Dear Monks,

About once a week( sometimes more ) I see a question that is immediately answered as '...this is off topic, and you should ask on another forum...' which is technically correct.

So why not have an 'OT' section?

I have a lot of respect for the members of this forum, and not so much for other forums. If I see a comment about *nix, JS, HTML, etc., as part of an answer about Perl, I often find that response to be true and a valuable asset to my programming knowledge base.

The OT section should have some relation to Perl, but I would much rather test ideas and comments from this forum, then rely on the *comments* from other forums. There is a wealth of real world knowledge from the Monks on PerlMonks.org, that just can't be duplicated on other forums.

What do you think?

Regards...Ed

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

In reply to [OT] How about an Off Topic Section? by flexvault

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