Nah.

I know there are quite a few monks here that I'd be happy to buy beer for, either for helping out in a pinch, posting fascinating questions or meditations, helping develop cool modules, work on Perl 6, or even for responding to a post by posing The Right Question which illuminates the subject matter and allows the answer to become self-evident.

I will admit to regular visits to Selected Best Nodes for some good reading and for occasionally upvoting undiscovered gems. But an award seems a bit too formulaic for this near anarchic community (and I mean that in a good way, really).

I don't believe giving merlyn a Perlmonks award would be useful -- we already know he's got a tremendous grasp of the language and is in demand to write about and teach Perl.

All we really need to do is to say 'Thanks'. every time someone in the community helps out. Sometimes that's all that's necessary.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

Updated in response to AnonyMonk below OK, OK, I guess I was responding to Re^2: Should there be a Perl Monks Award?, not the original post.

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

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