I've also heard several members that I respect say that PerlMonks would get pretty boring if only the questions that are really about Perl got asked here.

Completely agree. Probably only half the questions I find interesting are directly about Perl. I would be *very* sad if the immense wisdom/experience/expertise that exists in the user base here were to shut down questions because they were essentially not Perl questions but really--take your pick--CGI specification, SQL, algorithm, color theory, design, tech work, approaches to inheritance, other languages, etc.

If anything I'd love to see a slightly more tolerant OT monastery because it would represent great riches of knowledge unleashed within the best-in-class tech community site.

And to bust friedo's chops just a little, with HTML errors in the OP, one might forgive an HTML question now and then. :)