in reply to frontpage nodes

Just curious, which nodes are questionable?

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Re: Re: frontpage nodes
by epoptai (Curate) on Feb 17, 2001 at 04:23 UTC
    Today:

    1. Re-writing CGI.pm was an obvious troll. (has since been removed)
    2. Why was indirect object syntax inferred here?o high-level user using pre tags!

    Some others i might mention are more personal preference, just not anything i'd check the frontpage box for. Since a frontpage slot almost guarantees a high rep, i think they should somehow earn the spot. Requiring a node to be > $NORM (above average quality) should be the bare minimum IMHO.

    Update: To answer LD2's question more clearly, the suggested minimum reputation would be greater than $NORM, which is a perlmonks variable that's calculated daily and reflects the average reputation of all nodes created during the past week. The current value of $NORM is 8.0911 (it's usually between 6 and 9) and can be found in Voting/Experience System.

    /me appreciates the irony of this parent node's immediate promotion to the frontpage =)

Re: Re: frontpage nodes
by arturo (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2001 at 03:54 UTC

    To number numbers, Re-writing CGI.pm for one. And others whose content is not questionable, but are just victims of the nasty "format your code with <pre>" meme that seems to have acquired such a grip lately =)

    Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor