I think you have some misconceptions operating here. First off, XP is a property of users, reputation is a property of postings. Replys don't get XP, the author of the reply gets XP based on the node-reputation votes that occur.

Second, I think it was you who threw the tantrum in the oracle thread. (If not then I apologise unreservedly.) You made a comment there that said something along the line of "the original poster has been cheated". Well, when you come to a community site and ask for help of volunteers (which is what you are doing by coming here pretty much) you get what people are willing to give, and whatever it is its more than you started with and you paid nothing, so to say someone was cheated indicates that you fundamentally don't understand what a community help site is about.

If you want to be in a position where you can rightfully claim you have been cheated then go find some hot-shot perl programmer and PAY THEM TO HELP YOU. Don't come to a self help community and then throw a freaking tantrum over the perceived quality of the responses, especially not when the question doesnt actually directly pertain to the sites chosen subject.

I also think its worth pointing out that the response given wasn't wrong. It may have been glib, but it wasn't wrong. It basically said "have you turned on automatic error reporting" and implied "if you have and aren't getting an error then there probably wasn't an error". And as perrin was apparently correct, there was no error and the matter had nothing to do with perl.

Lastly, while it may annoy you to read "incorrect answers" it annoys the community much much much more when some troll posts a bunch of personal attacks and ignores that they are all getting reaped for being bullshit noise. If anybody did anything wrong here it was you. (earlier caveat about it not being you applies :-)

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In reply to Re^3: To help not to misguide by demerphq
in thread To help not to misguide by c_chipster

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