Re: Let us give thanks for princepawn shall whine no more

[merlyn]

Ahh,I should have recognized the similarity in styles.

If you're expecting that people will not build a reputation based on past posts, you are quite naive. I've just reviewed the things you've said as metaperl, and never once did you come to to table without having done your homework or attacking Perl when really it was something you did wrong. Both things which you as princepawn eventually got a reputation for.

I don't think you could have been metaperl without having also been princepawn for a while. You learned what pushed people's buttons here as princepawn, and you consciously avoided those with metaperl.

Sure, I could create other_guy that says only uncontroversial things too, and probably would have gotten to saint a bit faster. But I believe that would have been an abuse of the XP system.

You are using pseudonyms to hide, and for me, that just lost my trust of you. I hope you're happy with that. I feel conned. And I don't like feeling conned. I won't be helping princepawn or metaperl any more. Period. And I would ask others to join me in this stand.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[chromatic]

That's your perogative, but I can't agree.

Neither of us get paid to post here, and it's a hobby for both of us (though it relates strongly to our respective jobs), so I do appreciate the time you've spent here answering questions.

That said, I don't see anything hostile in princepawn's methods or intents. Posting with a second account is certainly a control operation to see if he's attracted serial downvoters.

Whatever the case, I'm willing to answer an honest question from anyone, be it a person who doesn't want to seem wishy washy by prefacing every question with the phrase "Maybe I just don't understand things, but here is what I tried and I can't seem to get it to work" to a fat Alaskan electrician who says, "What's wrong with this guestbook from scriptarchive?"

When people don't put forth a reasonable amount of effort to answer their own questions, or become abusive, defensive, or offensive, then I won't help.

I think people have the capacity to change and to grow, and I like to give them the opportunity to do so. There's not much written on a web site or on Usenet or in an IRC channel that's worth getting angry about.

(and the more tricky concepts I explain, the more likely people will realize my untapped brilliance and pay me lots of money to write chromatic's guide to doing cool stuff)