The module author is free to disregard the request (and I don't mean that in a snarky way) without explanation. Common courtesy, however, demands a different tone in his reply. He very deliberately thumbed his nose. All he needed to say was "No, I'm not supporting MakeMaker". Instead, he acted like a child.

Howdy!

And have you stopped beathing your wife, Anonymous Monk?

The anonymous winge that I replied to had nothing to do with whether or not merlyn's post was appropriate to Meditations; it had to do with the "discussion" merlyn had with the module author.

I made no statement, express or implied, about whether this belongs in Meditations. (well, I sort of did elsewhere, but not in the subthread you cite)

Going off on a tangent, this thread has drawn an unusual number of anonymous replies. I suppose that many people feel a need to get in digs without taking responsibility for them. Cowardice comes to mind...

Update: the reasons articulated by the anonymous respondants for posting as AM do not refute my thesis...and I didn't think it was worth a whole node to say so...

yours,
Michael

Different anonymous poster.

Cowardice comes to mind...

Or maybe people feel the need to point out the blatantly obvious flaws with merlyn's approach but do not want to associate even an online alias with the sad state of the thread.

This also comes to mind (note the +5 Anonymous response).

Going off on a tangent, this thread has drawn an unusual number of anonymous replies. I suppose that many people feel a need to get in digs without taking responsibility for them. Cowardice comes to mind...




Oh puhhhleeaze. Do you have any conception of how many monks left permanently, and returned AM? I mean, Tilly is the obvious example, but there are dozens of AMs who used to be real monks and just got sick of the politics, the XP stuff, and so forth. It's just easier to focus on the code as an AM.

If you are suggesting that most AMs aren't as scared to comment on controversial issues involving important people, you are probably right. So what? Why do you have to leap to the assumption that these are "cowards"?

In fact, the mere idea that lots of AMs felt more free to comment than regular monks is a troubling sign.

Finally, to make my point, I didn't bother commenting on this thread until I read this post. Why? Well, it's a freaking ACME module. As Tilly said earlier, Merlyn is doing us a favour in QA/QC -- that's the core of this meditation, not all this stuff about who-said-what-when-and-how.