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proven known good users.

I've been here since the very beginning. Never posted any crap, never will, yet I still have to deal with some posts getting mangled just because a small percentage of fools insist on polluting the discussion space.

Why not let those contributors actually do just that, without being ham-strung with goofy rules.

If you earn the right to make unfiltered posts, great. If you abuse it, you then lose the right for a good long time.

The noise level would probably be the same, but we might see some better posts.

(Like the Cue-Cat one that had the actual decoder program written in C. Copy, paste, compile, done! --Not sure that can be done today, or can it?)

Anyway, that's what's currently on my mind. What's on yours? Leave me a link in the comments below and I'll be sure to give your issue some of my mindshare in exchange for yours.