What is considered “on-topic”?
Almost everything, but not all. Things which are frowned upon are: • Overly graphical depictions of pornography or violence. • Annoying trolling, preaching or sex advice. • Flooding the channel with large pastes. • Too much bot-playing. • Obscure or annoying political discussion. This is what #politics or #perlcafe are for. Note that some interesting polito-philosophical discussion may be tolerated. Another negative trend was that sometimes two or three people kept discussing their own pet projects or the Pike language or whatever, and it was of little interest to the rest of the channel, and they were instructed to discuss it elsewhere. Otherwise we tolerate and like discussions about: • Perl. (Naturally). • Computing in general. (UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, history of computing, etc.) • Other programming languages – C and C++; Perl alternatives like PHP, Python or Ruby; Lisp and Scheme; Haskell, O’Caml, etc.; Assembler; and more exotic languages. • We still try to focus on Perl, though. •
The group is to be considered informal, however please bear in mind that *everyone* on the mailing list will read your Emails. So try to make sure that your post will be of interest to everyone on the group. Subjects can range from therianthropy to just animals in general, but please refrain from unrelated topics such as computing, which not everyone has an interest in. WEREmail is not moderated at this time, though it can be if the need arises. – Utlah.
