Re: Most loved nodes

[shotgunefx]

An interesting post++. I don't know if others feel this way but I find that majority of my 10 are by no means my more valuble posts. I've had some posts that I thought were interesting orcool that just went largely unnoticed. Another reason not to put too much stock in it.

Not saying that there isn't value in the voting system, just that many variables outside of quality IMHO impact a post's score.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

[bronto]

++ to gmax for me, too.

I agree with you, as I have the feeling that my best nodes are not on my top ten, too. I tried to analyze the phenomenon and wrote a meditation that, in my mind, could work as a tutorial for newbie monks. That was one of my more controversal nodes, on which I had a lot of votes, about an half were --; and it never reached meditations (it was moved to discussions). Aristotle, too, wrote a node on the meaning of XP and pointed me to it.

From time to time monks come back and discuss about XP: XP is good, XP is bad, XP makes monks hungry, XP makes monks angry... my feeling is that XP makes the site alive. Why? Because it is good and bad, makes people hungry and angry and so on ;-)

Ciao!
--bronto

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The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz

[Aristotle]

This is quite expectable, actually. :) Think about it: the "best nodes", ie the highest voted nodes from all of the site don't highlight all the hidden treasures from all the authors we have. Why should that be any less true for the highest voted notes vs the hidden treasures written by any single author? Nevertheless, I think both facilities do have value. One should just be aware of the caveats, as always.

Makeshifts last the longest.