You are depicting ptkdb as a martyr of unjust persecution, but in fact he's only victim of his own excess of pride.

In the case you are mentioning, any sane person should have added an "untested" label and let it go. But no, ptkdb reacted to davido's childish remarks in a even more childish way. Both of them were changing their posts to create a favorable case, thus coming to the unfortunate complain of Code Blocks.

But ptkdb was not at his first experience. Look at Tales from the Crypt, 'use strict' Horror Stories. He posted a stupid question, most likely misunderstanding his own intentions. Then after two saints made clear that he was completely off track, he claimed that he was saying the opposite of what he actually said.

Summing up, there was some overreaction from somebody, but it's also true that ptkdb also made things worse, by placing the blame on the Monastery for his faults. And then, what was just a kids' caprice became a global issue.

About ptkdb being wrong or not, I don't believe that the standard of his question was really high, but this is not the point, and the point isn't competition either, because davido's nitpicks about irrelevant style points are as unpleasant as ptkdb complaints. The point is that the Monastery is based upon a standard of quality that is kept high thanks to two elements: the XP and the dialog.

One of the things that should not be tolerated here is a wrong answer. In these cases, many monks have been abused by more knowledgeable people, such as merlyn and Abigail-II, and even though these remarks may seem unpleasant, they are necessary and healthy for the Monastery as a whole. If you make a mistake, and somebody points it to you, you should accept it and learn from it, and life goes on.

What went wrong in this particular case was that the one pointing at the mistake is also somebody who is often involved in mistakes and does not take criticism well, (he changes the contents of his nodes when somebody points at them). Therefore, in this fight between egos the real victim was the Monastery, which reacted in the only way it could, i.e. by taking on the one who was screaming louder.