One gets the mental picture of you being a very haughty person who doles out information when absolutely neccesary, and then it's always with the inflection of "why am I bothering with you?" Granted, I'm sure you're not like this, but this is the impression I've gotten from your participation on this site.

That's really not like I am in person. The people here who've met me in person will certainly tell you that.

I find it curious that you've gotten that impression, and wonder what it is about the medium or the mechanism that so alters how I come across so that you'd conclude that.

This is truly a quest for me. I'm looking at how online communities interact as part of a research project I'm on. That's probably why this personality voting thing has really got my goat, because it seems to be a flaw in an otherwise very useful system.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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