Confession can cleanse the soul and free a guilty heart. It has been almost two years since Return of the Confessional, the latest in a tradition started by chromatic in Confessional. With all the new monks, I think it's time for another. Feel free to post anonymously, if the pain of a public confession would be too great.

Forgive me, fellow monks, for I have sinned. This is my first public confessional and there is much to cleanse.

• I have indiscriminately used all my remaining votes at the end of the day just to gain XP.
• I have tossed off quick replies to questions to be one of the first, and then filled in a better reply later.
• I have tossed off quick replies to questions to be one of the first, without properly checking my facts or testing my code.
• I have edited nodes without saying I did so.
• I have engaged in extended Re:^N arguments that did not add much new information.
• I have withheld useful information from an OP because the node was 'stale' and not worth much XP.
• I have made hit-and-run comments in the CB without taking time to engage in a real conversation.
• I envy tilly and Ovid their excellent writing style.
• I tend to read and favor nodes by monks I know well.
• I have prematurely optimized code.
• I have written useful modules, but have been too lazy to submit them to CPAN.

If there was something you did that was against the good spirit of Perlmonks or the Perl community, post here. We will understand.

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