User since: Oct 27, 2011 at 18:35 UTC (14 years ago) Last here: May 05, 2025 at 16:13 UTC (32 weeks ago) Experience: 10457 Level: Prior (17) Writeups: 1122 Location: Oak Park, Mi User's localtime: Dec 16, 2025 at 08:51 EST Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

Perl Monks history nodes:

Node	Des‎crip‎tion
The early history of Perlmonks	Some early history.
The First Ten Perl Monks	Title says it all.
The True Catacombs of Perlmonks	Explanation of some nodes.
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2014	Why Poll suggestions have different nodes, usually by year.
Zen and the art of ignoring XP	Nice thread on if XP should matter or not.
...there should be a new Section on PerlMonks for...	Some suggested PM sections
...(antivroom or paco)	paco and antivroom
Re: Nodes 1..1000000 were:	A nice report on nodes 1 - 1,000,000

Perl Monks nodes of interest:

Node	Des‎crip‎tion
Levels of Monks	Levels and privileges.
Voting/Experience System	Voting, in detail.
"Your votes" giving inaccurate figures	"Your Votes," some details.
/msg tye I'm ignoring you	chatbox /ignore.
Re: Ignore monks in last hour of cb	ignore chat (including history) from specific user(s)
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2014	Node titles limited to 240 bytes
Re^2: Storing Experience for Posterity	Record monk XP history
Re: Dates of Monk promotion (covered)	Time of Monk level changes
Re^3: poll ideas quest 2014	Why to avoid the Wikipedia shortcut here
Why is the "number of write-ups" wrong?	Explaining the "bug".
Consensus-driven site policy changes	Notes and thoughts on a consensus changing the site.

Some of my own nodes:

Node	Des‎crip‎tion
Displaying Monk Levels	Greasemonkey s‎crip‎t to show Monk Level numbers next to the names.
Checking Saint in our Book for ties	Greasemonkey s‎crip‎t to show Saints in our Book ties, based on Writeups and Experience.
Perl(Hello World)	A poem i'm particularly proud of.
Re^3: PM Leveling Guide.	11 down votes (so far) It's so nice that they care. :)
Re: poll ideas quest 2015 (political centrist)	Poll idea about centrists. "Reputation: 3 (+8 -5)" (was +6 -6) How apropos. :)
Re: planetscape and me: 1282 nodes apiece	Queries on Saints in our Book

XP History:

Level	Milestone	Date	XP Nodelet
13	New level! Made it into Saints in our Book!	(Unknown)	XP Nodelet You gained 2 experience points. I've got a million of them. Your new level imbues you with super-powers! Check out Level 13: Curate for the details! You have 999 points until level 14 - Priest.
13	Passed Nodereaper in Saints in our Book. Did i just cheat death?	10/14/2014	XP Nodelet You gained 1 experience point. For more information, please contact your local XP dealership. You have 257 points until level 14 - Priest.
14	New level!	11/13/2014	XP Nodelet You gained 4 experience points. Your mother would be so proud! Congratulations, you have been promoted to Priest! You have 1398 points until level 15 - Vicar.
14	First XP loss! (iirc)	01/28/2015	XP Nodelet You lost 1 experience point. You have 920 points until level 15 - Vicar.
15	New level!	06/10/2015	XP Nodelet You gained 6 experience points. It's the best we could do on such short notice. Congratulations, you have been promoted to Vicar! You have 1598 points until level 16 - Parson.
15	1337 p01nts f0r n0w. Awesome!	07/01/2015	XP Nodelet You gained 1 experience point. You have 1337 points until level 16 - Parson.
16	New level!	03/17/2016	XP Nodelet You have 24 votes left today. You gained 1 experience point. Congratulations, you have been promoted to Parson! You have 2000 points until level 17 - Prior.
16	Passed Spooty in Saints in our Book, the highest ranked monk with no Writeups.	07/13/2016	XP Nodelet You have 30 votes left today. You gained 1 experience point. You have 1380 points until level 17 - Prior.
16	Lost 6 points! For voting down comments. Probably more tomorrow. :) (Day 2: -9)	07/13/2016	XP Nodelet You lost 6 experience points. You have 481 points until level 17 - Prior.
16	17 is in the air...	06/16/2017	XP Nodelet You have 17 votes left today. You gained 1 experience point. (Ah, mozzarella today.) You have 17 points until level 17 - Prior.
17	New Level!	06/18/2017	XP Nodelet You have 14 votes left today. You gained 3 experience points. Don't let it go to your head. Congratulations, you have been promoted to Prior! You have 2998 points until level 18 - Monsignor.

XP History according to PM:

Level	Date	Days
0	2011-09-27	0
1	(unknown)	(unknown)
2	2011-11-15	50
3	2011-11-27	12
4	2011-12-06	9
5	2011-12-09	3
6	2011-12-30	21
7	2012-02-02	34
8	2012-03-20	47
9	2012-05-25	66
10	2012-08-14	81
11	2013-09-04	386
12	2014-03-26	203
13	2014-06-18	84
14	2014-11-13	148
15	2015-06-10	209
16	2016-03-17	281
17	2017-06-18	457