As many of you know, I'm a long time student of Perl Monks history:

• The First Ten Perl Monks
• Experience Point References and Pranks

with a special interest in Saints in our Book. I browse it often ... sometimes noticing interesting quirks:

• Re: Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points - criminal hooligan frittered away 13,000 XP from brian_d_foy's account before being detected and halted (2010)
• planetscape and me: 1282 nodes apiece - planetscape and me tied (29891 XP, 1289 Writeups apiece) on Saints in our Book on Jul 8 2015
• Re: Twenty laborious years -- and I'm glad to be here - epic duel between talexb and jdporter, with talexb reaching Chancellor first (by just 3 XP) on Dec 19 2021
• Chancellor of the Exchequer - talexb and jdporter are joined by afoken in this race to the top 50 Perl Monks of all time (2023)

As indicated here, Perl Monk BBQ arrived with us on Dec 24 1999, making him the third ever non-insider Perl monk and, hailing from Brazil, the second ever international monk! After making the first ever post in the Perl Monks Obfu section our intrepid pioneer hero stayed on for a further ten years!

Accordingly, I would love to see the legendary BBQ appear today whenever I browse Saints in our Book.

Sadly, his current XP of 2905 is just 95 shy of the 3000 required to be listed at Saints in our Book. I feel this is unfair because XP wasn't a part of this site from the start -- it was introduced by vroom on Mar 23 2000, three months after BBQ joined.

Though I could make a special plea to the PM gods to award BBQ the 95 XP required to reach sainthood, I'd find it much more satisfying if we could all honour BBQ by upvoting enough of his praiseworthy historic nodes to allow him to finally reach his richly deserved sainthood.

Let's make BBQ a saint!

References

• The First Ten Perl Monks
• Re: Best of the Best Users in Perlmonks site by chromatic ("XP wasn't a part of the site from the start")
• Beginnings of the Voting Experience System by vroom (Mar 23 2000)

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