I personally believe that as funny as it may seem, most (reasonable) people seemed not to have a problem with it.

I, for one, am completely sick of reading it. If I could killfile you, I would.

I personally believe that I can understand your pov and I suppose I'll get tired, too, first or later. OTOH I'm moderately, mildly or even completely (depending on the actual case) sick of

• "n00bz" who ask clueless questions;
• IM talk;
• problems that could be solved by a judicious use of strict and/or warnings;
• unchecked opens;
• XY problems;
• whiners who complain about alleged elitism in Perl circles, when given good advice;
• freaks;
• people who argue with freaks;
• Apache configuration questions asked as if they were Perl questions;
• HTML questions asked as if they were Perl questions;
• SQL questions asked as if they were Perl questions;
• excellent Perl hackers requiring (cranky) rules about the usage of their name (e.g. wrt capitalization) which conflict with those of the language they express themselves;
• excellent Perl hackers who use custom quote signs that no commonly widespread newsreader can recognize;
• excellent Perl hackers who write all lowercase like kidiots, while not being;
• etc.

Anyway, I find that discussions affected by any of the above can (sometimes unexpectedly) bring up some interesting bits. This very sub-thread gave our fellow monk kelan the opportunity to post an interesting piece of information, and I have the arrogance to believe that even some posts of mine will have something interesting to say and that a tiny bit of cranky habit of my own -compared to stuff as annoying as the above- shouldn't hinder it.

Eventually, even Kevin_Raymer can be useful, as a continuous source of fun.

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If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.

I have the arrogance to believe that even some posts of mine will have something interesting to say and that a tiny bit of cranky habit of my own -compared to stuff as annoying as the above- shouldn't hinder it.

In my case, you're wrong, but thanks to kelan I don't have to care anymore, ever. Show business is kind of cruel, isn't it?

You can get fairly close by adding the following to your personal CSS:

.pmnote-409850 { display: none }
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