Re^2: The Highest Rated Node of All Time (Experience Point References and Pranks)

Ha ha, didn't think of aliens. My first thought was a prank of some sort, checked the date, didn't want to get caught out like poor old zetetes from Switzerland ... maybe kcott's birthday will become a new PM prank day. :)

Perl Monks History

Perl Monks Level System

Voting/Experience System

A Level Playing Field by Petruchio (2005) - new level system announced
I Was a Saint (sung to the tune of "I Will Survive") by sauoq (2005) - Perl poem composed in response to Petruchio's new level system
Translation of the Perlmonks levels ... by ZlR (2005) - translation of PM levels into French (and other languages in replies)

Re^2: The First Ten Perl Monks (vroom gives himself a million XP)
We Have a New Pope by kcott (2013) (Corion tops 100,000 XP; at 12-June-2023, the Patriarchs are: BrowserUk 171828, Corion 159650, ikegami 139669)
Re^3: We Have a New Pope (Spooty and khayos are saints with zero posts! AdamQuark and RavingGoat with 4 posts, cguevara and roke with 5)

Demotions of monks by syphilis (2022) - when and why were BrowserUk, Corion and ikegami demoted from Pope to Patriarch?
Re^2: Demotions of monks by me - we need more levels between Patriarch and His Eminence
Re^4: Demotions of monks by me - concerned for the super-elite top three, striving for vroom's unreachable one million XP target

Levels of Monks: missing a row by kcott (2023) - pointing out an inconsistency between Voting/Experience System (29 levels) and Levels of Monks (28 levels)

Perl Monks Node Reputation Changes over the Years

Re: Selected best nodes - nothing recent, why? (Node Reputation Ranges Over the Years) (contains historical Best Nodes reputation ranges: 2007-present)
Re: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago?

Nostradamus Five Year Node Reputation Prophecy Expires Today! - five year XP prophecy by davies (2011-2016)
Selected Best Nodes: 2011-2015

XP Nodes Added Later

Googlish approach to voting/XP? by ajdelore (2003) - lots of replies (including a 2023 necropost by Bod)

Bizarre/Interesting Experience Point Anecdotes

Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points (as it was unfolding, it was like reading a gripping mystery novel; it remains an unsolved mystery today)
Re^6: Peculiar hash behavior (brian d foy) (was brian_d_foy a Perl 3 user? Doubtful. He bought "Programming Perl" from Clerk No. 28 at Barnes & Noble, Auburn MA, for $29.95 on Saturday the 24th of June 1995 at 1:45 pm)

Let's make BBQ a Saint! (heart-warming community effort to upvote enough of BBQ's historic nodes for him to finally and deservedly be listed at Saints in our Book) (2023)

planetscape and me: 1282 nodes apiece - planetscape and me tied (29891 XP, 1289 Writeups apiece) on Saints in our Book on Jul 8, 2015 (see also many interesting replies from chacham)
Re: planetscape and me: 1282 nodes apiece - adjacent Saints in our Book with the same number of posts

Re: Twenty laborious years -- and I'm glad to be here - epic duel between talexb and jdporter, with talexb reaching Chancellor first (by just 3 XP) on Dec 19 2021
Chancellor of the Exchequer - talexb and jdporter are joined by afoken in this race to the top 50 Perl Monks of all time (2023)
Re^7: Chancellor of the Exchequer (Target Reached) - LanX predicts the exact date for afoken to win this race (2023)
Re^3: Chancellor of the Exchequer - afoken and talexb tied on 2264 posts apiece (2023)

Re^6: When can the character length of a Perl Scalar become an issue? (Easy Lover) - LanX is Nostradamus, predicts the exact date philipbailey will become a Saint (2023)

The Highest Rated Node of All Time (kcott pranked by jdporter aka erzuuli) (2022)
Notification of XP increase has gone wild (maybe) by davido (seeing big bumps in XP, recently congratulated for +92 XP on login!) (2022)

Automatic downvote by harangzsolt33 (like SunnyD, asks if he's being downvoted by a BOT) (2023)
Re: Do we ever want to freeze threads? by harangzsolt33 (replies to a twenty year old talexb thread and talexb is still here to respond :) (2023)
Re: A small step...and a giant leap for Bod by me (compares the XP of some monks after making about 1000 posts) (2023)

Re^2: When can the character length of a Perl Scalar become an issue? by LanX (warns philipbailey that eyepops will soon be taking bets on your sanctification) (2023)
Re^5: When can the character length of a Perl Scalar become an issue? (Easy Lover) by LanX
Re^4: Larger profile pic than 80KB? by LanX (congrats on your 2222nd post) (2023)
Re^5: Larger profile pic than 80KB? (2222 posts) - me 2222, karlgoethebier 2239, talexb 2264, afoken 2272

Other Anecdotes

How to use the -T file op as a one-liner - kcott responds to new post by kwolcott - both Ken and both with cott in their surname :) (2023)
Re^4: How to use the -T file op as a one-liner (kcott's relatives at Perl Monks) - joined by clscott and dcscott
Re^5: first stumbling steps in PDL - jo37 promoted to Deacon on Feb 08, 2024 ... next level Saints in our Book!

See Also

Updated: The list of References above were added much later, long after the original reply was made

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