I think that if it was widely known that people as wise and helpful as the monks were willing to answer questions about just about anything here, this site would no longer be about Perl! Instead, the Perl content would be drowned in information that would be better provided in other forums.

Update: I think I'm still opposed to the idea, in general, but rbc's suggestion that only those of monk level or higher have access could rein in some of the problems. The OT section would have to be completely hidden (rather than being read-only for lower levels); otherwise, when they found they couldn't post there, the OT stuff would find its way (more than usual) to SOPW.

Impossible Robot

In reply to Re: Off Topic section by impossiblerobot
in thread Off Topic section by rbc

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