in reply to Why I keep coming back

I read this forum to keep being exposed to randomness. Ok, that sounds strange, but if you do the same thing all the time you get stuck in a rut. It's nice to see what other people are working on, what problems they have, and so on. Occasionally I have a response, and less occcasionally I might have a question, but in all, it's a good way to keep up with things.

I wish other languages had forums as good as this. Sun seems to have a lot of Indian Outsourcers looking for an education from layed off americans, IMHO, and that just rubs me the wrong way. People here want to learn, not get handouts, and I admire that. On the downside, one complaint I do have about PerlMonks is often people take this forum waaaaaaaaay too seriously, and that can make one feel he has to reread his post 5 times over so he won't make a mistake, or wonder if Monk12345 will take him to task for thinking differently. I see a lot of people feeling like they have to strike through their posts and apologize a lot. This has made me want to leave on occasion.

But in all, it's a decent place, and it's very exciting to see what many folks are doing here. I learn stuff here so much more than other web sites I visit (even technical ones), and that says a lot about the quality of content at PerlMonks.

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Re: Re: Why I keep coming back
by Aragorn (Curate) on Apr 13, 2004 at 20:31 UTC
    ...one complaint I do have about PerlMonks is often people take this forum waaaaaaaaay too seriously, and that can make one feel he has to reread his post 5 times over so he won't make a mistake, or wonder if Monk12345 will take him to task for thinking differently. I see a lot of people feeling like they have to strike through their posts and apologize a lot.
    Maybe that has something to do with wanting to be technically accurate. I can only speak for myself, but when I make a mistake, which someone else points out to me, I'd like to correct my post so that it's accurate.

    I take this forum seriously because I've learned a lot from it and think it's a valuable Perl resource. Most of the stuff is pretty high-quality, and the PM community regulates itself very nicely. The desire to produce something high-quality, which a lot of the people here have, deserves to be treated seriously. Maybe some people take it to extremes, but for me, that's not a reason to leave and it adds to the quality of the information offered here.

    Ok, maybe I took you comment a bit too seriously ;-)

    Arjen

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      I think I was commenting on the feeling that expressing of opinion is sometimes met with a minor flamewar...I definitely like factual inaccuracies to be pointed out, but I usually don't like to see it when people say a certain opinion is flat-out-wrong. But that is something we can all work on. As another exmaple, if I make a silly example about veeblefritzers, I'm likely to be chastized (sp?) for not writing a solution that could be easily extended into a solution of umplefroozen, (some people feel the need to flex their argumentative or nit-picky software design muscles too much) so I often feel I have to end every post with 30 disclaimers explaining what I am or am not doing. But now I'm talking myself too seriously :)
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        yeah, maybe sometimes people take the posts too seriously. but mostly it's about TIMTOWTDI. and that's why i am coming back: PM is TIMTOWTDI, Perl is TIMTOWTDI, life is TIMTOWTDI. a lot of the fellow monks in here seem to have the same attitude, which is nice. there's enough ignorance out there allready.

        and, in the end i have to admit: i think about posting a node _way_ too often.
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