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Some people got annoyed with me because I nominated this completely off-topic node for reaping. It received enough votes for reaping within just a few minutes, but now appears to be unreaped.

Personally, I am rather tired of what seems to be an increasing amount of non-Perl related posts in SoPW. I come here for Perl discussion because this is the best Perl community I know of. I don't want to waste time wading through questions that are wholly unrelated to the topic. (Especially ones with deceptive titles. The above node claims to be about HTML::Template but is clearly an HTML question that has nothing to do with templates.)

So just how much should we put up with? If HTML questions are OK, should we start answering questions about PHP, Excel and The GIMP? Does it make it OK if the Excel sheet is Perl-generated and a GIMP image comes from a Perl plugin, even if the questions themselves aren't about Perl?

I'm not trying to start a big controversey here. I just want to keep this site on-topic. It's been my experience that when enthusiast sites start to have shoddy moderation and a bunch of off-topic crap flows in, the most knowledgeable people get fed up and leave. We already have a voting system that acts as a good check on moderator abuse, IMHO. I think the unanimous initial decision for reaping is proof that my position is not unpopular.

I'm much more tolerant of OT discussion in the other fora, but I propose a stricter standard for things in SoPW: Posts in Seekers of Perl Wisdom should contain questions about Perl.

What say you?

In reply to Rule change re: reaping OT nodes by friedo

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