Sorry
dep, I ++'d you even though I wanted to -- you because in
my view you have contributed to the
Monastery. That's my only real criterion
for upvoting. Now if you want to yammer on about your cat or kids or S.O. and none of them
have a cool use for Perl, then I'll be happy to neg. you. In your case and in the
case of most non-code posts here, the content is still highly useful to this
group of people that have to function in the real (frequently non-code) world.
Here are some personal theories about code posts vs. non-code posts:
- I don't like to ++ code posts if I can't verify them to be correct or at least
very clever, so I'll often leave them unvoted. Since I personally use Perl for data
crunching and not CGI, this means that I will rarely vote a CGI post at all.
- On the flip side, I will vote one way or another for non-code posts if I think they
offer some insight or other benefit to the readers here at the Monastery.
Basically the audience for a given code post is likely much smaller than the audience
for a non-code post, and hence the vote potential varies similarly. Unless
someone
wants to go to a great deal of trouble to implement two different vote categories, I'm content
to accept XP as a measure of contribution in general. As for
Super Search,
it sure would be nice to be able to optionally exclude all posts that didn't include <code> tags.
(Actually I think you're just trying to push the envelope on XP whoring here,
but on the evidence of your past contributions I'll give you the benefit of the doubt ;-).
--
I'd like to be able to assign to an luser