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>Teh purpose of JS would be contributing to the collective effort to have our slightly "distinct" (not necessarily in the way of old internet, that's point of another debate) way of writing compared to other places, and having a tool to make it an easier task than it'd otherwise be for non-regular users and newbies
The thing is, cultures naturally change over time - even on the internet. Heyuri today isn't the same as what it was 4 years ago (or even 2 years ago), and I don't think it's wise to force it to be

Such heavy-handed tools to "educate" will only sabotage the community's own authentic efforts to establish and determine its own culture, and I suspect will also limit the number of new users willing to give the site a chance - I certainly wouldn't want to be lectured by freaking internet Clippy while writing my first post on a site I thought looked cool... it's a big turn-off!

It's one thing for users to state in their own words the various dos and don'ts of the community as we perceive them - or even to reference the rules when it's appropriate - but it's another for all the various minutia to be shoved down users' throats (along with a 5-step program on how to "correct" their behavior) the moment they attempt to write a post
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