My advice is that you never, never, never want to try to convince someone online by the claim to authority, I do this for a living.

A very large fraction of us do this for a living. Most people who do this for a living suck at it. The competent ones are painfully aware of that. Furthermore when they see an unknown person online falling back to argument from such spurious authority, it raises immediate red flags. If you are truly an expert, why can't you come up with something concrete rather than a vague catchall like that?

Therefore no matter what the temptation, don't start raising claims of being a professional. It only hurts your case.

Update: Tyop correction.

In reply to Re: Re: The scope of templates by tilly
in thread I need a title - sucka! :-) by PetaMem

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.