I saw three posts that were 'blessed' by people in the Notices section of the side panel. Is this new? What does it mean?

talexb, though I didn't notice the Notices section, I was astonished to see three gold stars magically appear in Bod's probing XS Modules - why and when? question ... and delighted to share this rare honour with the Bod and the LanX ... though I confess I didn't give it further thought until your question appeared today.

Poking around in the catacombs, I see most of the eleven gold stars in Illuminations (category: sorting) were awarded to significant historical figures in the monastery, including two gold stars awarded to PM founder vroom himself:

• How do I do a complex sort on an array? by vroom (Jan 08, 2000) - answers from vroom, merlyn
• How do I sort a list of numbers? by vroom (Jan 21, 2000) - answered by vroom
• How do I sort a multidimensional arrays? by anonymonk (May 28, 2000) - answers from reptile, merlyn, chromatic
• How do I write my own sorting routine? by Russ (Jul 05, 2000) - answered by Russ
• How do I sort on more than one column? by Russ (Jul 23, 2000) - answered by Russ
• How do I sort a list chronologically from most recent to last? by anonymonk (Oct 28, 2000) - answer from chromatic

• How do I do a natural sort on an array? by anonymonk (Mar 30, 2001) - answers from indigo, tye, Dominus, salva
• How do I sort something by date? by damian1301 (May 31, 2001)
• How do I sort a Hash of Hashes? by greywolf (Jan 10, 2004)
• How do I use a sort routine from a different package/module? by bobf (Jun 09, 2005)
• How do I print the values of a hash, sorted by the hash keys? by kwaping (Jul 21, 2006)

When the smoke has cleared around these gold stars, I'll update my Sorting References and Perl Monks history notes.

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