Otay,

On sorting the posts -- oops my bad! :)

On the testing . . .
The last thing I'd want to suggest is anything that would detract folks like yourself from participating on this site. In the final analysis it is people like yourself that make the site work. My idea evolves more from the bottom looking up, and seeing that perlmonks is extremely rich fertile ground for developing new perl people, and knowing how such level-testing can provide some organizational control as well as self-gratification.

Simple testing would not be meant to be a roadblock to advancement, but more as a general gauge of apptitude that would give the lower level folk like myself some sense of where they fit (It could also assist in allowing new highly expirienced perlmonks a faster road to advancement). While the current expirience system does this to some extent, there's no way I should be at monk level quite yet. I got to this level more by perl advocacy and voting then by perl knowledge, and I know it. If there was some way to put the expirience levels more in lines with Tom Christiansens perl levels (sorry can't find the link at the moment) I think it might be of more value to the users.

The team challenges was just an off the cuff idea, that stemmed more from picturing all the perlmonks in a massive 'tug-of-code-war'. It made me smile so I thought I'd throw the idea out there