I have my reasons for posting anonymously.

--Jim

P.S. I wonder if you are even brave enough to /msg me and tell me who you really are? Update: on second thought please don't, I'd rather believe you're lying about Saint status and would rather skip the potential disillusionment.

Please. If I logged in right now I'd still have 40 votes left today the same as nearly every other day for some time now. Of course, there is no way to actually prove that to you.

Now, back to a real discussion. Many of the people here have accounts on use.perl so saying you only care what people here think is a wrongheaded. Also, no the duplication would not be exactly the same, which is part of my point. You seem happy to only see the portion of discussion that occurs here. I am more interested in seeing the entire discussion. When you post a link to something on use.perl and start a discussion here then you've split the discussion. This doesn't just mean that people like myself now have to track the discussion on both sites, it is practically guaranteed that some of the people who comment here won't have even read the original item on use.perl, or followed the entire discussion over there before posting their own ill-informed comments here. And just as certainly, people there won't be following the discussion here.

I'm sure you understand the problems with reinventing the wheel. Can't you apply the same logic here? Once the discussion is fractured people wind up raising points or questions that have already been addressed in the other forum, and others waste time addressing those same points. You say you have limited time. I ask why you would want to encourage a practice that will inevitably wind up wasting your precious time, even if you are never aware of the fact because you don't follow the discussion anywhere but here.