Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
+1 - this is what I do when I don't want highlight and I sometimes go and retro-fit it to other posts, however the majority of users wouldn't know about this.
This has been proposed over on the "master" meta-site: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8600/… - I am going to close this question to direct people to that question as it will receive more publicity. Feel free to voice your opinion there!
+1 - the question is not off topic because of its ethics, it's off topic because the person is not an IT professional, and thus this is not the place for them to be asking anyway.
