Re: Canonization Without Representation

This indicates a central tendency and predominance of Saints that locked eyes on their future spouse over spilled punch cards...

That sounds very romantic, I've never watched the show but maybe it would have made a great episode of How I Met Your Mother. :-)

Seriously though, what you are describing did sort of irk me when I started using this site more heavily. If I recall my exact thoughts on the topic were, "I swear some Monks could just post a reply that says '*cough*' or '*sneeze*' and get more upvotes than a less known/newer Monk who posts a well thought out and helpful reply." And yes that is an invitation for some of the senior Monks to reply to this with "*cough*" or "*sneeze*", I always prefer humor than a lack of it.

I got over it pretty quick based on the fact that a lot of those monks have contributed so much, not even just in terms of helpful nodes, but in terms of being janitors, pmdevs, etc., that they deserve 10 times the fake internet points than they already get anyway. There are times where I think a node (Monk) deserves several upvotes, so I'll pretty much upvote anything they say (within reason and good conduct) in the thread to compensate for the limitation of one per node.

As far as attracting new members, I'm not sure how much the XP game plays in to that, I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that it's a primary or even determining factor for most users... and that's coming from a self professed XP Whore and ~~younger~~ youngish late arriving Monk. :-)

Just another Perl hooker - And definitely not the kind with any $class whatsoever.

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Re^2: Canonization Without Representation by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Mar 20, 2017 at 20:56 UTC
I believe that ensuring `COUGH xor SNEEZE` would be safer, since I/O deadlocking is a known risk on most compatible hardware.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Canonization Without Representation by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 20, 2017 at 21:01 UTC
Did you try turning it off and resuscitating it?	[reply]
Re^3: Canonization Without Representation by perldigious (Priest) on Mar 20, 2017 at 21:32 UTC
Thank you for the laugh SuicideJunkie, exactly the sort of humor I was hoping for. I bestow the title of "Winner of the Internet" on you... for today... well, so far, maybe someone can still top that. Heaven help us if people start deciding to throw in other semi-voluntary bodily functions and given-when if they want to get 'experimental' and risk possible bodily decompression of some sort. :-) Just another Perl hooker - And definitely not the kind with any `$class` whatsoever.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Canonization Without Representation by trippledubs (Deacon) on Mar 21, 2017 at 11:04 UTC
haha. It irked me too so I acted. People use the word terrorist and 5 year old but I like to think about what people say. I have been to places where thinking does not matter. In these places might makes right and they affect my world view. This is probably true for many millenials. I see the Marine Corps cannablizing its female recruits in the news and I will not even silently sanction such behavior. Maybe no one will ever care that I don't, but I will speak nonetheless. A little tricky marketing to MAYBE get people to read what I say and get my message out is only because I care about these issues. I will get over my negative XP, in this social media age, we cannot let a little embarrassment let us become jaded or lazy. Thanks for participating in my XP whoring thread :) negative xp get links too hahaha. I've been here for five years, I wonder how many READUPS I have and if this compares to the saints	[reply]