To many people think that the module they made is like their own child and if your that way I hope you both die in a tragic accident, because if you can take constructed criticism of your module and improve it then your finally on your way to a true developer.
I have worked on open source projects and had to deal with pig-headed people that think their "Sh^t don't stink" but come to find out they where just dump. I have been fighting in the front lines of web security with Perl even before "2004" version history of contributors. When I tell you there is a security hole somewhere you better believe me or you can wallow in the mess you and your child made.
I don't think of my modules as my baby or child, because I'm a lot more open minded to reality then those other people.
But the fact that the Perl troll army is after me because I rate my own module and/or they just don't like how blatantly truthful I am. It does get extremely out of control when the trolls start attacking someone that was only trying to help.

I was drawn to "The Monastery" because of the Perl help and some one said they where nice, but for every new Monk there is some amount of needless hazing to the new member and a lot of those new members truly think those people don't like them. Well it really has a lot to do with some of the less newer members being deeply bitter at heart.

So if you want good XP in "The Monastery" you have to brown nose every member, like a lot of people do. Where actually earning the respect is a more noble path that is less taken in "The Monastery".

In reply to Modules you build yourself = Your Child by SFLEX

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.