The trouble with this is that in many cases, people who
are very important to Perl and who have great knowledge
to share have been too busy working on Perl to write a
book.
I'm thinking here in particular of
Chip Salzenberg who
I've noticed round here posting a number of very useful
nodes. His knowledge of how Perl will actually run a
particular piece of code is probably better than
Randal's. Should we give him mega-XP?
Another great example is Mark-Jason Dominus. A great
"explainer of Perl" both in training courses and in
articles (if you don't know the name, see
http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/
for proof). He's been too busy for the last couple of
years to write a book, but he'd be a great asset
to perlmonks. Would we give him mega-XP?
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<http://www.dave.org.uk>
European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London
<http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>
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While I agree that ability is important, contribution to the site is what, in my opinion, should determine XP on this site. Just like on everything. Webster might have a great thesaurus and dictionary, but he didn't write much on everything. Perhaps the reputation of one's posts should become more important. This way, people who write really good nodes will rise to the top, whereas people who just write a lot of nodes will not rise so quickly. If necessary, the amount of experience to achieve certain levels would be modified accordingly.
Also, the sections. I like to comment on a poll, but my comments on a poll aren't as important as a code contribution is. Perhaps WHERE you post should also make a difference.
Just a few more thoughts :-)
Just Another Perl Hacker
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I agree with you completely, It should be your
contributions to the site that determine your XP. But
that's obivously not what happened with merlyn. Someone
saw that he was around and decided that they'd give him
another 1_000_000 XP just because of who he is. He
has made valuable contributions to the site (even
without the extra XP he'd be in the top 10 monks), but I'm
not sure what good the 'free' XP do.
I guess my question is really: where do you draw the
line? Is there a list of Perl Names who would be given
free XP if they started frequenting the site?
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<http://www.dave.org.uk>
European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London
<http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>
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I agree with all you said except your statement where you
said that comments on polls were not as important as a
code contribution. Generally, yes, you are right, comments
to polls are often silly little things, amusements. But I
would hardly say that the recent posts on this subject fall
into that. Comments on polls can be just important as any
other on this site.
Roy Alan
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