I also didn't upvote the post for the same reasons.
I did add an idea to the thread regarding symbolic ways that people with ideas and itchy fingers could help. It would also be useful to hear back from long-standing community members about how perlmonks has dealt with 'community relations' in the past. I have not gotten a sense, in my brief time here, how vroom feels about the random suggestions and appeals from the masses but I imagine he's become a bit hardened to the "we must do this" tone of a lot of them.
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> perl -MPOSIX -e'$ENV{TZ}="US/Eastern";print ctime(1000000000)'
Sat Sep 8 21:46:40 2001