Re^5: An OT section (again).

Thank you for the (mental) effort you've obviously put into this. However...

If the intent is for an off-topic discussion to evaporate after some time, then using nodes for it is a bad idea.

Yes, OT happens. But it should be discouraged. Making it easier or making a special place for it to happen has the opposite effect. Even if we implement your idea, OT threads, and especially OT sub-threads, will still happen, probably just as much as always, which means your benefit #1 isn't achieved, and likewise benefit #4, to some extent.

Given that, I don't see your suggestion as an improvement over the status quo, which is, Put "[OT]" in your title when you stray off topic.

Returning to my suggestion — it would be easy enough to add a "Recently updated homewikis" query to the existing "Recently updated homenodes" and "Recently updated scratchpads".

(Actually... I don't see a "Recently updated scratchpads" query. I thought there was one. Was I hallucinating?)

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Re^6: An OT section (again). by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 01, 2007 at 20:12 UTC
Yes, OT happens. But it should be discouraged. Making it easier or making a special place for it to happen has the opposite effect. If I got any reaction at all, that's the one I expected. A rhetorical question you might like to ask yourself, is: Why should it be discouraged. What is so all-fire wrong if the users of this community, wish to solicite and share, their experience, skills and knowledge, beyond those that relate directly to Perl. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^7: An OT section (again). by jdporter (Paladin) on Aug 01, 2007 at 20:28 UTC
Well, OT is, by definition, off topic. If we expand the scope of what's on topic for PerlMonks by letting anything at all be perfectly acceptable, then there is no OT, and we have slashdot. OTOH, letting users solicite and share, their experience, skills and knowledge, beyond those that relate directly to Perl is something that PerlMonks permits, as long as it relates, however indirectly, to Perl. In the end, social pressure is the best — if not in fact the only — way to keep PerlMonks from becoming slashdot. It has worked so far, more or less. A word spoken in Mind will reach its own level, in the objective world, by its own weight	[reply]


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