opensourcer:

I doubt it was the asking for help that triggered it. I suspect it was more that you've been around here long enough to know how to ask better questions. In the original post, you might have mentioned that you found some examples which weren't useful, and *why* they weren't useful. That may have elicited pointers to examples that could have helped in those areas. At the time I'm writing this, I still don't know which examples you found, nor why they're useless to you.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

interestingly asking for help has triggered negative rating ( -- ). I might get -- again for saying this :)

Well, outside of Perl Monks Discussion , talking about votes is considered off topic, see Where should I post X?, Why did I get downvoted?

Why sabotage yourself?