in reply to Re^3: An OT section (again).
in thread An OT section (again).

it limits the impact of OT threads on PM's 'core business' by removing OT threads from the main sections
But it doesn't.

Golly, I didn't know it had been tried already!

If just one OT post were made to the proposed section rather than to one of the current sections then it would have "limited the impact of OT threads on PM's 'core business'".

The proposed section doesn't do anything about sub-threads that meander off topic. It does remove top level off topic posts from PM's 'core business' sections.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

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Re^5: An OT section (again).
by jdporter (Paladin) on Aug 02, 2007 at 21:36 UTC

    So you think reducing n by 1 (or any other number - even a percentage) puts an upper bound on n? What exactly is this limit you're thinking of?

    Anyway, I don't see the point in arguing semantics. I'd simply rather not have yet another section in which people post a mish-mash of on-topic and off-topic stuff... especially if it's construed as encouraging off-topic posting in PerlMonks. But that's just me. I don't speak for the site policy makers.

    Golly, I didn't know it had been tried already!
    Of course it's already been tried. How else could you have said
    it limits the impact of OT threads on PM's 'core business'...

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