Re: Re: On Two Years of Silence...

[Anonymous Monk]

This is exactly what is wrong with Perlmonks and a great deal of other forums. You end up with people spitting out the same old drivel over and over and over again. 95% of the people have no idea what they're talking about, but nobody's disagreed with them so far, so they must be right, right?

Wrong. The people that could correct you don't bother. They have better things to do.

I could go on for about a couple megs or so about consequences and variations of this, but I have better things to do. And yes, I am an elitist asshole.

[zby]

That was a joke. But anyway I don't understand what you are talking about. I can't imagine how the jokingly proposed algorithm would lead to stagnation and 'spitting the same old drivel'.

[Anonymous Monk]

Actually sometimes the people who can correct you, actually do so around here. They (eg merlyn, Abigail-II) often start spats by doing so, but they do it anyways.

That occasional preventative for the human tendancy towards groupthink is an essential part of what gives PM value.

Not that I expect a self-described elitist asshole to pay enough attention to notice that this really does happen...