There have been a few XP-related posts in this section recently so I thought I'd post the one that's been percolating in my brain for a while.

My habits include an occasional visit to the Best Nodes and Worst Nodes pages. Often I find myself upvoting many of the replies, but not necessarily voting on the root node. Yet the root node is the cause of these votes.

So would it make sense to take some of the XP generated by voting on a child node and have that propagate back to the owner of the root node?

Just a thought -- I'm not advocating this approach -- I just wanted to write this down rather than have it rattle around my brain for the next few months.

--t. alex
Life is short: get busy!

In reply to XP Propagation to root node by talexb

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.