Re^7: Password request (*sandy*)

[Anonymous Monk]

Your lack of certainty should be a weight to the importance of making a public declaration of the incorrectness (that your perceive). As should the significance of the perceived errors, of course.

Pedants are often perceived as nuisances. They tend to have exaggerated certainty. This contributes to a pedant over-estimating the importance of a correction which can lead one to publicly declare such despite it's insignificance to the actual content of the discussion. See also: nitpicking.

Asking "Shouldn't it be 'whomever'?" in the Chatterbox seems a more appropriate approach for this particular distraction. Though, it appears that fewer would have been amused by you in that case.

[Anonymous Monk]

Perlmonks has had a very long history of pedantry. Pedantry is always welcome here as we all learn as we go. If you perceive this as nitpicking then great, you deserve to be annoyed.

Having said all that pedantry, yes the CB would have been the place to ask. WhoMever started this should be punished by implementing a Perlmonks "Sandy finder."

-W