Which list? Worst Nodes or such? Maybe these lists are not filtered for group membership of $current_user. The node you refer to is a patch for the PerlMonks engine, visible only to the pmdevils (and the gods of course, not only because they are member of pmdev).

Yep, Worst Nodes and then I wonder how it could end up there...

Well, patches aren't excempt from the quality survey mechanism of PerlMonks and occasionally get downvoted, although for other reasons than e.g. SoPW's or meditations (patching the wrong thing, introducing errors with the patch, patching based on wrong assumptions, etc). Then often a -1 is enough for them to briefly show up among the Worst Nodes.

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Originally i liked the idea of voting on patches. Then i realized that it was a bad idea because it allows people to show disaproval without providing any substance. It doesnt provide the author with any real information as to whats wrong with the patch it just signals some kind of disapproval. Which is a problem as there are people who can vote who are generally feature adverse. They dont see any need for providing functionality that they do not directly want. And they vote. So i ended up just ignoring patch votes. If the person voting didnt want to to take the time to explain their objection I personally refused to consider their opinion worthy of consideration.

If I were still an active PMdevil I would probably advocate that we remove the ability to vote on patches.

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