in reply to Re: Re: XPs and real experience
in thread XPs and real experience

I thought that XPs should be used to vote for quality of postings.

Yes, that's what I said. You vote ++ on something if you think it's a good contribution. I think your confusion comes from your belief that a highly rated comment should demonstrate some amazing perl skill. A simple comment that many people find worthwhile might get a higher rating than an amazing perl trick that wasn't as generally useful or just didn't get seen by as many people.

I get "sad" :)) when I see that I was also downvoted for what I proposed as discussion.

You were probably downvoted because we're all sick of talking about XP and would prefer to talk about Perl.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: XPs and real experience
by rbi (Monk) on Nov 21, 2001 at 20:56 UTC
    I think you're confusing things. we're talking about the same thing now... I'm saying that ++ should be for "interesting" postings, be they on perl skillness or whatever interesting can be, not necessarily capability. I was just criticizing 200 and more points and one single posting rated 5 points. I'm happy for the guy if he is.
    I wrote about just because I don't get the meaning of those points if they are called "Experience" points and given also for frequentation of the site. They would be more appropriately "Frequent surfer" points. This also would give the right credit to guys that are not perl gurus but keep the site alive and unique as it is.
    However, I understand all this got too far. sorry for boring with old discussions. I'm probably not frequently enough here.