I don't know if I'm the only one noticing but it's pretty difficult to find nodes written after 2006!
As I'm looking at it now the last node N° 50 is "DNA is Life" with 99 upvotes, which pretty much explains the phenomenon.
It's the deflation (the opposite of inflation) of votes in the last years. IAW votes were "cheaper" back then.
The best node of 2013 apparently was "perlmonksflair.com : get your perlmonks flair!" with 87 votes.

We'll all muse about flairs when we grow old, and get to younger nodes once we upvoted all the brilliant nodes of those giants on whose shoulders we stood a full working lifetime. Pretty soon it will be difficult to find Best Nodes Of All Times written after 2021!

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re: Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes" by shmem
in thread Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes" by LanX

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