Thanks for catching that! There's two things going on here. One is that dem bones should not have been zombified. I think it was caught in a sweep. Even though dem bones has no writeups, he's a very special person in the history of PerlMonks. The other thing is that it is not normally possible for a user node to have a non-zero reputation; some god must have given dem bones some rep at some point, for who knows what reason. I am unzombifying the account, but I'm not going to mess with the rep - at least not right now. :-)
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon staffed with 16,000 zombies.
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I guess in the very early days it was possible to vote on home nodes...
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The thing you must always remember is that not everything of significance in the history of PerlMonks was actually captured within the content on the site itself;
PerlMonks was essentially a demonstration of the Everything Engine (one of many), so we're really talking about "What was Ryan dem bones Postma's involvement in Everything?"
It seems that he was much more about content — writing, quality control, etc. — than programming; I'm not even sure he was a Perl guy at all.
See The E2 Backstory (which, you'll note, was posted by clampe — another central Everything figure who, like dem bones, has left no artifacts here other than a user profile.)
For an interesting little insight into dem bones' importance in E2, see The Node Code, which shows that only he and nate held vroom-like status there!
Of the current monks, perhaps only chromatic actually knew him.
Right; afaict, chromatic is the only one of the original monks still active. :-(
Update: - if "Last here: (27 weeks ago)" qualifies as "still active" :-( :-(
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon staffed with 16,000 zombies.
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In ye olden times voters could vote from the jump.... Shouldn't have been renamed ... Or listed in best nodes | [reply] |
