Re^3: Canonization Without Representation (vanity)

[stevieb]

You can go on believing that I'm posting something I wrote in the past just to get more votes. There were 38 and 58 votes respectively on those two posts, so it is very, very likely everyone here who has read this thread has *already* voted on them, if they are to vote at all.

I posted them so you can get a better understanding that my time here has not been spent trying to achieve better XP. Perlmonks is literally part of my life. I am here every single day when I am available, while at work (I don't even code Perl at work) and while I'm at home. The only time I don't have a tab open to Perlmonks to help others (and/or learn from others) is if I am not on a computer.

I am also a very avid member of the community as a whole. I have two-dozen plus CPAN distributions, 82+ open source repositories across multiple languages, contributed to at least two dozen other Perl distributions, and am an active member on other sites, doing the same thing there as I do here, including many other programming languages and technologies.

Perhaps if your attitude changes from "everyone is an XP whore and that's all they care about" to "what can I do to be a more productive member of Perlmonks, and/or the Perl community in general", you'd see things differently.

I upvote when I see fit, and I very, very rarely downvote. For instance. I have not downvoted a single post in this thread, yours or otherwise. There's been no need; you aren't repeatedly pushing poor code on someone, you're just sharing your opinion, and that's fine. I don't agree with it, but each to their own.

I hope you can get over this hurdle.

[trippledubs]

I know the feeling. I was partly inspired by you to be more genuine on PM and contribute more. You said 'make sure i am fit for community', but I think this is naive, sometimes. You should also make sure the community is fit for you. I was getting only minimally votes and feel strongly about marginalization. When Browseruk uses advanced M-A-T-H it makes it seem inaccessible, people without the background won't even read it, just up vote and move on, not really learn for themselves.

I went to College, beat Calculus and receive 80% upvotes and in Calc II only 70%++ upvotes. I re-look at BrowserUK nodes, still not understand :) Picked up Philosophy recently and RTFM says, when you know what is good you should do it immediately. It is very scary thought but PM can represent exactly the same EXPERIENCE that real churches did in ages past. Or Universities. Or both. Most of the actual CS classes came easy from studying here. Had assignment on Compilers. I tried very hard and Professor cancelled assignment right before it was due, when everyone else first started working on it, and I was convinced I could pass. After a few students came in and complained that it was too hard. I was super mad, the right thing to do was to grade the papers. I didn't learn anything, get A. This is only gamification of education, has worked for a long time though, but when Prof's give out As this game not important, people just go online and learn everything for free. This is scary for me. How will buy food if everything free? How will tripledubs live large if everyone not work hard and produce jet skis and the like? Money is game, but very important, it is the VALUE. Paper not worth anything, can't eat it.