How is the site's looks any more important to the quality of posts than anyone's personal XP rating? Aren't you being a hypocrite there?

Remember the entire thing is run by volunteer effort. As we say around here, if you don't like it, Feel Free: We Stylin'!. I have, as have many others who posted their stylesheets for public consumption in PerlMonks CSS Examples.

That would probably work better than resurfacing after a year, saying "you people still suck.. your site sucks too.. cyas".

See you next year - hopefully with better quality of posts..

Makeshifts last the longest.