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No Jihaad has been called.
No one is scheduled for sacrifice. That said, please allow me to continue the argument. > How is one psuedonym ok but two are bad? > And your belief in "schemes" shouldn't require
him to deny it. Prove he had a prior motive to slam perl
or stop maligning him by implying otherwise. > Conned? How were you conned? If the posts stand
on their own, how did not knowing it was princepawn "con"
you. If a person pretends to be something he's not, for an explicit purpose involving other people, we consider that "to con." The person is a "con-artist" in that he (or she) uses a variety of emotional and mental techniques to convince the "victim" of some concept, or some opinion. Like "buy this cure-all" or "I'm not too bright, you can trust me" or "the Earth is flat." You get the idea. princepawn has said "...being princepawn has been a keen insight into human nature." The context implies that he was masquerading as princepawn to prove a point, mainly that "certain people will attack you blindly and hatefully after awhile even if you are correct." Furthermore, he has said that his alter ego, metaperl, is "proof of [his] ability to 'go with the flow'." From the above we can surmise the following: The two versions of the person we know online as princepawn and metaperl are inherently different. By reading their posts we can see that both are reasonably intelligent when it comes to Perl as a language, yet one seems "unable to connect the dots" as far as programming concepts and PerlMonks behaviour (researching before asking questions). From the reputations and experiences of both, we can see that one is generally well-accepted (we will call this, metaperl, the 'true' identity) and the other is not (princepawn, the 'false' identity). By true and false I mean relative to how this person is in real life. The fact of the matter may be that both are false, but for the sake of my argument I'm going to name one false and one true. Before princepawn's revelation, we all lived in blissful ignorance, thinking that princepawn is/was a intelligent, if rude and inane at times, Perl programmer. He made outrageous claims1 about Perl fallacies, he infrequently "did his homework" before posting a question2 to Seekers of Perl Wisdom. The end result of his presence on PerlMonks was aggravation and wasted time on behalf of many monks here. Monks that would defend Perl from his attacks1 and answer his unresearched questions. Now we find that the false identity, princepawn, was actually a front for the true identity, metaperl. What does this mean? Well, it means that princepawn was pretending to be this intelligent, if rude and inane at times, Perl programmer, who couldn't seem to connect the dots on basic programming concepts, and never did his homework before posting a question to Seekers of Perl Wisdom. He had us all fooled into believing this. Why did he do this? To prove a point. The end result? Wasted time of many monks, to answer the fake questions and fake claims of Perl fallicies. To prove his point, apparently. We were conned. Swindled, manipulated, cajoled, persuaded. (From http://m-w.com.) See above for a more complete definition. Time, valuable time (my time is not valuable, so I have no trouble taking time to write this :) was wasted. All to prove a point. (Yes, I know I'm repeating myself. I'm trying to drive this point home!) Do you understand what I am trying to say, now? What now? Well, the way I see it, there are a few options.
I'm done. I have no more to say. This is the last post I will be making on the subject of princepawn for a long, long while. This is not my crusade, this is not my flame war. This is just my opinion. I am upset and frustrated, and now I hope you understand why. Friar Alakaboo1. Attacks on PerlThis is not a complete list, merely a sampling of recent entries.
2. QuestionsAgain, not a complete list, just a sampling of the questions and answers that could have easily been answered in the chatterbox, found with a Super Search, or found with a quick perusing through the Perl docs.
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