Just having seen This node here, I wonder that maybe it would be an improvement if it was declared on the frontpage or another place often seen, that perlmonks is a community, not a place where people can come and demand that we supply free code. Does anyone else find it annoying that people who want free code use a search engine with a couple of keywords and find this site and assume that we write complete programs for free? Maybe not even annoying, just... unnerving.

That link I supplied links to a recently reaped node in which the author seems to have specifically registered a username just to ask us to write up a full program for him that manages zip codes. (ie: he created the username and immediately posted that question).

To cruisinman: If I am indeed wrong and you want to become a member of the community, that's great! We can always use more people around here :). But you should know just one thing: around here, we're more about helping each other out with snippets of code and helping with problems that arise when coding something. As members of this site, we are not paid for any of the work we provide here. It is all offered up for free: we are not work-for-non-hire people :)

Then again, if you had mentioned in your post, "I'm willing to pay xxx dollars for someone to write this for me", then it might have been received a bit better, though maybe not. I might recommend to cruisinman that he visit http://jobs.perl.org. And as for posting a reply to his post or /msg'ing him, I'd rather not. If he's here to be a part of the site, then he'll come across this post himself :)

In reply to PerlMonks is not a place to go for free code by Coruscate

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