# A most harrowing collection of Julia WATs

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** wat\
**Created:** [March 2, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-most-harrowing-collection-of-julia-wats/77323 "2022-03-02T18:15:32Z")\
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> [@jonniedie](#):
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> It’s fun – maybe not to everyone, but to some people. And it’s only wasting the time of the people who choose to come here and have their time wasted. It might not be “productive”, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any value in it.

The problem is, I think, that such threads siphon off the usefulness from the rest of the forum. The fact that someone might say something useful or significant in such a difficult-to-navigate thread is a problem because the information is then made relatively inaccessible.

> [@jonniedie](#):
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> spark full-fledged discussions that are unrelated to the main topic? Yes. Should those discussions be migrated to their own topic? Yeah, probably.

That takes effort. Effort that could presumably instead have been spent making awesome contributions to the Julia ecosystem, etc.

> [@jonniedie](#):
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> But that’s just natural conversation.

Isn’t that more suited to Slack or Zulip?

[https://julialang.zulipchat.com](https://julialang.zulipchat.com)

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