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in thread (Toward a better PerlMonks) Who do we serve, and why, and how can we do it better?

No, I want to know what posts the peers on this site considered, at that time, to be the “best ones.” ... However, I am somewhat stymied in this, because I can only see the sum of the votes.

Actually, you can’t see a node’s reputation until you’ve voted on the node yourself. So, if you’re evaluating nodes by reputation — and therefore voting on the major nodes in each thread of interest — you’ll have to invest a lot of votes!

But, once you have voted on a node, you can see its reputation spread by ticking the “Show reputation spread” box in the “Miscellaneous” section of your User Settings. That will show how many downvotes were included in the sum. You can then discount the downvotes and rank the nodes by their positive votes. See Display of Node Reputation.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^4: (Toward a better PerlMonks) Who do we serve, and why, and how can we do it better?
by ChuckularOne (Prior) on Jun 13, 2013 at 14:23 UTC
    Wow, I've been lurking here for over a decade and didn't know about the Node Reputation flag until now. Learn something new (even when your not trying) every day. Thanks.