Why not tell him why his fix is bad so he can improve? This will help him become a valuable member of the community.
The others forgot another reason it isn't worth doing what you suggest.
Aside from the reasons that he'll get a lot of positive feedback.
If you go in with a critique on something like this over there, the others (meaning the poster and those that approve of his re-work wholesale) get quite quickly volatile about issues. Sometimes they don't, but from the threads over there I read, I see a trend. We have 1-2 posters who have attitudes. They have lots.
And then, because you were the one who 'detracted' from the thread, you'd be the one who gets banned.
Really, for SirP and others, it isn't going to be generally worth it. They've got other things going on over there. They do a lot. And even if the risk of being banned is only 5%, it still isn't worth trying to explain things to them.
And it wouldn't do any good anyway. You can teach someone who doesn't know, but you can't teach someone who
knows. An that's the way it is on a lot of other sites. That's why I'm here. I enjoy educated conversation. Educated, and Conversation are
both key words there.
Bhu linked to this site in Awesome stuff, but when I read the title of another article,
I already started laughing. Gotta love it when your insane protest groups jump the gun.