"You and your ilk are a tiny minority trying to impose your opinion upon the majority who actively and vocally disagree with you."
I will no longer be participating at Perlmonks.
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About Joe McMahon
Blogging about Perl, wandering off into compatibility issues with other things, like Python and Django.
What comment thread are you referring to? (re your comments before you removed most of the post)
A good friend has noted that she started getting a lot more done on things she cares about when she cut out participating in things that made her angry or upset. I think this is a good idea.
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1074069
I was asked "why try to make a technical change to solve a social problem?". I answered the question. I allowed myself to get angry when the line I used as the title was posted; I should have simply walked away at that point.
Was the social problem "people are jerks on the internet", or more nuanced than that?
More that I contradicted their belief that everything's perfectly fine at Perlmonks, and I think they didn't like it.
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It seems to be personal. Not sure why.