Programmatically going through all perlmonks.org threads and classifying them, and storing them in a table is one thing, but outside the site itself will be of marginal use versus effort.

Consider these issues:

• Treads' popularity changes. Will you regenerate your table every day? week? month?
• Will you be the only one using the table? If you publish it on-line with links to threads, your page in effect becomes part of perlmonks.org.
• Is it a good idea to put more load on an already very loaded server? We're nearing 300K nodes.

Maybe a proposal about an extra thread indexing scheme could be made to site maintainters. If the proposal finds enough support, the change might be implemented.

Myself, I am at least curious about what the top-rated threads are.

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