Reading the post below by Anno, it occurs to me that since PerlMonks collectively can be considered a major authority on Perl, why not issue our own award to Perl related sites? The voting system could possibly be used for approving nominees.

I'm not really sure. You see, the point is that the voting system is a strange beast. Which is the reason why in this section often people post "suggestions" proposing changes to it. (Mostly downvoted on the basis that the current system works well enough and changing it constitutes a risk not worth any possible gain.) For example, nodes tend to "decay" and very good answers even addressing points not touched by other respondents tend to get very few votes if not posted early enough, and I don't mean a year later, just a few days. Similarly, that's what happens when a node is a deep reply in the thread or comes below other ones. My own experience is that some nodes of mine into which I put many efforts and much care gained a lower reputation that ones that I judge to be more superficial. But that's the way it is and I just don't complain. Only, I'm afraid that basing the attribution of an award on the reputation system would be biased. OTOH the poll mechanism would come closer, but it's optimized for fun and wouldn't be really reliable either. (I knew that you could vote multiple times if posting from several different IPs, I don't know if it has been patched, but I don't think so, since there's no real need for such a thing.)

In reply to Re: Should there be a Perl Monks Award? by blazar
in thread Should there be a Perl Monks Award? by hangon

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