Re^7: Persuading turkeys to vote for christmas

When I take the bother to vote on someone's post; I'd like to know they're going to benefit from that

It seems to me you're making the rookie mistake of thinking that an upvote (or downvote) on a post is also a vote on the user who posted it. They are not so tied. This is exactly why we emphatically assign different terms to the two quantities -- reputation and XP, respectively. I'll quote the relevant FAQ here:

What is reputation?

Each writeup (user-posted node) has a numeric reputation, which is a (very unreliable) indicator of the PerlMonks community's collective estimation of the writeup. A writeup's reputation is simply the sum of the up-votes and down-votes which that node has received. So, for example, if 5 monks voted ++ on a node and 3 other monks voted -- on it, then that node's reputation would be 2.

Please remember that only nodes have a quantitative reputation; users do not. Each registered monk has experience points, a distinct quantity which is determined, only in part, from the up-votes and down-votes which his/her writeups have received. Read Voting/Experience System for the gory details.

(Of course, everyone has real reputation and real experience, but PerlMonks makes no attempt to quantify these. :-)

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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