Your article seems to rest on several fallacies:

• One can linearly classify modules on a "good" to "bad" scale.
• There's an agreement on what "good" modules and "bad" modules are.
• CPAN has something to do with quality or quality control.
• Quality has something to do with popularity.

I've said it before; CPAN is just an archive. A storage device. An equal opportunity storage device, which doesn't discriminate between "good" or "bad". About the only restriction is that you upload stuff that's freely distributable, and that you play nice.

If you want to rate CPAN modules in some way: create a website, and start writing reports. Spice it up with votes, karma, experience, bronze/silver/gold stars, or whatever. Perhaps someone else is doing some effort already - join them.

Don't come up with things you'd like the CPAN people to implement - do some work yourself.

Abigail

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