Don't know if it's kosher to followup on a three year old post, but I ran across this thread looking for advice on how to vote (I recently became and acolyte and I'm trying to figure out what the ground rules of thumb are for voting.) I definitely agree with mothra here. Your position in term of experience points bears little correlation to your actual knowledge of perl.

It's better to think of experience points as a measure of how long you've been with this site and whether you've used it as intended. On an ongoing basis.

Personally, I feel my level of Perl knowledge is quite high -- I've been paid to program in perl for about 9 years now and I've learned an awful lot in that time, but I don't feel slighted in the least at being just an acolyte. I haven't been with this site that long and my participation is sporadic at best.

That's my $0.02.

--DrWhy