Actually a lot of those posts are pretty recent, due to the inflation in the number of votes available each day.

Let's see what we have there:

• 3 obfuscations (all from the same guy BTW, I guess he's pretty good at that ;--),
• 2 nice pieces of code, quite long, doing interesting stuff
• 1 annoncement from the Monastery Chief Mad Scientist,
• 1 shameless post specifically designed to get into the list (shame on you Dominus!),
• 3 posts about coding techniques, 1 being more of a tour-de-force and 2 giving practical tips and info on how Perl works and how we can use it.

Overall a nice selection of what goes on here.

So I think that list can stay as is, just the rawreputation of nodes.

What could be added, and it should be fun to do, is separate lists by specific topics. I guess for newcomers something with "the best generic posts on coding in Perl", including Death to Dot Star! for example, would be nice. For those interested in the sociological aspect of the Monastery a list of the most heated discussions (anything involving saving the ChatterBox or publishing the list of users would do I guess...), and of course the funniest posts (how about Life at the Monastery. Chapter 1 for example), plus a best PM how-to's (turnstep's home node already has something like this, etc....

Now how to compile those lists? I don't think relying on the post's reputation would work, it's too dependant on parameters such as when the node was posted. This more of an editor job(not in the sense of a janitor, but in the sense of a publisher).

I think some of the oldest monks could compile a first selection, then set up a voting process outside of the site (so Vroom does not have to get involved in that phase), generate the lists (maybe over a period of time, one per week/month, and maybe revisit them evry now and then with the addition of worthy new nodes) and send them to Vroom who then has just to add a link somewhere at the top of the page.

Any taker?