My impression is that most of the OT nodes here are actually very restrained. To me there are two types of OT:

  1. Topics that are high than Perl, but related to Perl, sort of meta-questions. For examples, what are the best platforms for web development; How to do version control; Principles concerning OO programming in general, etc. It is fine to mark them OT, but I would like to see those topics being discussed here, and I welcome them.
  2. People might come to ask a question about HTML tag, or even JavaScript, or Java. For this kind of OT, this is really the wrong place.

Personally, I feel it is not fun and not wise, if we ban the first type of OT. Have an OT section does not really change anything, probably people will start to ask questions about COBOL in OT section ;-)

In reply to Re: "Off Topic" nodes by pg
in thread "Off Topic" nodes by CountZero

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