I'd remembered it as: since Monks are weak and sinful creatures that tend to upvote anything they're pointed at, showing the top n tends to garner enough ++ votes for them that it stops anything else having a chance to break into the category.

But a bit of searching suggests that wasn't the purpose. See Random Top Nodes for the original proposal, and Renovating Best Nodes for the announcement.

Hugo

Thanks for the links. I'm a youngster here and, for all the experience I've garnered writing nodes, I'm still rather inexperienced in the ways of the Order.

I often look at Best Nodes to see what's interesting, but this is the first time I've looked at Selected Best Nodes. My son prompted me by asking "What's the highest reputation node?". I still can't answer that. Is there a way to find out?

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Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

What's the highest reputation node?

I also don't know for sure, but I bet this one is in the Top 5.


holli, /regexed monk/