I'm definitely of two minds about this. For a while, I was the "OT" Monk because I was posting so many things that were OT. Some monks were not happy about that (particularly since I was getting a lot of XP from it), but others were quite happy to see the things that I posted (as evidenced by the fact that I was getting a lot of XP from it). In fact, if you go to my write ups and order them by highest rep you'll see that many of them are marked (OT). If you go to those write ups and read them you will likely agree that most, if not all of them are of at least peripheral interest to the sort of people who use this site.

On that basis alone, I can say that I have no problem with OT. So why of would I be of two minds about it? Let's face it. I've been hanging out here for years and I have a bit of a *cough* reputation. While I can argue that people should judge nodes based upon content, the reality is that I can quite possibly get away with more because people see that I am the one posting it. This makes me feel a bit awkward about some of those posts and my posts probably should not be held up as evidence that such posts are tolerable per se. However, I'm pretty laid back about what should and should not be on Perl Monks and after being here for about four years, all I can say is that things tend to get off-topic for a while, but they always come back to Perl.

... though I note that the huge flame wars of the past appear to have died down. Much less drama ...

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re: don't be nervous about OT by Ovid
in thread don't be nervous about OT by pg

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