in reply to Showing node writer's XP level

Interesting idea. It's somehting I've kind of thought about, or rather feared. When I started lo the many weeks ago, I was worried that people wouldn't listen to what I had to say. What reason did they have? I had no "experience". But I knew that I knew my stuff, or at least a good portion of what I think I know ;-). And so I worried, and this wouldn't help to assuage (damn that's spelled funny) that.

On the other hand, it might help those who like to try and dole out votes to the lower level breathren when earned/ appropriate; say over those that are already saints.

Finally, I think the community does a pretty good job of judging the value of posts as it is with regular voting.

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Re: Re: Showing node writer's XP level
by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Jan 11, 2002 at 14:55 UTC
    I have the opposite fear, since, though through diligence and asking a lot of dim questions with unimpeachable grammar I stand now on the vertiginous brink of sainthood, I shouldn't like anyone to mistake me for an authority. I sometimes write stuff that makes sense; occasionally I write what I think is very sensible and then some other monk corrects me, so that I and the person who asked the question both learn something. What this leads me to is the view that it's the *thread* that's interesting, not just the individual post. I find the dialectic as educational as the steps. There *are* some monks whose individual posts I read with special attention, but that's not because of their XP, but because I've learnt over time that they make sense.

    § George Sherston
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