>>>The key is when somebody makes a mistake, it should be noted in public. After a while, folks either improve, or they stay on the sidelines....
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>>If only ...
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>>I spend a lot less time here now, following the amount of abuse I received from one MVP for pointing out a potential serious fault with a piece of code he posted. It was a routine that checked validity of filenames, the typo's I could live with, but it had the possible side-effect of deleting any existing file with the same name. I thought this was serious enough to warn the recipient about. The amount of abuse I received was intolerable - and I see the particular MVP is still about & boasting about upsetting people (Ed Rauh, if you couldn't guess).
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>I found the message I believe you are referring to. If this is incorrect, please let me know:
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>"Once you've sorted out the deliberate errors in the above code"
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>Yeah, who could possibly be upset when you accuse them of deliberately putting errors in the code?

It is fairly common within Britain to refer to incredibly trivial errors as "deliberate mistakes", on the basis that the person is obviously far too clever to have made that sort of mistake, therefore it must be deliberate. (At least it's common with all of the people that I know, across a wide part of the country). I keep forgetting, there is a great cultural divide, especially where humour is concerned.

The message went on to point out the far from trivial fault that the routine could cause the deletion of files. Pointing out this fault was a major crime as well, apparently.

At the end of the day, Ed Rauh is simply a rude, obnoxious bully, with an overinflated view of his own ability. Or maybe this is another cultural divide, once you get to a certain ability (not that I think he has), you can be as rude as you want & people will defend your right to be so - it's different here in Britain.