in reply to How to whore for XP

I think the XP points will only be a useful guide, if they are handed out sparingly. What will happen if everyone becomes a saint in a year's time? Then it becomes meaningless. Maybe create the "uber-saint"? Or Levels of "sainthood"? This is starting to remind me of the "american public school system" where you pass just for showing up, or college where you pass on the curve as long as you pay tuition. I would prefer it if being a saint really meant something. Like at least 5 years participation in perlmonks, and/or a vote amoung all the current saints.
I vote for nodes that produce working code examples, and for comments that reveal "deep perl clues" which can't be found in the books.

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Re^2: How to whore for XP
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 26, 2002 at 17:47 UTC

    Nearly two years ago it was predicted that normal nodes would routinely be getting 300 votes "in one or two years" (by Ovid, I think? I searched, but unfortunately couldn't find anything), which would make the current rank levels meaningless and make reputations of nodes posted too long apart completely incomporable.

    As you see, this hasn't come to pass.

    There's two factors playing into this:

    1. The number of votes given out per day never changed.
    2. More users mean more posts.

    Think about it.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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