I thought your idea was great. But clockperl.pm being "all rights reserved" is inconsistent with having a sourceforge site. Please fix this problem. Otherwise keep going!

What most monks abjectly, completely, disastrously, unbelievably, impossibly, crazily seem to fail to grasp is the idea that having XP in such a prominent role makes it perhaps the most easily recognized element representing Perlmonks. AND, programmers are not the most stable of individuals especially when they come to a site like this to chill out after getting nauseated by information ovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvverload (that was just my keyboard at this crazy too hot cafe!) / crazy customer / crazy suits / crazy girl problems and they get a neat idea post it, and then flamed out.

(You'd think more people than an enlightened few would figure this out: XP has of course NO OBJECTIVE REALITY but we are talking about psychological perceptions, not reality here.) So let's add to vroom's saying, "..but 8,000 XP WILL buy you a front row seat in the Chatterbox."

So yeah, XP doesn't matter. But I also dislike seeing XP go down (even though I sometimes spend days on end at PM and sometimes like just now, months away..) and have to fight the urge to delete posts when it seems they get minuses for no good reason.

I figure I learned some pattern recognition skills about PM and have no need to get a psychological twinge at seeing minuses. XP works like a sledgehammer on those who believe it, and you can quote me on that (just please don't vote me down). Smile!