I checked this post OT: Happily developing on Windows, thanks to Cygwin, and noticed that Courage did something very interesting to it. He front paged it, and yet at the same time, he considered to mark it OT.

I don't know whether what he did is a common practice here, but what he did makes great sense to me. A good post might be off topic for what this site is about, but it might still worth to be front paged, as it is good. I am not judging this particular case, but Courage's pattern of behavior makes absolute sense.

I remember that one or two weeks ago, there was a post regarding OT. That was the first time OT came to my notice. This time, I got a better understanding, hey it is not a bad thing. OT only menas OT, it is not about good and bad.

In reply to don't be nervous about OT by pg

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