Dear Monks,

Being new in this community I recently noticed that you can gain XP just by dropping by the site more than once a day?

Reading through the helpsection I found out that you have a 25% chance of gaining 2 XP a day.

Now I really do visit the Monastery a couple of times a day, but it got me thinking that even somebody who doesn't, could simply pretend he/she drops by, by writing a simple cronjob script like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url =
'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?op=login&node_id=109&user=teabag&pa
+sswd=mypasswd';

print "Checking XP Nodelet\n\n";

my $page =
  LWP::UserAgent->new->request( HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url ) )->c
+ontent;

$page =~ s/\s+/ /gi;
$page =~ s/\n//gi;

my @monkinfo = $page =~ m/(XP\ Nodelet.*?<\/tbody>)/g;

foreach my $line (@monkinfo) {
    $line =~ s/<\/th>/\n->/gi;
    $line =~ s/<.*?>//gi;
    $page =~ s/\s+/ /gi;

    print "$line\n";
}

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So my question is: Is just checking the visits a fair way to check if a person contributes and thus earnes those XP points?

Teabag
chmod 666 *.*
'cause everyone should have the right to read and write!

In reply to PM's XP system, fair or not? by teabag

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