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in reply to Re^2: Do not understand code
in thread Do not understand code
Gentlemen, I think some of the points written by mr. Robinson are in fact valid, albeit surrounded by a lot of "cute statements". I believe it would be correct to point out present mistakes in the node, however I do not think it is correct to just let bad blood flow in this forum.
Having said that, thank you all for help you provide to others. It means a lot to people like me. |
All you need to know about SundialSvc4
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 29, 2017 at 10:59 UTC
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> I do not think it is correct to just let bad blood flow in this forum.
Imagine a self proclaimed driving instructor from England - obsessive and deaf - constantly preaching to continental students to drive on the left side. *
> I believe it would be correct to point out present mistakes in the node,
These corrections bind more energy than feeding all the other trolls together, because you can't leave them uncommented.
Just have a look at Worst Nodes of The Year ²
And the proportion of his negative posts is astronomic. ³
> however I do not think it is correct to just let bad blood flow in this forum.
A lot has been said and proposed already, even automatically marking or reaping exceptionally negative posts.
But if you think "some of the points ... are in fact valid" you are welcome to put your energy into discussing them.
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*) well imagine a Brexiter "politician" giving all his jingoistic speeches in public in Europe ...
²) now try to imagine worst nodes of the last years.
³) almost one quarter of his posts are negative, far more have been down-voted at least once.
It's obvious that almost everybody is relieved when he doesn't show up and practically nobody would miss him.
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Imagine an self proclaimed driving instructor from England - obsessive and deaf - constantly preaching to continental students to drive on the left side.
This is sundial in a nutshell. If you're unfamiliar with his antics, you might think we're too hard on him. But we've beaten our heads against the wall of his obstinacy for so long that there's nothing left for us to do but laugh.
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Well I should have added "without valid driving licence" , since AFAIK he has never shown us any working code.
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... and this thread, by contrast, has relevant, working code at almost every node (not!)
Enough awready!
sundialsvc4 may not be your favorite monk, but despite some of the well-justified recent critiques, he did sometimes post useful (i.e., relevant) and correct code or info in the past. And if he's verbose to a fault and recently is guilty of expressing himself in an egotistical or arrogant manner, he's also become the target of much trollery, ad hominem attacks and other comments that reflect badly on PM.
So, even if you're convinced that he's a troll, ignore; as the wisdom of the Monastery has it,
"Don't feed the trolls.'
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> he did sometimes post useful (i.e., relevant) and correct code
Let's talk about facts:
This search returns his posts with <code> tags* so far
?node_id=3989;BIT=%3Ccode%3E;a=sundialsvc4;yr=2017;mo=09;dy=29 (click search )
Please note that
- the first 50 go back to July 2014, he wrote 1000 posts since then
- that many of them contain no Perl, but pseudo code or no code
- if it's supposed to be Perl it's often untested guess work
- that most technical contributions provoked negative replies correcting him
I even quickly stumbled over one post which was left uncorrected, where he confused qw with qr -> Re: Adding missing values into a hash
See also what others had to say: Re^2: Two sort in single Array set
> "Don't feed the trolls.'
I'm not feeding him, as a matter of fact I'm even technically filtering him from my RAT view.
In other words I can't even downvote him, because he's mostly invisible.
*) in case you are wondering, he never used <c>
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Re^4: Do not understand code
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 29, 2017 at 07:17 UTC
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ok, the hate he gets doesn't make this place look friendly, but he is a troll, it's what he wants | [reply] |
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