in reply to Why does PerlMonks work?

It's not so much the site as the audience. It's quite "in-crowd". A relative small group of Perl users tend to group together, and hence the popularity of the Perl usenet groups, #perl, the mailing lists, the Mongers groups, websites like this and use.perl.org, and the conferences. But you see the same people over and over again.

Abigail