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I don't know if I'm the only one noticing but it's pretty difficult to find nodes written after 2006!
As I'm looking at it now the last node N° 50 is "DNA is Life" with 99 upvotes, which pretty much explains the phenomenon.
It's the deflation (the opposite of inflation) of votes in the last years. IAW votes were "cheaper" back then.
The best node of 2013 apparently was "perlmonksflair.com : get your perlmonks flair!" with 87 votes.

We'll all muse about flairs when we grow old, and get to younger nodes once we upvoted all the brilliant nodes of those giants on whose shoulders we stood a full working lifetime. Pretty soon it will be difficult to find Best Nodes Of All Times written after 2021!

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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Re^2: Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes"
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 07, 2014 at 22:54 UTC

    I can't recall even a single node written after 2021 that was worth upvoting at all.

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      2021 was actually a banner year for all the 8 perls. You don't remember because you developed a pretty serious case of Alzheimer's in 2019.

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      Can I have a ride in your time machine?

      And is Perl6 done?

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        It will be by next Christmas.
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Re^2: Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes"
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:44 UTC
    > all the brilliant nodes of those giants

    true, nothing better than several Perl OO discussions from 2002... :-}

    (pity Your Mother changed her user image again, I'd love to link to it now ...)

    Cheers Rolf

    ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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      I put it back for now since I don’t have a canonical external source for it that wouldn’t spoil my surprise.

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