This is why perlmonks.org needs an "Omit from Voting" mechanism that can be applied to nodes whose submitters wish not to be subject to evaluation. | [reply] |
I don't agree that perlmonks needs an "Omit from voting" mechanism - we "just" need to convince the monks that thanking people in public is *not* meaningless.
A note thanking people for their help means that the OP read the replies and found them helpfull. This is a *good thing*. IMO a "thank you node" does two things:
- It shows that the replies helped solve the problem at hand.
- It shows that the OP appreciated people helping him/her.
Both are good. The first one because it helps people assess the usefullness of the replies (even if most monks can already assess the usefullness of a lot of replies by themselves, that doesn't mean every visitor to this site can), the second one because it keeps a sense of community.
I think people who downvote "thank you" notes should think harder about what they're voting on and why.
Please feel free to downvote if you don't agree.
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I certainly respect your disagreement and your points are all well taken. However, the present -4 rep. of the node to which you replied furthers my arguement.
All of a sudden my standing in the community has taken a hit, not because I have made an inflammatory statement nor proffered code riddled with syntactical mistakes or common logical errors, but because people disagree with my suggestion.
This is, of course, their right and I applaud you for replying with your arguement if also downvoting my node, however, my reputation within this community should not be effected by the merit of my feature recommendations nor by certain monks' distaste for nodes expressing gratitude for a helpful response.
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