Re: XP, page ranking, sponsored links and the fortune of PM

[exussum0]

XP is just a contributed value given onto content. That's all it is. Sometimes, the value can be translated into something... either a node is good, or bad. Sometimes, it may actually be unfair. Look at it like this..

We have 3 major news papers in nyc. More actually, but 3 that i'll use for an example. NY Daily News, The Post and NY Times. Now go to all three, nydailynews.com, nypost.com and nytimes.com. You'll see they are each of various reading levels and what not. But you know what sets them apart? What you get out of them. I know many people who read the post and ignore the times as the post is more folkish while the times is less down to earth. Well.. those are my opinions.

What I get out of it is, if a lot of points are awarded to a post, it's either a. really good, or b. popular concensus. Now I bet dollars to donuts, this post qualifies for the latter. The one you linked to, is by a person who, imho, has an ego bigger than their worth. No no, not merlyn, but wassercrats. nice enough guy he seems, but the general concencus will all sway one way because wassercrats is not one of our monks we agree with all the time. Heck, most say he's flat out wrong. But all in all, he acts in a way that most people don't like and that's the way it is.

So you live for XP. Do you have something to prove by being right? Are you trying to live by the general concencous? Or are you just going to be the best monk you can be and ignore the points? 'cause believe-you-me, you will get --'s no matter how great you are, and ++'s when you are just ... well.. something. :)

[Wassercrats]

The "W" in Wassercrats should be capitalized.

[Paulster2]

Wassercrats, I don't see why anyone would -- vote the previous node. I would highly suggest that you create a new account, because most of the monks here only want to flame you, no matter what you put on these pages. Otherwise you will never live up to your true monk protential.

If it makes you feel any better, take a look at chiburashka's home node.

[demerphq]

If it makes you feel any better, take a look at chiburashka's home node

I think you should look at chiburashka's XP graph instead. His XP progression has been essentially positive for quite some time. This is one reason that while he has low XP he doesn't have the reputation that W has. He learned from his mistakes at the beginning and is now in steadily positive territory. If this trend continues eventually he will make saint. Now of course he could "retire" his account and come back as someone else and start from 0 and be there sooner, but I suspect he won't and give him all the more credit for it as well.