1st off, I'd like to praise you on the votes. GREAT idea! (as I said before, SWEEET!).
To extend the community gathering and stimulate people to turn to perlmonks for help, wouldn't it be great if you could have a message/paging system where you could directly put ideas in a monk's message box?
I was thinking of something reasonably extensive in the sense that messages could be forwarded to-and-from a node to a perticular user (the author probably) so that certain discussions could be made private and public.
If you need help, I can right up the base and you guys could modify it later to whatever would work (or take away my XP's if you hate it)