This thread contains a sequence of back&forth repeated all too often on SH, often involving the same screen names.
Once upon a time, I was the senior guy on a newly-formed 6-person system support team. Also on the team were two younger but very competent guys and a not-very-competent but very well-spoken and very well-endowed woman who was, for those reasons (pun definitely intended), very good at getting guys to go along with her imaginative but clueless ideas. I got so sick of trying to talk sense into group discussions that I pretty much quit being calm when she went off on some screwball tangent.
One day, my manager called me in and told me very directly: "It doesn't matter if you're right. You've alienated your entire team. They don't want to work with you. Fix it or you're toast."
So I did. I wish somebody had told me WAY earlier in life that being a factually-correct asshole was an influence-limiting and therefore career-limiting mistake.
OP, there are people on SH who are knowledgeable but seemingly driven to be colossal assholes. They cannot seem to offer input without denigrating people they see as "less." At the end of it, they themselves become less - or nothing - to the community, but they don't learn.
