In this new post to his blog Adam Harvey shares his opinion on unmoderated notes dropped directly into the PHP manual - "they're bad, mkay?"

I’ve had a couple of whinges on IRC lately about why I’m not thrilled with having user notes in their current form in the PHP manual; we get entirely too many questions in ##php from people who’ve copied code out of a note and are then annoyed when it turns out the code is wrong, broken, horrible, or all of the above.

His gives an example (one of many currently in the manual) that shows a round-about way of getting a date string that could be done better in a single "format()" function call on a DateTime object.

I don’t know what the answer is - moderation has its own problems to do with workload, as PEAR can attest - but a system that's letting that go up as recommended practice (and stay up for a month) has to be looked at.