I'm not sure that a node with a Rep below 5, because - it's not very hot/good information,
- or a clever solution to something,
- or even a good thread
is in the same consideration as a node with a Rep < 0 because - it is a troll,
- a spam,
- something irrelevant or out of the context...
He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.
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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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