# Bringing (a bit) more guidance for #offtopic?

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**Created:** [August 22, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bringing-a-bit-more-guidance-for-offtopic/118470 "2024-08-22T01:53:06Z")\
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I’d agree that I’d rather #Offtopic be removed rather than overly-restricted. It seems to me that if the requirement is “be directly related to Julia” that it should go into #General Usage or #Specific Domains. I don’t consider a post like [JIT Compiler for CPython](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jit-compiler-for-cpython/108055) to be inappropriate in the #Offtopic category, even though it’s not directly related to Julia – it’s directly related to Python, indirectly related to Julia. But I do like seeing the Julia community’s thoughts and _discourse_ on topics like that.

But I do agree that I’m not a fan of posts consisting only of a link – that’s not _discourse_. So for me, as long as what’s posted is:

1. Legal / meets Code of Conduct requirements
2. At least tangentially related to Julia (no posts about who we think the starting QB at My University State is going to be)
3. Has a reasonable amount of effort exerted to try to start a _discourse_ on the topic

Then don’t filter the post – the fact it’s in the #Offtopic category in the first place is enough of a signal to my own internal filter for whether I want to spend time in it.

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