How about you just say insert name here++? :-)

Actually, I don't think that should be encouraged. The CB is slow enough without 15 people chiming in to say so-and-so++ whenever so-and-so answers some random question correctly. Besides, this exact phenomenon was one of the reasons I avoided efnet/#perl most of the time. Lots of cliquish atta-boying for no good purpose. I think the ability to anonymously reward is an important component to avoiding that sort of thing.

As both you and newrisedesigns have pointed out, XP really means nothing. Let's extend that to say that node reputation means nothing. Well, the fact that they mean nothing doesn't hold up as an argument against this idea because if they truly mean nothing, then adding another way to get them certainly wouldn't hurt anything, right?

I think XP and node reputation do mean something. What they mean is neither clear nor universal across all monks or writeups. In any particular case, XP or node rep might be meaningless. In general, though, nodes with higher rep are more correct or more interesting or better represent community opinion. In general, monks with higher XP have contributed more in quantity or quality to the Monastery.

At an absolute minimum, the voting, experience, and reputation system means something because it is an integral part of this site that, at least partially, defines how this community interacts with itself. Frankly, I think it was a pretty cool idea and its existence really sets this site apart from many others.

So, if we assume they do mean something, does my idea dilute that meaning in any way? Does it discount votes or experience? I don't think it would. I hope that it would encourage more positive interaction between monks by way of the CB and thereby be an improvement to the Monastery.

Between my replies to you and newrisedesigns, I think I've defended the idea as much as I can. I guess I'll just wait to see how it fares in the court of Monk's opinion...

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";