in reply to [OT] How about an Off Topic Section?

Hmm, I have upvoted your post, because I think it is a good idea to ask the question, but I am not completely convinced it is really a good idea.

The real added-value of Perl Monks is really the deep collective knowledge of the collective monks on Perl.

Of course, PM monks collectively have many other competencies. For example, I am sometimes able to answer questions about Unix or sh or bash or or awk or vi or some even more specialized issues (and I do when I can). But am I an expert on these? Not really, most of the time (as an example, I have forgotten almost everything I knew about Python and awk ever since I took up Perl about 12 or 13 years ago). Collectively, people on a Linux forum are more likely to give better answers. Others can respond to Windows questions. But my point is that, on a real Perl question, I think that Perl Monks is really unbeatable (at least on average). But if the question is really off-topics, I am not sure that we are any better than other more specialized forums.

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by flexvault (Monsignor) on Jun 05, 2015 at 21:21 UTC

    Laurent_R,

      The real added-value of Perl Monks is really the deep collective knowledge of the collective monks on Perl.
    And I agree!

      But am I an expert on these? Not really.
    But your answers are meant to help, and that sets PM apart, IMHO!

    Because I'm here a lot, I know the monks that want to help and those that want to talk. It helps to put a validity check on the comments/code and whether I want to spend valuable time investigating their solution.

    Regards...Ed

    "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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      Well, dear flexvault, I hope you put me among the category of the monks that want to help. At least, that's what I am trying to do most of the time, although it might happen sometimes that I might be unreceptive. Hopefully very rarely.
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        Laurent_R,

        I answered you privately, and then realized that future monks might want to know who (IMHO) good responders are and you are one of many monks that I believe take the time to give honest well thought-out comments/code/etc. to help fellow monks/newbies/etc.

        It's the quality of the responders that make PM a treasure!

        Regards...Ed

        "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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