Re^5: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors

[shmem]

Point, point, point, point, but...

By bullying "bad actors" mercilessly until they withdraw in disgust?

...I'm not aware of any bullying going on here. Even when arguments are defended with strong language and casual ad hominem attacks, things are much better here than e.g. a post by Linus Torvalds. Strong dismissal afair almost always followd lack of technical merit.

Concerning the bit of bad advice being educational - that's only true if the discussion about the topic at hand is followed thoroughly. I completely forgot the fact, in my responses so far, that this site is anonymously indexed, and that by means of undisclosed algorithms shitty posts might appear up front in the output of search engines, if garbage is long enough repeated over and over.

So, I wholeheartedly concur lastly with your measures, and:

Thanks for the inordinate amount of work you were and are doing to improve PerlMonks.