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(dws)Re: The fickleness of Reputationby dws (Chancellor) |
on Apr 06, 2001 at 05:42 UTC ( [id://70373]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Does anybody else have a problem with reputation of nodes translating into experience, and thereby an indication of Perl expertise? Or am I just being anal?
Well, if you put it that way... :) Seriously: There are several reasons -- aside from the content of the node -- why a node's reputation isn't a valid reflection on its value:
The point is, in general, the number of votes that a node gets is not a great reflection of a node's "value". And I don't think anyone is highly motivated to try to make the situation "fair", at least not once they've thought through the implications. But life here is more interesting at the edges. Nodes that gather high scores (Best Nodes)or negative scores (Worst Nodes) are worthy of study, not so much for the value of the node (though many of the highly ranked ones are indeed quite good), but as a read on the "pulse" of the monestary, and for tips on which styles of writing and rhetoric people respond to.
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