AM I WORTH THE LEVEL ?

I've been here only about 9 days longer than you ... and I'm nearly level 8, Bishop. Am I worth the level? Depends who you ask, I suppose. I'm sure I could point to a couple of people who wish I'd go away, at least on certain topics.

So, to the question. You think that simply asking good questions should not get you some XP, but answering should. Then you're missing the point. I vote for good questions because they are, in my opinion, questions that show thought, show some trial and error, and are questions that others likely have, but may not have gotten as far as the person posting the question has.

If you are providing on-topic, thoughtful questions for discussion, why shouldn't you be recognised for it?

That all said - I've had thoughts about how I would re-organise the XP system if I were given the ability to do it, and if I could convince enough people. I'm sure many people have. But most of my ideas are implementation changes, not concept changes. The concepts of getting XP for posing good questions or giving good answers are good ones, I think. They help promote the community that is PerlMonks. After all, there would be no good answers without good questions. Check out Best Nodes sometimes. You may notice that it often shows 5 or 6 posts from the same thread - good posts (questions and answers) beget good posts, and all are recognised for participating. Seems reasonable to me.

(No, I'm not going to go into my thoughts on re-implementing these concepts - I had that desire ... about 9 days ago ... but I got over it :->)