You are right. Many a times posting Perl news articles that are accessible on numerous other perl/technology sites is (sometimes rightly so) considered as xp whoring. Unless there's an exceptionally good article that has significant bearing on daily activities of the monastery dwellers, I see no reason for duplicating an article here or making up a node containing nothing more than a link in it, occasionally accompanied by a few words.

To me it seems like there's no real need in doing so, cjf. Why would we want duplicate content when most likely many of monks here would still notice and read the article some place else? What I don't like, sometimes, is when monks borrow articles from slashdot submissions (or other sites) and post them here, in hopes of... err... getting extra xps, for instance. Simply no need. If i'm a perl hacker, odds are overwhelming that I would have seen the article once or twice before noticing it on perlmonks.

In any event, this is only my personal opinion ;).

"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith

In reply to Re: Perl articles section by vladb
in thread Perl articles section by cjf

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