Let's also be honest with ourselves. There is a bit of karma/XP whoring going on in certain threads. Consider that it is a joked about condition of the community and it's advancement structure.

Because of that way the voting system rewards you for actually voting and the fact that the first post(that looks technically correct) will most likely get the most votes when people are trying to spend all their daily vote allotments, you can see that some participants may RACE to post their thoughts without reading an entire post just to be first. I've seen posts that were completely off-topic and I've even seen posts that were completely struck-through with comments like, "didn't read entire post".

Now I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I bring this up because I notice no one else has mentioned it thus far and I think it does play a role in some of the inaccurate responses out there. But one should keep in mind that it's the rabid participation that drives this community and makes it 100 times better than any similar place on the internet. And honestly, haven't all of us done this once or twice in our participation here?

Let he who is without sin...

In reply to Re: Please read nodes carefully before replying by pzbagel
in thread Please read nodes carefully before replying by gnu@perl

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