I have to agree about the XP system. I notice that XP is not usually issued for doing something extraordinary complicated, but something that is simple and explained well.

This node was around 40 rep for explaining the difference in localtime. Not exactly rocket science but evidently people seemed to think it was useful.

My last node, I was not paying attention and posted a bad code and it got quickly marked down. When I noticed I fixed and it got marked back up.

I was a bit embarrassed that I had submitted such bad code and I did not like the idea of negative rep, so I believe the system works to motive people to contribute, by not allowing bad explaination or examples.

In reply to Re^2: A Cautionary tale for Newbies "Monks don't bite" by Herkum
in thread A Cautionary tale for Newbies "Monks don't bite" by Gavin

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