That is a custom specific to the Development & Technology forumonly well-known to regulars there, and very well-known to regulars there, together with the use of the merit system to endorse technical correctness.
That doesn't make it good for the rest of the forum. Technically (pun intended) dev&tech users who do that should be excluded from DT and can form their own trust network to pat themselves on the back with positive trust ratings.
Are you implicitly saying that achow101 should be excluded because of this as well? I'm just trying to understand the extent of this statement..
So, thus far, suchmoon proposes (either explicitly or by unavoidable implication):
~Vod
~achow101
Whos next? How far will this go? It is not exactly a winning argument, if you want to keep
anybody with sound judgment in DT.