I am stepping down from Perl Steering Council and Core
It sounds like this person got sick of “Sea Lioning” — where you make a statement of opinion and are harangued into backing it up in detail, and if you won’t (or you do, but it’s not to the sea-lioner’s taste) you’re basically called a liar, idiot, or something worse.<p>It’s especially annoying when you’re a subject matter expert and the people you’re arguing with are not - often they don’t even have the requisite knowledge to understand the salience of your arguments so you either have to dumb everything down (at which point you’re now arguing with some analogy) or provide a litany of background data which is time consuming and unlikely to be read or understood by the people arguing with you.