No, I don't expect yuo would make any money with this but if you write something like "Can some body write an elaborate summary of what has been happening in the Perl world" then it sounds less like a specific question and much more like "here's my assignment for this week - could someone please write it for me?".

This may not have been your intention but it certainly sounded like it. It's another story if you would have asked for people's opinions about recent directions of Perl.