You may not want to hear what you consider to be "an HTML question". But a whole lot of Perl programmers do a whole lot of work on HTML and so HTML is going to come up at PerlMonks a lot.

Oh, but I bet quite a lot of Perl programmers do a whole lot of work on filling their stomachs with considerable amounts of beer, am I to expect something like the following to come up?

Subject: Class::DBI caused unrecoverable system damage

I've had the best part of my day ruined struggling with Class::DBI's xxx feature. Eventually, after many hours trying to cope with it, I decided to give up and I thought "Oh well, let's go out with my friends and have a good pint of slalom or two". Quite surprisingly, many beers later, I suddenly found out The Way TDI(TM), or at least I though I had, because as I came back home and tried my hand at it, mysteriously what must certainly be a bug in Class::DBI managed to make me "rm -rf /"-**k my system. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

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.

I partly agree. "Partly" for two reasons:

1. it really drives me crazy to read what are in fact CGI or HTML questions here, especially if they make the implicit assumption that Perl eq CGI - I can't help that. But maybe that's because I'm not particularly involved in these topics, so maybe I'm just being selfish, since I'm much more tolerant of other kinds of OT content;
2. I don't know if I'm a member you respect, but I completely agree that PM would be pretty boring if only strictly Perl-related topics were being discussed here. That is I wouldn't limit the discourse to questions, and I'd enlarge it to a reasonable amount of non-too-off-topic OT content.

Colophon