As a saint here, and possibly as a "respected" person, ....
In regards to the above quote: You're a saint, and as a saint ( as with all saints ), are expected to not pull childish stunts. If some newbie came through and saw that, then started throwing images into their post titles, it could have caused mayhem. As it stands, Tim had to strip your title which caused certain problems. Links were broken ( i.e. "In reply to:" links ). It's not putting you on a pedestal it's expecting you to do the equivalent of "acting your age" when it comes into the monestary.
As for the "respect" bit, you are at times referred to a respected person in the perl community ... and again if some newbie comes in and says, "Hey merlyn does it, it must be good," then they might repeat the seemingly innocuous act.

And I'll be honest, I learned Perl from your ORA Learning Perl book, and respected you for it. But when I got here, through a series of events, I turned to not respecting you whatsoever and blatantly disliking you. This is of course only my personal feelings. I don't discount your abilities as a programmer, so don't take any disrespect to that...I still use Learning Perl from time to time. I just don't like you whatsoever, and thus it would be hard to put you up on a pedestal

Note: These are my feelings. If you're new here don't base any thoughts of Randal ( or anyone else! )using what I feel or say, as with everything make your own judgements for what you feel.
Macphisto the I.T. Ninja

Everyone has their demons....

In reply to Re: No more "saint complaints" will be heard by Macphisto
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