I submit for your consideration:

Policy regarding abuses of the voting system

1. Massive downvoting of nodes belonging some specific user.
2. The use of vote-bots for any reason.
3. Voting on nodes you (the human) wrote.

It seems that new reviews are not being accepted - is this intentional?

From the top menu, select Reviews, then "Add a Module Review" or "Add a Book Review" and you just get

This node has been deleted.

As a reader who has not logged in, the time of post is missing from the view of https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=397425;mode=root-and-node (got "Tough beans" message when the text was a link). That makes it hard to track which thread/post I should read next.

And no, color gradient is not helpful in my case.

Please show the age of post again.

See "perlmonksflair.com : get your perlmonks flair!" for more about PerlMonksFlair.

I had a link to this on my home node:

<p>[id://1049026|PerlMonks Badge]: [http://www.perlmonksflair.com/kcot
+t.jpg]</p>
[download]

Overnight, ++Cristoforo advised me: "Someone linked your `perlmonksflair` link to a porn site!". I immediately removed that paragraph. I'm reasonably certain that I've seen similar links (e.g. http://www.perlmonksflair.com/<monk_name>.jpg) on other monks' home nodes; they may also exist on non-PM webpages including, potentially, $work websites.

It looks like the author, gideondsouza, was maintaining this up to, and including, 31-Jul-2017; that is also the last time he visited PerlMonks. I suspect ownership of the domain expired and was bought by another party (just guessing, though).

I'll add a link to this post on "perlmonksflair.com : get your perlmonks flair!"; however, given the length and popularity of that thread, my addition may not be particularly prominent. Perhaps gods, janitors, or other cabal members with appropriate permissions, might consider adding a large, bold warning to the top of the OP.

G'day All,

Just to be absolutely clear, this is about "Tidings".

The first paragraph of that node begins with:

"Your site maintainers are constantly improving the appearance and functions of PerlMonks to make your experience here the best it can be. To find out what has changed recently, or since the last time you logged in, peruse the headlines below."

Unfortunately, while "constantly improving the appearance and functions of PerlMonks" is certainly true, reporting such via Tidings is not.

I make a point of checking this node every time I log in (that probably averages more than once a day). I rarely see any updates; the last was 16-Jul-21.

I don't wish to single out any particular changes, but it seems many occur without notification in this node. Purely for example, the recent "User Profile Element: CPAN author ID" would seem like a prime example to be notified in Tidings.

I've been a registered user for well over a decade; as such, I'm familiar with some for the foibles of this site. For newer users, or less frequent visitors, this may appear as stagnation. Let's avoid that by either using Tidings regularly or retiring it to the monastic archives.

Discussion appreciated.

Is it OK to post some Perl code I found on the web and critique/make fun of it, or should I just post it on https://thedailywtf.com/ ?

We have just added a new field to the user profile: CPAN author ID. You can put your PAUSE author ID in this field. When someone views your profile, they will see it and it will be a link to the corresponding page on metacpan.

Do you like this? It can be removed if it is unpopular.

Update:

I have turned off users' ability to set this value themselves.
The field itself is still supported, and you can see it displayed on certain monks' homenodes.
If you would like to have your CPAN ID on your homenode, please just /msg gods with your request. Thanks!

Update 2:

As a convenience, I have added the CPAN IDs to user profiles based on the info provided in this CPAN api (about 30 monks) and in this MetaCPAN api (about 185 monks). Interestingly, there was almost no intersection between those two sets of data.

I'm watching Mark Gardner and Gabor Zabo doing some pair programming and wondered if there could be a facility here at PerlMonks to initiate the same thing?

I think it would be like the equivalent of a private chat ... someone is online and you can see what project they would like to code in this fashion. Since you could see their ranking on Perlmonks you could get a feel right away if this might not be a great idea maybe?

I recently did an edit of a post and afterwards did not only mysterious duplicates appear but also was the newest version of the node replaced by an older edit.

I was able to reproduce the problem by going back and forth in browser history and seeing reloads happening:

compare

• Re^2: editing of installed modules, a story of failure
• Re^2: editing of installed modules, a story of failure (duplicate)

Could this be related to different server configs?

Maybe my test was flawed, but I wanted to document it anyway.

Turned out that he used only one word in the title and overlooked the black and bold error-message in between other bold labels. (Which I can understand)

<strong>Title must be more than one word!</strong>

One possible solution for you all is to adjust Display Settings with

strong {
   background-color: white;
   color: red;
}
[download]

This should stand out with all color themes and there are only 14 nodes using <strong> tags, most of which are pretty obscure.

Of course it might be better to add an error_msg class to the CSS, but I learned to humbly make small steps. :)

Title says it all. Is this by design?

While Re^3: designing a program - your wisdom needed by kcott is certainly a brilliant, innovative and amusing post, I'm not sure it is worth its current Rep of 1009.

I fear that talexb's excellent Twenty laborious years -- and I'm glad to be here meditation will be unable to catch kcott's node -- even if talexb gladly slaves away here at PM for another 20 laborious years! :)

Best Nodes of The Year

Update: Note that the astronomical 1000+ rep puts kcott's node on an even higher plane than two historic, celebrated 700+ rep nodes from PM legends Erudil and paco (as noted at the end of The Top Ten Perl Obfus).

Just noticed that beautyfulman's first 25 posts seem to now be completely empty, even lacking a node title, for example [untitled node, ID 11140036].

I'm pretty sure it's against site policy to remove content from your old nodes. If so, should their content be restored?

See also:

• PerlMonks FAQ
• PM Guide to editing nodes.
• How can I wipe every trace of myself from PerlMonks?
• how to delete my account permanently

G'day all and Merry Yuletide.

I just posted a reply to "[OT] Merry Christmas and gift of love": it appears to have disappeared from the system.

I ran it through "preview" a few times — no major changes; just a few typo fixes and such like — without any problems. I then hit "create".

Now, "[OT] Merry Christmas and gift of love" shows no replies, my listed posts from my home node do not show it; it's not in Newest Nodes, RAT or Meditations; even the front page shows it has no replies.

I managed to save a copy of the origin text: recreation is not a problem. There's obviously some underlying problem — that may be very minor — investigation would be appreciated.

Please advise on appropriate action: just repost or await fix. Thanks.