@brennen thanks for reaching out, I appreciate it!

I agree that there's a ton of rule wankers. It drives me crazy—I would love to mark comments as not helpful/nice.

I also, in the p2p spirit, offer to peer-review any question you might think about asking on StackOverflow. I realize most my suggestions would be like "Make sure you preempt the snark by saying 'X/Y/Z aren't related, here's why'", which is symptomatic of culture problems, but I hope I could improve the question at least a bit.