Another issue I have with some Xp-Whores is that they rely way too much on the TMTOWTDI idea in the SoPW area. While it is very good to expose perl newbies that there are different ways to do things, they only need to be exposed to a few of the better ways. In general SoPW works very well with the TMTOWTDI idea, newer members of perlmonks post their ideas on how to do it, and then the more experienced members help to refine those ways. This allows everyone to learn more about perl, and to become better programmers. Sometimes you'll see a post later in the discussion that ignores any discussion previous to it, and shows another way to do it, one that may not be very good for any number of reasons.
Finally, I think that some people Xp-whore too soon after joining, the monastery. They haven't seen some of the advice that's given again and again, and they don't know some of the common answers that are generally accepted in the monastery. For example, a new Initiate trying to Xp-whore might respond to a question about parsing a query string with a method they thought of as opposed to pointing to a node like use CGI or die;. Which although not original, is much better advice. Plus using references to other nodes is a great Xp-whoring tip ^_^
The way to Xp-Whore is to post often, post well, and post things that show that you are trying or at least will make others think, like YAXpD by azatoth, hint hint, nudge nudge. Basically there is little difference between posting and good Xp-Whoring, the only difference is that bad Xp-Whoring is posting anything at all to try and get votes.
That's it for my opinion, sorry if parts of this make no sense, or are disjointed, as I have yet to have coffee, and have to keep doing bits of work, which de-rail my train of thought. So if anything is wrong, or doesn't make sense, or is just really stupid, please /msg me, or reply to this.
-xPhase
In reply to Re: YAXpD
by xphase_work
in thread YAXpD
by azatoth
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