And on that same note, I'm sure if you hired him as a consultant and paid him to answer your questions, you would probably get much less terse answers, and he might even buy you flowers when he hurt your feelings. :)

merlyn isn't your peer, or even your friend.

To clarify: He is not your peer, but he is acting as if he were your friend: A good friend is someone who dares to tell you that your code is crap. :)

(That is a general statement, not related to the code in question)

I don't know neither pg or merlyn in person, but I don't think merlyn come here as your friend.

There was one day, this guy was shouting in the chatroom, because one of his post was down voted. He was saying something like "sometime, I don't really want to stay any more". Of course, on the other hand, he was also saying "It is not about XP point"

Well, whether it is about XP point, god knows, he knows, everybody can judge yourself. I don't want to comment anonymously.

But the moment merlyn said he wanted to leave, I was thinking "who cares", to most of the people here, life will go on as usual. We will not lose anything becasue any single monk's leave. On the other hand, it could be a really good thing, if we have one less such person, whose idea seems important just because his XP point.

I am not attacking merlyn, I would say the same thing, if this is about another monk. This is not about any single person, this is about the health of this site.

I'd refrain from the "we" as long as you choose to hide behind your trolling posts as an Anonymous Monk.