Re^3: Joel on software: "I hate Perl programmers." - thread.

[tlm]

Think about this way. If the post you quoted had been posted directly to PM, it would have gotten downvoted to hell and back, irrespective of whatever grains of truth it may contain. The downvotes would be in response to the tone and the complete lack of anything that could be regarded as constructive or even original.

So why should a quotation get any better response? More specifically, why should quoting something circumvent PM's scheme to keep its content useful?

If I really wanted to know other opinions about the rant in question, I guess I would have posted some brief notice in CB, along the lines "Hey, what do you folks think about this rant?", and provided a link to it. I'm sure that this alone would have gotten me plenty of useful perspectives.