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Currently, OT posts are merely tolerated. I am in favor of a OT section because that would mean they are actually promoted.
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Re^4: [OT] How about an Off Topic Section?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 09, 2015 at 23:10 UTC

    Sure, they're currently "tolerated" in the sense that undoubtedly somebody will show up to point out they're OT -- heck i've pointed it out myself

    And I'm sure they'll get plenty of downvotes for being OT

    If there was an official OT section, I agree , it would be promotional, and anyone complaining about it would be OT

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      And I'm sure they'll get plenty of downvotes for being OT

      Checking the most recent posts marked "OT", we get vote tallies of: 

      +4-6, +4-5, +3-4, +2-4
+2-2
+2-1,  +7-1,  +9-1,  +12-0, +14-1, +15-1, +16-0, +18-0, +18-1,
+18-1, +18-1, +20-1, +24-0, +26-3, +26-3, +28-0, +32-1, +48-0

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      Only 17% even managed to garner a negative reputation, and each of those just barely so. And I'd guess that 2 of those 4 were down-voted mostly for reasons other than being off-topic.

      Your certainty appears to be unfounded.

      - tye        

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Re^4: [OT] How about an Off Topic Section?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 09, 2015 at 23:37 UTC
    But what are you trying to promote? Your politics? Because that is what will happen. A bunch of monks advocating and arguing about political causes.

    We do not need an OT section because we need more posts about Perl. Not less.

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      Well, I have the opinion that when you get together a group of people with some common interest they would probably have interesting (for them) conversations about things both related and unrelated to that common interest.
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        An OT section is not necessary for that, because Perlmonks has been allowing people of a common interest (Perl) to have related and unrelated conversations longer than you have been a member.
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