++ on the idea of little "citizenship" tests.

I am not sure that I like the involuntary nature. I like KM's badge idea.

How would it shake out practically? Would you be able to view which badges monks had acquired?

Who writes the tests? I wouldn't recommend testing on Perl -- that seems disingenuous, the site is supposed to give you a place to teach yourself at your own pace the parts of Perl that you need or want to learn. You get to Saint by a lot of hard work and participation, not because you know some incredibly obscure property of a Perl function. You get there faster if you know the obscure parts, of course.

I support the idea, though maybe it will turn into the equivalent of the hated and burdensome "Civics" class one often has to take in public schools. These things often go horribly wrong because people forget to tell the test-taker the reason for the test. Or the reason is only written down as part of the required reading for the test. Or something like that.

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