There are a lot nicer ways of getting a lot of comments from fellow monks than what you've done here.
You know this, or this is just your hope?

Top nodes from last 300 Meditations ordered by number of 1st level comments:
33/161 Perl is dying
23/59 this node
21/70 O'reilly some sort of perl monopoly?
20/61 The Perl Hacker Inferiority Complex
20/54 The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl.
19/41 Let's face it, Perl *is* a scripting language
16/69 Perl in the Enterprise
13/56 Secret Perl Operators: the boolean list squash operator, x!!

... and ordered by overall number of comments:
33/161 Perl is dying
21/70 O'reilly some sort of perl monopoly?
16/69 Perl in the Enterprise
20/61 The Perl Hacker Inferiority Complex
23/59 this node
13/56 Secret Perl Operators: the boolean list squash operator, x!!
20/54 The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl.
19/41 Let's face it, Perl *is* a scripting language

So, you see, there is only one node (Secret Perl Operators: the boolean list squash operator, x!!) which isn't use ranting in any way, and it isn't in 'top 5' in both lists. I don't try to say been in 'top 5' "is goodness", :) I try to say that node is unique enough and sort of singularity.

You've just made a very bad reputation of yourself by doing this.
BTW, guess who is author of top nodes? Right. Anonymous Monk. That's probably because their authors worry about their reputation on PM, while I'm just worrying about development reliability, security and overall quality, even if this costs me some reputation points.

2006-09-20 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'ranting'

In reply to ranting (Re^3: Reliable software OR Is CPAN the sacred cow) by powerman
in thread Reliable software: SOLVED (was: Reliable software OR Is CPAN the sacred cow) by powerman

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