The decision to not make node reputations generally visible is intentional. But it seems to be one of the more commonly questioned design decisions. I am agnostic on changing that.

However the ability to sort nodes by reputation does exist. For instance here are my nodes, sorted by reputation. You may not know the reps, but it is guaranteed that RE (tilly) 2 (benford): Spooky math problem has a lower reputation than The nature of work. (In fact as of the time of this writing, the reps are -1 and 84 respectively.)

However this is less useful than you might think. The reputation of a node reflects many things other than quality. When it was posted to a thread. How accessible it was to the majority of voters. Whether or not people agreed or disagreed. How long ago it was posted. (As the population of PM grows there is overall rating inflation.) So take ratings with more than a couple of grains of salt.

As for the scribing area, that has also come up. I really don't like it. The time I spend here is volunteer time. I already knew Perl before I came here, I don't want to jump artificial hoops to prove that I know it. Were that kind of system in place, I would never have bothered making it beyond scribe.

If you want challenges, here are some.

  1. Write a useful class that uses tie.
  2. Perl's hashing algorithm is O(n*n) worst case. Demonstrate that by finding a data-set that achieves this worst case. (If you do it right you don't even need to know what Perl's hashing algorithm actually is!)
  3. Find a bug in a CPAN module or in perl. Produce a patch.
For more just look in SoPW. :-)

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Idea's by tilly
in thread Idea's by coreolyn

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