose you got that from all the other messages, huh?)
If there is a way, I'd love to see it!
So it seems to me that out of your 6 (at the moment) replies to any question you did not originally post, a full half of them fall into the "advertisements and cheap things" category. Are you saying that you should "go somewhere else"?
I'm not trying to be harsh, but look to your own posts first.
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Good observations. Thank you for posting. I hope an answer pops up.
I think that these kinds of things foster the sense of community around PerlMonks. If you dock users for simply opening their virtual mouths, there wouldn't be precicely this kind of dialog for fear that the Thought Police would nail them with a XP-=15.
Double-plus-ungood.
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That's almost exactly what I was thinking...I like the fact that the current XP system rewards users for both submitting good code, etc and for being an active community member (i.e., posting).
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I was going to vote you down, but then I relented. I am not in favour of restricting anyones right to express thier opinion and voting your post down would have had that effect.
I don't agree with you.
Nuance
Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted
itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord,
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Good question. I hope an answer pops up | [reply] |