Question #1... i think having something written is a good idea; it have not to be precise and verbose, just to understand the idea behind.

I think that we can have something like the list posted by BrowserUk and YourMother.

I posted the poll idea just to stimulate a debat about the matter because i read many threads in the recent past about offtopicness presence here. I still think the poll is worth to be published, even better in September when almost all monks are back from summer holidays. After poll results you can (if you want and have time) write down a little manifesto of permitted or not offtopicness.

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