Not sure where this weighs in, but: I've got lots of nodes at zero that are neither spam nor trolls nor terrible (I assume), merely uninteresting. Some of them just answer a question and aren't much to anybody else (as in to ++) but shouldn't be deleted.

But, it does seem -- is troubling many monks. As discussion points, I've suggested -- not being in the XP lottery, -- costing the voter (2 votes, a round of --XP roulette) or something to make it be meaningful to -- somebody. It does seem that somewhere the idea (maybe my misunderstanding) of -- as a sign of error, not disagreement has been lost. Good ol' princepawn and his cult rant touched on that part of it; -- has become a sign that "I don't agree w/ what you're saying" (let alone defend to the death your right to say it) rather than bad code, or ... well, what ever else might be detrimental to our community.

Maybe thats something to think about; what more could be detrimental to the monestary? Disagreement, I say, is good, healthy and double plus good. Bad code, if offered up as "hey, what's wrong w/ this?" is double plus good. We were all young once and churned out (painfully hunt and pecked out) C/VB/CS101-like code or, as likely (hubris anyone?), felt proud as a peacock about the (now) really awful mess that managed (thanks, LW) to successfully parse and produce stats from an Apache log file. Is it to any monk's benefit to smack down that young monk?

So ... I like the idea of no -- but, loathesome as it feels to this small 'd' democrat, w/ the idea that older, wiser monks are 'considering' junk/trolls/trash nodes and moving them somewhere where they won't be in the way. Deleting? nah, disk is cheap and there's always something to learn (even if its - worst case - how your enemies hate you ;-), but some part of working w/ a programming language (similarly, being in a monestary) is recognizing that there are some folks/monks better situated to make subjective decisions than you, er, myself. Living w/ that, respecting that and working w/ that isn't just a good thing, well it's the fact, jack.

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