Sadly, people aren't throwing money at me for my contributions to that thread (or my decade+ on this site).
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On a more serious note, I bet it has helped with the marketability of your books.
An hour of consulting work is worth several copies of a book sold, even with profit sharing between me and Onyx Neon.
Now if everyone on PerlMonks told ten people to buy a copy of my book (and not the same ten people)....
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But your contributions are mighty valuable to the rest of us ... and we make money in part through Perl. (That means, thank you!)
Plus, consider what is the very-routine experience here: you hit a roadblock, and by now you know to stop and to Seek Perl Wisdom, and ... bang!! ... often within fifteen minutes you are looking at a thread of very detailed replies, maybe several chunks of extemporaneously-written code. You are back on track, and you learned a lot. “Hit counts” do not mean anything. What matters is the effectiveness of the encounter, and around here, the effectiveness is consistently gigantic.
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