XP was easier to come by back in the early days. Site was busier, content was jumping, gurus did abound. Saying XP CONSIDERED DISCRIMINATORY and that it should be fixed is a bit like saying one should be allowed to buy Google at $50 a share because it used to sell for it and it's not fair to newcomers. The thinking is divorced from reality; a regressive, strange kind of conservatism.

You say you're being screwed. There is a monk in this thread who has been here 4 months who already has more experience than you; another whose first monkday is tomorrow. Taking XP as a measure of accomplishment, you are, so far, the least accomplished monk in this thread; a veritable Perl toddler is ahead. Taking number of posts as the bar, you are second to last. Taking your five years into account... The monks in the top 100 on the Saints page represent a huge amount of CPAN, Perl publishing, and core Perl code. Some of them have six-figure XP on StackOverflow too. Where is your CPAN dir? When are you presenting at a Perl conference? Where is your github repo for sharing the tools you've written? Where are your tutorials? Where is your free Perl book's PDF online?

The only thing that seems to be screwing you is your attitude. PM is, ostensibly at least, a meritocracy, not an equal opportunity grievance board. It's also got its own culture and generally that culture looks on XP complaints unfavorably.

Update: bumped SO XP number to unambiguous level I intended.