Re: Sudden Impressions on the Experience System

xp means little, or nothing. i have pretty high xp, but i still make mistakes. i can point you to at least two dozen of my posts with inaccurate information (perhaps one day i'll clean them up.) i've seen some nodes considered by their authors because they posted inaccurate information, and didn't want down-votes. i think that's bad form. if you make a mistake, get an honest assessment, including any down-votes that come along with it. some monks, (merlyn for one) sometimes come across as harsh, and their nodes are downvoted. i don't see them considering a node to prevent the loss of xp. they realize it's not about xp.

i don't think the experience system would benefit from (this) change. perhaps a better solution is simply to put a small disclaimer under the monestary gates, it's not about the xp, or forget the xp, remember the experience. or better still: we can simply make those phrases part of our meditations on becoming better monks.

here are some posts to help you meditate:

On Monkness (mine, anyway)
Stubborn as a Saint
Beginnings of the Voting Experience System
The true PerlMonks Experience

there are many more like this. seek and ye shall find.

~Particle *accelerates*

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Re: Re: Sudden Impressions on the Experience System by Dog and Pony (Priest) on May 01, 2002 at 19:41 UTC
i've seen some nodes considered by their authors because they posted inaccurate information, and didn't want down-votes. I've posted some real wrong stuff too, I guess most have. When this is pointed out to me, I usually add something like this to the beginning of the node: Update: Doh. I was wrong/didn't test the code/whatever it was. I'm gonna leave this here to serve as a warning to myself and others to not do the same again. :) That way I both can stand for my mistakes, while at the same time not risk anyone actually following my poor advice. And I actually think that if someone is so concerned about it, people will not vote you down much for such a node (when updated) either. I think it is a good way to go. You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Sudden Impressions on the Experience System
by Dog and Pony (Priest) on May 01, 2002 at 19:41 UTC

i've seen some nodes considered by their authors because they posted inaccurate information, and didn't want down-votes.

Update: Doh. I was wrong/didn't test the code/whatever it was. I'm gonna leave this here to serve as a warning to myself and others to not do the same again. :)

That way I both can stand for my mistakes, while at the same time not risk anyone actually following my poor advice. And I actually think that if someone is so concerned about it, people will not vote you down much for such a node (when updated) either.

I think it is a good way to go.

You have moved into a dark place.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

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