"If you find yourself pulling out a rubber stamp then it is time to either use a subroutine or a data structure." -- As Grandfather said here in this thread.

I suggest this site might benefit from a form for nominating "Pearls of Wisdom". They would be short, pithy and displayed, once inducted into the "Hall of Pearls", in a random or perhaps rotating marquee in the header, or the sidebar. Set some threshold of support in affirmative votes. Require that the candidate be nominated by someone other than its author. Use xp, which would accrue to the author, not the OP making the nomination as the voting system. Launch it with a round of nominations to induct the first 13 members, then reset the works to induct a new Pearl each week, after a year of catching up on the backlog, then slow it down to monthly after that.

Just an idea. Not a priority for my next project, mind you.

-- Hugh

if( $lal && $lol ) { $life++; }

In reply to Proposed "Hall of Pearls" by hesco

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