Though most of the evidence has now been expunged, one funny incident I remember is the strange case of the Unix module. When originally uploaded, the author was predictably flamed on cpanratings for trampling wantonly on the global namespace. It became bizarre when the author explained that the name Unix was chosen, not because it had anything to do with Unix, but because it was "Unix inspired". It moved from bizarre to surreal when the author published a rebuttal of the cpanrating criticisms in the Unix module's POD. As you might expect, this led to yet more cpanratings flames, this time for perverted use of POD. :-) Evidence of this can still be found at cpanratings (Unix-0.02) (scroll down to the Unix-0.02 entry).