Thankyou for the ++. I did mean my response because I spent very little time or thought on it.

I didn't answer the "there are a lot of things monks are supposed to be, but lazy is not one of them!"" question because I don't know who wrote that and why and I am too lazy to find out .... but if the person who wrote that quote is listening, please don't be lazy and tell us why you wrote it and what you meant and I promise to (non-lazily) update my The First Ten Perl Monks node on the history of Perl monks with your answer.

Dear eyepopslikeamosquito (our historician:)

the meaning appears very clear to me given the context: Saints in our Book goes:

> These are our most cherished users — quantitatively speaking. Work hard and you will receive the recognition you deserve! And remember: there are a lot of things monks are supposed to be, but lazy is not one of them!

Rank is based on XP and XP on parteciapation ie: vote and being upvoted. So laziness is not a monk daily virtue, but operosity.

That said we all wait the author enlightening us!

An ancient monks motto fit well (where Ora in our case is Programma ): Ora et Labora

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

I remember a famous BrowserUk experiment where he set out to prove he could gain lots of XP by posting nothing but utter rubbish. Despite holding all ten worst nodes of the week his XP kept on flying upwards! At the time, I felt Buk's experiment was redundant because another infamously lazy perl monk had already proved it.

Given the success of Buk's experiment, perhaps that quote should be re-worked somehow by replacing "lazy" with another word, such as your "operosity" suggestion, or perhaps "busy", "buzzing", "active", ...