Is there a way to determine how many people of each level there are on Perl Monks?

It seems like every second person is a level 10 Saint.

Maybe an idea would be to have levels above Saint? Has this been suggested/discussed before? Sorry if it has.

Maybe have a hierarchy, where the person with the highest votes is a Saint (9th Dan). Then the second, third and four highest are Saint (8th Dan). Then the next 9 are (7th Dan), 27 are (6th Dan) and so on. (Id have to see the figures to offer a structure of the right size).

If you dont like the blackbelt metaphore, than how about a series of names instead. God, Ancient Saint, Greater Saint, Major Saint, Minor Saint, or similiar.

Just a thought. :) It might give people a small extra fun incentive to keep participating after they achieve sainthood. And allow others to differentiate contribution levels among the saints. I'm guessing when the rankings were setup, nobody expected Perl Monks to become a PageRank 8 site. hehe.

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

In reply to Ranks Higher Than Saint by tomazos

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