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What I find informative is how people have voted on a particular node, to find out the "Reputation" of that node. This, together with the XP of the author of the node, is a good indication to me of whether what was said in the node, makes sense or not.

I disagree.

I have a node with a reputation of 14. What useful information can you deduce from that number?

Update: Exactly. All of the other information is available already. I'm not sure the reputation of any single node adds significant data.

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Re: Re: Re: Googlish approach to voting/XP?
by liz (Monsignor) on Aug 06, 2003 at 23:45 UTC
    ...I have a node with a reputation of 14. What useful information can you deduce from that number?

    By itself? Nothing.

    Together with your XP? Something.

    Together with knowing you're doing stuff on quite a number of Perl projects outside of PerlMonks? Still a bit more.

    Without reading the node in question? Nothing.

    It's all about content and making (!) an opinion about it.

    Liz

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      I believe the word you're lookibng for is context ;-) Something every good perlmonk should be familiar with. --
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