Re^6: Can I please have multiple downvotes per (certain monk's) posts.

[Anonymous Monk]

morgon: Why? ... unambiguously calling nonsense nonsense is the way to do it.

Yeah few of us tried that -- a number of such nodes got reaped for trolling

3809 nodes is a lot of garbage to refute

[aaron_baugher]

3809 nodes is a lot of garbage to refute

Yeah, that's a lot to expect from people who are participating voluntarily because they want to learn new ideas and help people who are open to being helped. I'll admit that I rarely read this irritant's posts anymore, which means I'm not down-voting them either. I use an RSS reader to show me new nodes, so if I see his username, I don't read it because I already know it's nonsense. That's normal human behavior -- if someone's consistently annoying, you learn to avoid him -- but in this case it works in his favor, since if everyone does that he gets to post his nonsense unopposed and un-downvoted.

I enjoy PerlMonks very much and learn a lot here, but I don't know how much time I'm obligated to spend following one user around correcting his nonsense, just so we can say we haven't "censored" him. I owe the community some of my time, but not an unlimited amount, and I'd like to spend as much of it as possible helping people.