What PerlMonks does lack though is a clear feedback on negative reputation. There are posts out there that not only are technical nonsense, but may be really misleading to people reading it. It might be a good idea to hide those posts by default with a message like "This post has a very low reputation, it may be technically incorrect, or irrelevant". It is possible for registered monks to order posts by reputation (which actually is the order I have chosen to use), but it is not the default, so anyone coming to perlmonks after googling their problem won't get the reputation information on the nodes and may not avoid the bad posts.

++Eily for this

I understand what BrowserUk feels. He is somehow very right. My father promoted the downvote for political elections too, you know what i mean if you guess my latititude..

Anyway Eily made some serious and practical suggestions. They are worth to be investigated and, why not, applied.

Why we have to see trash walking in the road? Well, the quarter is not the more exclusive of the city, but why the trash?

I confess, i read not the whole thread, but i got the point. So, if i came into a tecnical, finally Perl releted thread, i'll be very happy to see:

This post has a very low reputation, it may be technically incorrect, 
+or irrelevant.

The user who posted the removed post has \d\d% of very low reputation 
+posts.

If you really want to read the original post you can do it here.
[download]

Now, if i can add some pepper to the discussion, our ancestors, experimenting how hard is to cohabit, had imagined two different insititutions: ostracism and a very clever (but used very rarely) practice: damnatio memoriae.

Meditate monks, meditate.

L*
update: wrongly put citation in code block, sorry. thanks marinersk

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