As for your vague pet concept in particular, what makes a WTF writeup versus something you could discuss in Obfuscation? As long as you say something along the lines of "my cow-orker wrote this; let's all giggle at its stench of incoherency," it would be perfectly suitable.

And on the (customary) third hand, if implemented, I would suggest every node granted the honor of wtf membership should display with a very ^H^H^H^H^H VERY prominent identification, lest it be mistaken for "good" code or algorithm... and that its progeny be similarly rendered with a note (lest it be unclear, in some cases) that the node is response to perceived example of wtf

Anyway? Any comments?

It seems every day there is another suggestion for another section. We have plenty of sections. We don't need one for joke or just-plain-ridiculous algorithms any more than we need one for regex questions or advocacy.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

I think adding a section would be overkill, but I like the idea of finding bogo-sort class code. There's a kind of perverse enjoyment of seeing really bizarre code. The problem, of course, is that my strange code is innovative, unique, clever; their strange code is just bizarre and dumb. Seems we might wind up with some ruffled feathers and flaming, if we had a section like that.

The problem, of course, is that my strange code is innovative, unique, clever; their strange code is just bizarre and dumb.

Indeed the code that I submitted for this snippet is conceptually the same I had posted to news:comp.lang.perl.misc earlier in this article (available from Google Groups here), but the latter had "somewhat" less orthodox flow control structures; and indeed IIRC someone misunderstood it. Needless to say I thought this choice was very cool, back then...

May I recommend, instead, http://thedailywtf.com.

Because this is a PerlMonks FAQ, there is now a Site FAQlet to address it: I think there should be a new Section on PerlMonks for Jobs/Modules/Quizzes/Perl6/Newbies/OffTopic/etc..