Re: How quickly do you spend all your votes?

I would spend more of them if there were more substantial questions about Perl, and fewer navel-gazing questions about how this site and community works. The only reason I don't spend them all is because my sense of decorum holds me back from downvoting all of these endless threads about voting and reps and how threads you've voted can be more easily queried.

I note that most of these threads are started by two or three monks, and wonder how these monks can be more fascinated, and more endlessly fascinated, by the voting mechanism than they are about the actual topic at hand. It's a vote system. It's as consequential to the monastery as doorknobs are to a cathedral. Use the feature if you like. Move on with your life.

I'll sit back with some popcorn while I watch people polish those (*)-- downvoting doorknobs on this comment.

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[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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Re^2: How quickly do you spend all your votes? by jeffa (Bishop) on Jun 01, 2005 at 13:28 UTC
You get a ++ from me for this. How many times i have i seen "newer-ish" monks come up with topics about the vote system, such as this one, just to garner more XP for themselves? Lots. My recommendation to such monks is stop quibbling about the site mechanics and community and instead start contributing. Code, reviews, tutorials, and SoPW questions that will hopefully generate answers that will benefit many. Spend your energy GIVING to the Monastery, not taking. However, i must admit that this particular node has received quite a lot of responses ... still, i would have rather seen a new tutorial or piece of code instead. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply]
Re^2: How quickly do you spend all your votes? by polettix (Vicar) on Jun 01, 2005 at 16:32 UTC
Sincerely, I fear you won't enjoy your popcorn - it seems to me that you express your point without being rude at all. OTOH, Perl Monks Discussion (which usually collects this kind of stuff) and the other sections of this site are clearly separated or easily separable, even in more "aggregated" places like The Monastery Gates, Recently Active Threads and Newest Nodes. IMHO this, together with the node's title, allow easy skipping of annoying questions without getting no harm at all. You don't need to exit from the monastery library if you don't want `;)` I'll personally continue to give a look to Perl Monks Discussion - maybe because I could be one of those two/three monks you talk about, but surely because I'm interested into this community dynamics in addition to the good stuff one can find. I like to think that much of the site's usability comes from users feedback, which ask features that can be considered silly or unuseful most of the times, but that could be really great ideas and eventually get implemented. Which would mean that we could be able to use the real stuff easily or more effectively, which I value most. Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))') Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How quickly do you spend all your votes? by wazoox (Prior) on Jun 01, 2005 at 20:09 UTC
You seem to confuse unrelated problems. I'd like to be able to find the nodes I upvoted, because it would be a sort of "My Preferred Nodes" list. It may prove useful. It has nothing to do with my XP or reputation. BTW, if you're not interesting in Perl Monks Discussion, just don't read it, why rant about instead? Be consistent.	[reply]
Re^3: How quickly do you spend all your votes? by halley (Prior) on Jun 02, 2005 at 14:20 UTC
It's easy to assume that I am not interested in site discussion, but that would not be accurate. I am merely annoyed by endless rehashing of the same topics, instead of applying any real or novel insight. As for sorting by which nodes you've voted, I'll risk repeating myself: vote freely and don't worry about it. In a year, you'll have thousands of results, and no real indication which +1 is better than another +1. Any claim of real value in searching that way is truly dubious. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
Re^4: How quickly do you spend all your votes? by wazoox (Prior) on Jun 02, 2005 at 20:18 UTC
Unfortunately the same topic is endlessly rehashed, but by different people :) Same things for Seekers of Perl Wisdom, BTW : endless repetition of the same basic mistakes... That's just human nature :)	[reply]