Re^2: Mystified by perlratings

It's a chicken || egg problem. If I find cpanratings.perl.org to be useful, then I'm willing to contribute. But if I can't use what's already there... Why would I contribute to a project that doesn't strike me as useful? If I'm in the habit of checking out cpanratings before I use a module, then I'll probably put in a review of the last module I used.

The overall usefulness of the tool would be improved by being able to filter and sort - e.g. showing only results that have ratings.

throop

Comment on Re^2: Mystified by perlratings

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: Mystified by perlratings by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 20, 2006 at 18:19 UTC
You might contribute also out of idealism, e.g. because you have the strong belief that it will be useful one day. I guess that's the fuel on which every site runs after bootstrapping, then for a while. If after the initial idealism there's no broader acceptance, then either there's something fundamentally wrong about some impotant bits of it, or it's just not needed. (I wish I would have been here when perlmonks did bootstrap - I still wonder about how they (you) managed to give this site a going. Is it the Everything Engine? the idea of combining a newsgroup-like thing with posting (node) reputation and personal XP? Is it that you were just so smart people, and high quality coders? all together, I think.) --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^3: Mystified by perlratings
by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 20, 2006 at 18:19 UTC

(I wish I would have been here when perlmonks did bootstrap - I still wonder about how they (you) managed to give this site a going. Is it the Everything Engine? the idea of combining a newsgroup-like thing with posting (node) reputation and personal XP? Is it that you were just so smart people, and high quality coders? all together, I think.)

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

[reply]