Dear Monks,

While I was browsing the monastery, I found my last comment (basically a reply which says, "please search in internet before posting") with negative reputation.

My first impression was "waw! what did I wrong??"

Now reading "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" description, I understand it. Description does not invite to do any research before posting the question, so some monks sees my reply with wrong eyes (or maybe there are other issues which I possibly missed?)

What I'm proposing here is updating the description. I can understand that search engine wasn't very powerful when Perlmonks started. But now it is another history.

So I think monastery could replace this part of the description (of course if other monks agree and there is a consensus):

Original:

/If you have a question on how to do something in Perl/ ...
Modified (or somethink like it):

$& ,and you did not find the reply to your question in a fast search in Internet, perldoc, or supersearch ...

What do you think about?

Thank you!

In reply to RFC: Review of "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" description? by i5513

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