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Re: Front-paging and XPby Limbic~Region (Chancellor) |
on Mar 16, 2003 at 15:57 UTC ( [id://243478]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
spurperl,
While I don't disagree with the fact that a front paged node tends to attract more votes (either positive or negative), there are some reasons you haven't mentioned.
And in reference to this node that you do not feel is deserving of the votes - I suggest reading this reply by hv. The monk found what appears to be a bug in certain versions of Perl. I was able to reproduce it on my Active State Perl, but I got the required error on my Unix machine. You are to expect a wide range of nodes frontpaged. This is because in the Perl community, we have users of all levels. It could be that a newbie with only 5 votes is casting them on a trivial front page node for a couple of reasons - s/he can understand them and they are right in front of their face (they don't have to go looking for them). As far as hurting the credibility of our XP system - I didn't it was in the first place. It seems to me that everyone with high XP trivializes it. The voting system (reputation not XP) is what is used to give a basic idea as to what is good and what is bad. A node that has a lot of negative reputation will be considered for deletion - and hence removed from the site - making it better. A node with high reputation such as Erudil's 1st Monasterians may be integrated into the Monastery itself. In summation - I agree that nodes on the front page recieve more votes (positive and negative) than they would if they were not front paged, but I don't see why that is a big deal. Cheers - L~R
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