Re: I used to be a saint

It's just a maturing process for PerlMonks. When I hit sainthood (3000 XP) four years ago, I think I was around #80. Today, there are 416 people with 3000 XP or more and 73 people with 10,000 XP or more. I think it's really cool I have something other than attempting to break into the top 5¹ and vainly attempting to surpass BrowserUk² to look forward to.

However, there is an actual real change - the XP required to have 40 votes/day has gone up dramatically. 3000 XP used to have 40 votes (it now has 24). You now need 30,000 XP to have 40 votes. You can also get more than 40 votes/day - a Pope³ gets 54 votes. I am definitely looking forward to spending an extra 2 votes/day voting on all of Abigail-II's nodes until he hits 40,000 XP. :-)

I'm #7 right now.
The only person who joined after me with more XP than me.
While vroom is the only Pope right now, merlyn is only about a year away from becoming the second Pope ...

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: I used to be a saint by Ovid (Cardinal) on Oct 31, 2005 at 03:09 UTC
However, there is an actual real change - the XP required to have 40 votes/day has gone up dramatically. 3000 XP used to have 40 votes (it now has 24). I wonder how that's really going to play out. Will the $NORM drop significantly as there are fewer votes per person or do enough people fail to vote that it shouldn't make a difference? As of this writing, it stands at 11.3789 . It will be interesting to see if it drops. If so, it may take considerably more time to reach the levels we've previously attained. Cheers, Bishop Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]
Re^3: I used to be a saint by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 31, 2005 at 03:23 UTC
Actually, among some of the lower XP levels, the number of votes/day increased. So, it's possible that $NORM might increase. The drop occurred in the 1000XP+ area. I suspect that most of those people don't spend all their votes, anyways. Frankly, I might spend up to 20 votes on the day's posts, if it's an odd day. The rest I spend on my quixotic quest to increase Abigail-II's XP to 40k. (I usually increase his XP by 10-15/day.) My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]
Re^4: I used to be a saint by Ovid (Cardinal) on Oct 31, 2005 at 03:44 UTC
And don't forget to vote for paco! (Amusingly, this node has one of my hightest downvote to upvote ratios :) Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]
Re^4: I used to be a saint by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Oct 31, 2005 at 05:45 UTC
I don't see how you found the number of votes/day increased for any resonable level, pre40k xp. See my post at 504156 for why the numbers don't correlate with that statement. And see this post for my problems with the new system: 504144. Evan Carroll www.EvanCarroll.com	[reply]
Re^3: I used to be a saint by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 31, 2005 at 03:18 UTC
Possibly increasing $NORM is as good an indication as any that the Voting/Experience system was due for a shake up, unless the overall quality of nodes has actually gone up appreciably (which is possible too). You just have to continue posting more good stuff Bishop Ovid, which is a lot of what the whole XP system is about anyway. Now you have more incentive :) Father GrandFather Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]