Some points to consider
  1. Do not take XP and reputation too seriously in this community. XP does not necessarily indicate level of expertise with Perl but is more of a very rough estimate about the involvment in the community.
  2. There are a number of other factors besides the content of your post that might have a large influence on your post's reputation. eg: if the thread in which you posted makes the FrontPage then typically it will have larger people voiting (+ or -) than if it were not FP'ed
  3. See point #1
  4. The topic of the thread can be a factor on how mancy people would even read it and consider voting on nodes in that thread. (eg: I am not involved with Apple or OSX in any way and will usually skip any threads involving that topic.)
  5. Did you see point #1 ?
  6. Other posts in the thread can also influence your node reputation to some extent.
  7. You really should see point #1!
  8. Another thing to keep in mind is posts related to reputation and XP tend to get downvoted, especially if they are asking for changes to the site or whin^H^H^H^H^H complaining about (or lack of) a feature
  9. Personality or User oriented download-voting is an ugly reality. However, it has not been that bad in the Perlmonks community. Most people are really really nice most of the time. In case you do think it is a big issue and you are worried about losing XP, you should see point #1 again.

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In reply to Re: The purpose of voting by data64
in thread The purpose of voting by Gekitsuu

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