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But Perl Monks vs Stack Overflow comparisons are pointless.

Well the real test will be "will StackOverflow start showing ads for google?" , as zby alludes to.

If they do, then all we are doing by answering questions there, is helping a startup. SlackOverflow may just need to reach that magical hit number where Google ads can be offered. There already are a bunch of "get answers" sites, that are blatantly mercenary...... I hate the ruse they use where they break up a simple answer into multiple pages, so you are forced to look at more ads.

And w-ber's observations about OpenID, at Re^3: Breaking Out of the Perl Echo Chamber: A Call to Action are enough to dissuade me from it.

On second thought, maybe I'll get me a fake OpenID, and will post some answers there, with links to Perlmonks as answers. ha ha :-)

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Re^4: Breaking Out of the Perl Echo Chamber: A Call to Action
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 22, 2008 at 17:22 UTC

    There already are a bunch of “get answers” sites, that are blatantly mercenary…… I hate the ruse they use where they break up a simple answer into multiple pages, so you are forced to look at more ads.

    Err. Yes. Hence Stack Overflow. The fact that these sites suck was the motivation behind it. (I linked the post from my original post; did you read it?) I’m not sure who you are trying to convince of what.

    Maybe I’ll get me a fake OpenID, and will post some answers there, with links to Perlmonks as answers. ha ha :-)

    If your intent is to annoy Stack Overflow users rather than help them, please do the Perl community a favour and stay away.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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        I said that feeling the need to turn this into a Perl Monks vs Stack Overflow comparison is misguided, and that bragging about Perl Monks on Stack Overflow would help exactly no one. Neither of these points suggests that you are feeble-minded.

        (However, reading that into what I said does not help your case on said account.)

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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