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<h1>What is reputation?</h1>
<p>Each writeup (user-posted node) has a numeric <i>reputation</i>, which is a (very unreliable)
indicator of the PerlMonks community's collective estimation of the writeup.
A writeup's reputation is simply the sum of the up-votes and down-votes which that node has received.
So, for example, if 5 monks voted <c>++</c> on a node and 3 other monks voted <c>--</c> on it,
then that node's reputation would be 2.
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<p>
Please remember that only <i>nodes</i> have a quantitative reputation; <i>users</i> do not.
Each registered monk has <i>experience points</i>, a distinct quantity which is determined, <i>only in part</i>, from
the up-votes and down-votes which his/her writeups have received. Read [id://5938] for the gory details.
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<p>
(Of course, everyone has <i>real</i> reputation and <i>real</i> experience, but
PerlMonks makes no attempt to quantify these. :-)
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<hr/><i>Back to the [PerlMonks FAQ]</i>