I can think of a pretty basic algorithm to make this fly. First, you probably discard levels/experience as showing up to vote can place you among the mighty given enough time. Then the ratings of any post with lines of code are measured positive against negative (not sure how or in what formula). A level of "competent" is determined by identifying a monk who is recognized as such, but not by much :), and then peg the scale to that code:positive/negative node rating measure. Anyone above is PM Certified™. Categories of certification can be tag mapped from the use statements in a monk's posted code samples. E.g.: considering my own posts, I would expect to be auto-certified for CGI/Ajax but not Sysadmin.

All y'all are lucky I'm too busy to try to make this into working code right now.

In reply to Re^2: Some reflections on the Brainbench Perl Test by Your Mother
in thread Some reflections on the Brainbench Perl Test by metaperl

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