There's one hard lesson yet ahead of you: "don't feed the trolls".

In this case, by "troll" I mean anybody who, from your perspective, does you injustice. There will always be people like that, in real life and in the internet. Independently of whether there are downvotes or no. Or as Randall phrases it, someone is WRONG on the internet.

If you want to know why people downvote your stuff, ask in the CB. If there are genuine reasons for downvotes, even people who don't downvote the nodes will see them and tell you. If several monks in the CB can't find reasons, you just have to shrug off the downvotes as trolling.

However starting public discussions in Meditations or Perlmonks Discussions is, in my experience, counter productive. It reminds people too much of a fanatic who shouts "I'm a victim of injustice by the establishment!!!" in the center of town.

Any Monk who posts code that is attempting to help out a fellow (especially new) Monk should be criticized respectfully... that means SHOWING CODE that explains how their code is broken.

The harsh reality is that on perlmonks it is more important to have a useful contribution than trying to help.

However I found that when I actually run the code prior to posting, and it works, then I almost never get downvotes. There's an impartial judge installed as /usr/bin/perl, and you can ask it prior to submitting your answer. If it agrees with you, chances are good that the majority of perlmonks won't take offense.

Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed

In reply to Re: Psychological 'warfare'? by moritz
in thread Psychological 'warfare'? by stevieb

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