You've Got (Hate) Mail!

This was so classic, I had to post it for all to see. I've never got hate mail before... Now I know what it must feel like to be Obama! Anyway, here's an excerpt -- it's a response some idiot sent to me regarding a comment I posted about a comment he posted that was out of line (long story but that's neither here nor there...):

I thought i did a pretty good job of insulting every individual AND the community as a whole. I don't really care what you consider what. In the end, your site, jerdigity.whatever shows that you're one of those no hopers or kids that I was talking about. That's not internet. I modified my garland theme to that extent within a week of discovering drupal. Just because it's online, doesn't mean it's a site.
You do seem to have some design talent (looks clean!) so I'd say take jer-whatever.com offline and get your design site up (august 8th?). That's one type of website that drupal <i>can</i> handle. Low traffic, no extra functionality, the internet equivalent of a wall poster.

FTR. I've never posted abuse like this online before. I don't troll, I've actively tried to preserve my reputation on drupal.org since I already found it so hard to get help. The truth is though, no matter what....there was no help, except in the form of other people like me pointing out modules. I soon realised that I couldn't just add a module for every little thing that I found I needed, so I wanted real help. I found that unless I was an active module maintainer I would get no answer to simple logical questions about how Drupal (or any of it's behemoth modules) works. I battled through myself and after 6 months or so, I found I could write php well enough to completely rewrite all the functionality I need. Gmap, notifications, messaging, activity....every one of those bloated modules could be condensed into about one tenth of their size (or 3 modules into 1) without worrying about views integration and so on. So now, I don't need drupal and I'm being honest about the terrible terrible time I had trying to do something of any real seriousness with it.

I think there is something seriously wrong with Drupal, and while it forced me to learn things I wouldn't have otherwise, I still wish I'd just started with ruby on rails or another tool that I originally thought was too far above me...

I could just read that over and over for days until it wasn't funny anymore... Then wait like a month and read it again and it'd be just as funny as ever. Especially the part where he used the incorrect HTML markup ("<i></i>" instead of "<em></em>").