i have a habit of being late to post, so with further ado,

First of all, your post generated a lot of discussion (although i found a lot of people not answering some of the questions directly : ). ++ for that.

To go through the list, there are three basic reasons to post as i see it:
1) you want points
2) you want to answer a question or discuss in general
3) you want to have fun

i could be competely wrong as these are somewhat subjective, but it's what i have generally seen. Also i have the general impression that once someone understands how perl monks works they make their posts more efficient: try to get points and try to discuss or have fun as well. Hey, maybe all three!

Do people post soloely for experience? i'm sure almost everyone has tried to garner some extra experience from time to time (almost level 5, almost level 5, just need one good post... ; ). It seems for the most part though that to generate a "good post"(tm) one needs to have some thought into the content, which is good all around if people follow what seem to be the general voting policies (shameless plug for points: ; >).

i suppose my take on it is that, yes, people try to rally for points, but when they do, what they use is usually a relatively well-thought out post (even a story has to be well told to get its point across). This adds to the site, not detracts.

jynx

as always i could be completely wrong in all regards and respects on any of the former or latter material forthwith henceforth : )