Re: The "dead" saints

Actually, I am surprised of those that are Saints before even being born. That is: how could one become Saint without writing even a single node?

Uhmmmmm... yep, that's why Gods can make a Saint of everything :-)

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Re^2: The "dead" saints by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 24, 2004 at 10:09 UTC
Mystery might be fun, but I'll lift it: you get a minor amount of XP just for logging in consistently, and you get an appreciable amount of XP for voting. Someone once calculated that if you pop in and spend all your votes every day, you can become a saint in 8 months. Without ever writing a single node. That is no flaw in the system, btw: voting contributes to the site, and that's all XP means. It's also no flaw in the system because it's not particularly effective; you will gain more XP than you can get for a day's worth of votes from a single decent node. People have gotten to saint in about two months without any special effort. If that really was your goal, you could probably get there in two weeks just by writing a bunch of somewhat well formulated, subsequently frontpaged Meditations. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^2: The "dead" saints by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 24, 2004 at 17:06 UTC
Just so you know, gods can't make someone a saint without giving them XP, and to the best of my knowledge that just doesn't happen. (Well, with one glaring and well known exception :-) --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi}	[reply]
Re^2: The "dead" saints by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 24, 2004 at 08:54 UTC
but don't you know? There is no kabal! Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]