G'day mtmcc,

I had a look Worst Nodes. You're not listed there so it looks like you haven't posted anything atrocious.

I then had a look at your home node. XP=550; Posts=127; Average=4.3307 — Current average for all posts by all monks in the last week = 6.2142 (see Voting/Experience System). So, overall your posts have been below average but not disastrously so.

I next looked at your posts ordered by "lowest reputation first".

I'm not interested in going through all of your nodes; let's just look at the first two. The second from the top of the list looked like a complete script but didn't compile due to a syntax error. You wrote "I can't test it on windows" but you could have tested it on any OS: I simply put the code in a temporary file and tested it like this (on Mac OS X):

$ perl -c junk
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at junk line 4.
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Anyway, you got a response pointing out your error. You said thanks, but then went on the blame windows for your mistake: "Reason #121 not to use windows!!" — that's the top of the list! Furthermore, you made no attempt to update the node with the error: it's still there and still wrong.

So, those would be reasons why your two worst nodes were downvoted. I suggest you look at the others and see if you can work out the reasons for yourself. You can also look at nodes with a high reputation (Best Nodes and Selected Best Nodes) and see how they differ from yours.

[I haven't voted on those nodes so I don't know exactly how poorly they were received.]

Here's a few pointers that may improve the reputation of future nodes you write:

• Don't post unless you feel you have something concrete to offer.
• Check any code that you post actually runs and does what you claim (e.g. it performs the specified function, it produces output in the correct format, etc.).
• If you can't run the code, at least attempt to check it has valid syntax.
• If you offer opinions, back them up with links to documentation or other references.
• When you make mistakes (as we all do from time to time), write an appropriate update: read (or reread) How do I change/delete my post?.

[Just so you know, I don't recall downvoting any of your nodes (although I may have done); I do recall, on a number of occasions, choosing not to upvote your nodes because I thought they were poor quality; and, I have corrected dubious information you supplied at least once (I'm not going to go searching for it but it was something to do with Tk).]