RE: Fame, Fortune, Pride, and Vanity

[chromatic]

Wow, that's brilliant. I mean, punishing someone for voting up other people. That's a great way to make the monastery into a place where mistrust, bitterness, and envy rule.

I, for one, haven't exactly been biting my nails waiting for the occasionally-rocky-but-overall-friendly nature of Perl Monks to turn into a newbie-hostile, old-boys network with scads of unwritten rules, cabals, and conspiracies.

If you have a disagreement with someone, take it up with the other person. Don't piss in the community well -- you drink from it too.

I'm not going to defend everything merlyn says, thinks, or does, but I do appreciate his knowledge and experience and the fact that despite hostility from certain quarters, he shares it at no cost. (Not just here on Perl Monks, but via e-mail and on his web site.) You might even ask him what his exact voting criteria are -- I highly doubt he votes up technically incorrect posts.

What have you contributed to the monastery today besides this?

Update: I've thought about this a little, and I'm a little ashamed that I spoke so harsly. I apologize to the rather-harshly pseudonymed monk.

I still think your comments are off the mark, however -- it seems to me that you're guilty of the same sin you accuse others of doing, namely, devoting so much time to the affairs of merlyn.

A single vote per writeup one way or the other doesn't really make a difference, and there are enough of us at higher levels who browse Worst Nodes regularly to counteract any effect you might have with your crusade. I suggest rather that you take what merlyn says with a grain of salt, breathe deeply now and then, and seek to help out other people where you can.

Best regards,
chromatic