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What's with all these political posts? (Score:2)
Hi nicholas!
I've been subscribed the use.perl.org feed for a while now to follow up on all the interesting perl news. But one thing I don't like are political posts, especially those that you've posted recently, several in a row.
Now I respect you as a programmer and a large contributor to the Perl core and other Perl projects, but I still don't want to read such disturbing blog posts.
I suggest that you (and everybody else) refrain from posting political posts here. If you still wish to write them, th
disturbing? (Score:1)
Why do you find these posts disturbing?
It's a programmer thinking about real life. Yes, real life *is* disturbing, but you'd better be familiar with it now.
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First of all, as a general rule, I don't find real life disturbing. Sometimes it is, but as a general rule, real life has been pretty good to me so far.
The reason I find them disturbing, is because I'm subscribed to the use.perl.org master-feed to read what people write about Perl. I also tolerate some tangential discussion that people post from time to time. However, I find such political posts (and such that are not of very good quality) disturbing because politics is, well, annoying and disturbing. As
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I've written about Perl on here‽ Never!
Oh gosh. That claim. It was all within the rules.
Er, I mean, I'll back immediately.
Vote for me!*
* The Spitting Image excerpt, I believe is