I agree wholeheartedly, mav, and the principles are very sound. I think it's very important not to lose people like Bingley, and I don't think his case will be all that isolated if we keep doing exactly what we're doing at present.

(Yes, I know, mea maxima culpa again...)

Getting everybody to subscribe to the rules is the problem.
Has to be done voluntarily, all by itself, as otherwise we need some sort of policing.

Tell you what, I'll try to skip inserting fun & games stuff in Q&A for now. Sounds doable, and every little helps.

(I can do it, I can do it, I can do it...)

P.S. We can append stuff like this to a Top Tips/FAQ Fred in Info/announcements, along with "how to use markup", "links between Freds" etc. I may even do something like this myself at some point.