Re: Yet Another XP Debate.

if xp doesn't matter, then why have it?

In general, the more XP someone has, the more they've contributed to the site (by adding features, answering questions, posting interesting meditations, considering nodes, etc). So, XP looks like recognition for frequent and valued contributors.

And more to the point, why base who controls this site on it?

Sorta the other way around, IMHO. The people who make frequent, valued contributions (and get noticed) end up as gods or pmdevelopers or editors, and -- oh my! -- they also have high XP. (Or did you mean consideration in general?)

-- The hell with paco, vote for Erudil! /msg me if you downvote this node, please. :wq

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Re: Yet Another XP Debate. by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 14, 2002 at 12:41 UTC
In general, the more XP someone has, the more they've contributed to the site (by adding features, answering questions, posting interesting meditations, considering nodes, etc). So, XP looks like recognition for frequent and valued contributors. Well, that's not the impression I get. If I look at how much XP a post gets, the fastest way of getting XP is by asking popular questions. Especially questions which aren't really Perl related, but more web related. And of course posts with short wrong answers are often valued more than longer, correct answers - because they appear to be more 'unfriendly'. If you would put any worth to XP measurement, it's only a popularity measurement. It doesn't appear to have to do anything with "useful contributions" (if you would consider "correct answers" to be useful). And that's all I do with XP. See how popular certain posts are. Abigail	[reply]
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