I only just finished my first trimester at PerlMonks, so I am new to this all. From my understanding, the reaping of a node is not automatically the result of some monk considering the node but of a poll among monks.

In How does Nodes to Consider work?, it says:
If the voting on a consideration goes preponderantly toward reap (again, according to a magical formula of the keep/edit/reap tally), the node will be automatically reaped. Note, though, that the conditions under which this happens are quite stringent, the idea being that it's better to err on the side of not reaping a bad node, rather than reaping a good node.

So even if you feel that a particular monk considers nodes for reaping too often or for the wrong reasons, there must still be a number of other monks agreeing with the consideration. Excluding from consideration does not seem to be the right tool to prevent the potentially unjustified reapings.

A more precise definition of "troll" and "personal attack" might be desirable, however, a lot of personal judgement will still be involved.

In reply to Re: using the power of consideration responsibly (what is personal attack what is trolling, can you lose power to consider) by hdb
in thread using the power of consideration responsibly (what is personal attack what is trolling, can you lose power to consider) by Anonymous Monk

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