Easy - monks wasting Votes to get some late-night XPs, and where is the easiest place to waste them ? Well, front-page of course, the first page a monk reaches on PerlMonks.

Whoa, slow down there. I haven't seen the front page in ages and I'm sure many of the frequent regulars haven't either. Most of the "vets" around here browse from Newest Nodes or a client for its ticker.

Why should that SoPW question you point to not have been upvoted? Someone new to Perl is being attentive to detail - I would be delighted to hear such a question from someone I just started onto learning the language.

Much like you about yours, I didn't think very of a a certain node of mine either. When I put forth that concern however (at the time it was my 2nd highest ++'ed node), people told me they actually found it very well worth of a ++. What was obvious and trivial to me, wasn't necessarily to others.

What all this means is, just because you don't see a reason to upvote it doesn't mean noone else does. Everyone votes for different reasons.

For some more accurate conclusions about the frontpage and a more up to date guideline on what the frontpage is (rather than should be) about, see tye's notes on the topic as well as the entire thread it's part of.

(And to be honest, I don't think a rep of 20 is anything to write home or get excited about.. 30++ upwards tends to indicate a more than average but not spectacular post, in my experience, and I wouldn't call less than 40 rep "high".)

Makeshifts last the longest.