Off-topic discussions (WAS: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...)

[Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 14:09:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I tried to send the message below via email. Couldn't reach all 
> participants so I'll post it here:
>
> ====
>
> Hi there, thanks for your participation in the D forums. As 
> this thread has stepped outside the charter of the forum, could 
> you kindly please take it either to private email or to a place 
> where such discussions are carried. (We do allow the occasional 
> "near" off-topic posts related to general computing technology 
> under the "OT" label.) We've sent a similar message to the 
> other participants. Thanks! -- Andrei

Then, with all due respect, please remove these posts...

IMHO, they are so incredibly off-topic that I don't see why they 
should remain here to pollute the pages of a D language forum.