While I understand your position, I disagree with your suggestion for changing the system for earning XP for voting. Re-read Voting/Experience System. The key there is the word participate. The XP system is designed to encourage participation, especially for the newer members.

In my first few months, I was duped into thinking that I was really accumulating experience because my XP was rising and I was climbing through the levels. I made sure I used up all my votes daily, thoughtfully and judiciously. Then it slowly dawned on me that this was just a psychological ploy to get me to read more postings and to make me feel like I was a productive member of this society. And it worked!

As I have said before, XP is more a measure of participation (PPP) than of Perl experience. If monks started looking at XP this way, there would be less strife. I don't think the XP system is broken, I simply think it is inaccurately named.

I am no longer compelled to spend every vote daily. My XP value vastly overstates my true experience as a Perl programmer. However, I know a lot more about Perl than I did 2 years ago, and that probably would not have happened had I not been lured into playing the XP game -- and it is a game.

In reply to Re^2: Down-vote Bad, Up-vote Good (participation) by toolic
in thread Down-vote Bad, Up-vote Good by lostjimmy

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