Re^3: Terminal decline?

Embedded images? Embedded videos? Realtime streaming? Live video chats? Wow. Just imagine the wonderful new levels of spammy intrusion.

You may think that this being a monastery is just a metaphor. However for most of us it is a place of learning, mutual co-operation and quiet contemplation. The day this site turns into the facebook-on-acid which you have suggested here is the day I shall leave.

a Javascript Plugin for posting (you know, without having to write HTML by hand)

Such things exist already as browser add-ons for those who feel the need. What I would rather see is that use of the preview button is enforced on first-time and anonymous posters (or even on all root nodes). That might just cut down on some of the format-free postings, you never know.

This site is a brilliant resource. Don't kill it with the shiny.

Just my tuppence.

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Re^4: Terminal decline? by cavac (Prior) on Jun 12, 2015 at 11:40 UTC
Let me clarify a bit: When i talked about streaming and video chats, i didn't mean within the perlmonks.org site, but maybe have a an agreement where and how to do it and schedule some common activities. We might even think about doing some streamed charity event, like a "24-hour coding against hunger" where multiple monks host a show and we do some live coding and chatting with the community, all proceeds go to some charity. That sort of thing. Helps people and brings perlmonks back into the eyes of the world. As for embedded video and images, requiring the monks to be at least level (?something?) to have that feature would make sure they're only posted by senior monks when embedding such files is actually required or are the best for to present a solution/example. "For me, programming in Perl is like my cooking. The result may not always taste nice, but it's quick, painless and it get's food on the table."	[reply]

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Re^4: Terminal decline?
by cavac (Prior) on Jun 12, 2015 at 11:40 UTC

Let me clarify a bit: When i talked about streaming and video chats, i didn't mean within the perlmonks.org site, but maybe have a an agreement where and how to do it and schedule some common activities.

We might even think about doing some streamed charity event, like a "24-hour coding against hunger" where multiple monks host a show and we do some live coding and chatting with the community, all proceeds go to some charity. That sort of thing. Helps people and brings perlmonks back into the eyes of the world.

As for embedded video and images, requiring the monks to be at least level (?something?) to have that feature would make sure they're only posted by senior monks when embedding such files is actually required or are the best for to present a solution/example.

"For me, programming in Perl is like my cooking. The result may not always taste nice, but it's quick, painless and it get's food on the table."

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