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"Helen Chen" <helen.chen@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gr30tp$o5s$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > i shall  referee all such submissions with this one-star comment:
> > 
> A reminder to everyone in this community that File Exchange comments should be focused on the code, and should help the submitter improve their MATLAB coding skills.  We do review all comments posted to File Exchange. We remove any comments that do not meet this criteria as being off-topic. 

Since you do NOT review submissions to the FEX, why review comments? Many of the FEX submissions are orders of magnitude worse than the comments.

> 
> This guideline was established following requests from our community members.  It is intended to keep the discussions focused and professional. 

And what your "community-members" requests to keep submissions "focused and professional" rather than the "pure dreck" submissions as John D. calls them?
> 
> Sincerely, 
> Helen Chen
> MATLAB Central Administration