This irks me to no end. It seems like unnecessary self aggrandizement

Your attitude is far more harmful. In my opinion, there should be about 50 posts in Perl Announcements a day, it would add a lot more value to the site. Your suppression of information based on the warped perspective that only the very most important info should be posted does far more damage. Your attempt to maintain your precious database "integrity" is a joke.

As for reasons to allow more small announcements try: it adds awareness to to smaller projects, provides publicity for alternatives and prevents people from all using the same bloated code (e.g. CGI.pm), encourages a open discussion of the merits of any given approach, etc etc, etc.

Have you no knowledge of open development processes?

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