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The solution is simple and doesn't require creating an additional account. If you don't want your XP muddied, post to those areas as Anonymous.

You're entitled to your views on XP. I like think of XP as a very rough estimate of an individuals contributions to the PM community as a whole, not just a part of it.

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein

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Re: Re: Re: google style best nodes list
by mandog (Curate) on Oct 19, 2001 at 17:09 UTC
    A problem for me with posting anonymously is that I think that it is important to accept responsibility for my words.


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      Taking the responsibility is not the problem. You just sign in your usual way and add a remark that you posted this anonymously on purpose. If you like you can add a reasoning for doing so.

      -- Hofmator

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Re: google style best nodes list
by mandog (Curate) on Oct 20, 2001 at 03:45 UTC
    A problem with posting anonymously and saying it is me is that I could also post anonymously and say it was you...


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      Er, no.

      1. Post anonymously, signing it as yourself.
      2. Then log in as yourself, and reply to the anonymous post saying "Yes, I did that."
      This way, there is verification that you are actually taking responsibility for your post.

      That said, I don't suggest it. PM XP and PM levels are definitely a poor indicator of perl experience 1. They are more often indicators of one's contributions and involvement in the community. I definitely advise just posting and taking your lumps (anvils or sugar) as they come, and track your coding ability against real live code instead.

      1 Take me for an example. Not a good coder, but (before i went dormant for a while) a contributor to the community, asker of decent questions (even if I am stubborn).
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        Thanks for everyone's thoughts....

        I do accept that XP is a very, very crude gauge. It is probably futile to attempt to refine it but I'm going to try anyway.

        Since nobody tells me that a second account will consume lots of server resources or confuse people, I've created social_mandog.

        Posting Anonymously just seems too cumbersome and prone to error. (What if somebody posts anonymously, claims to be me and I don't notice?)

        Also a second account allows me to (crudely) track my social contributions.

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      On second thought, I doubt if anyone would get away with that for too long.


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        For what ever it means, this anonymous monk is is not me...


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