Sorry, but beginners@perl.org is not perlmonks.org

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Cody Fendant wanted to know where to find the flame-war which inspired this

That is not appropriate for Node Type: perlquestion.

As written, I feel it is not appropriate for Perl Monks Discussion or Meditations either, though as Corion hinted, it could have been used as an inspiration for a monkdiscuss/perlmeditation posting, like "Should we adopt rules regarding ...?", "How to moderate ...", "Do you consider this rude, how do you deal?"