Re: Re: Code Tags

Now I'm wondering what would be done if a user started posting everything inside <H1> tags, because he/she likes the way it makes his/her posts look...

My opinion is that PerlMonks provides the CODE tags feature for a specific purpose, namely to protect code blocks from HTML rendering and to provide a convenient way to download them. Using a CODE block around one's entire node goes against this purpose, without providing any benefit to the community.

Additionally, I feel that "censorship" is a serious word that is frequently used too lightly. I fail to see how a trivial change made to the formatting of a node to improve readibility could possibly be construed as censorship.

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(tye)Re3: Code Tags by tye (Sage) on May 25, 2001 at 02:32 UTC
The first couple of times, I'd edit them and notify the author. If the problem persisted, I'd consider the author anti social and downvote (some) new nodes and request reaping of any that overly disrupted otherwise useful threads. If the author managed to make enough of a nuisance of him/herself, then the author would probably eventually find that s/he had "fogotten" his/her password. I would not continue to edit (at least the majority of) them! Are all-code posts that big of a problem? I think it ranks more closely to that of individual monks who persistantly post incorrect answers, use poor grammar, don't break their text into paragraphs, use `<a href="http://www.perlmonks.nog/...">` instead of `[...]`, etc. Sure these are all annoying, but I don't think any of them fall into the category of "let the editors fix them forever". (Yes, I know and accept that I will be fixing these types of problems "forever", but I refuse to keep fixing them for the same person over and over again and, if the person refuses to modify their behavior, then I think other editors should likewise not use their special powers futher.) - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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(tye)Re3: Code Tags
by tye (Sage) on May 25, 2001 at 02:32 UTC

The first couple of times, I'd edit them and notify the author. If the problem persisted, I'd consider the author anti social and downvote (some) new nodes and request reaping of any that overly disrupted otherwise useful threads. If the author managed to make enough of a nuisance of him/herself, then the author would probably eventually find that s/he had "fogotten" his/her password.

I would not continue to edit (at least the majority of) them!

Are all-code posts that big of a problem? I think it ranks more closely to that of individual monks who persistantly post incorrect answers, use poor grammar, don't break their text into paragraphs, use <a href="http://www.perlmonks.nog/..."> instead of [...], etc. Sure these are all annoying, but I don't think any of them fall into the category of "let the editors fix them forever". (Yes, I know and accept that I will be fixing these types of problems "forever", but I refuse to keep fixing them for the same person over and over again and, if the person refuses to modify their behavior, then I think other editors should likewise not use their special powers futher.)

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