Last night I intended watching last weeks Most Dangerous Roads on the BBC but I'd missed it so thought I'd just check the newest nodes here instead. For some reason Selected Best Nodes caught my attention and I wondered when I'd last (if ever) checked them.

There are some really interesting and sometimes funny posts in the top 50 but as I read through them I particularly noticed they are all old nodes. In fact a quick scan of the 50 I was presented with (I'm assuming everyone gets the same list but I don't know that) showed that all were before 2007 and the majority are pre-2005.

I've only been a monk since 2005 so perhaps the voting system changed. Perhaps less people vote, there are less active monks or we just don't write as many vote worthy nodes as we did in the past. Perhaps something else I've not thought of.

Any comments?

In reply to Selected best nodes - nothing recent, why? by mje

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