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I sure agree whit everyone else that XP is rather useless... for those intrested in it I post the reason why I believe that. (I decided to put it inside readmore-tags since the post is rather long and since I don't think many will be intrested in it)

The problem as I see it is that there is only one 'Experience number'...
For example, what do you do when someone posts an intresting/funny/whatever reply to a poll? which is not really related to perl coding at all? you up-vote him, and this accounts for his Experience. So basiclly, one could be a "saint" without knowing a single bit of Perl (by replying to polls), does this make sense?

The other thing that botters me is that the older a thread/node gets, the less people look at it, meaning that if you post a useful answer to a question (assuming the thread was a question) then you will not gain much XP (if you gain any at all)...

Another thing one can wonder about if XP represents how useful your reply was to the OP's question... My answer to that is no... I remember a thread about DBD::Proxy, there were a total of 4 replies, the total reputation was 7, does this mean the replies were bad? Ofcourse one could say then don't botter to reply to questions that the general masses aren't intrested in, but then the OP isn't helped at all...

Not to mention down-voting that some times happens by people not having a clue at all... for example I remember making a post which gave another approach to a problem, the one posted was really memory intensive, so I posted a CPU intesive one... Needless to say that I got downvoted (also because that thread was not the newest one on the list)

The way XP is seen is bad... There are people with more experience then me, who know less... (ofcourse not everyone). And the votes you get the highest XP on (or atleast in my experience) are the ones that get front-paged and are faq-like, or of which there is a good POD available (references for example)...

And one can ofcourse wonder wheter or not the votes for the top-node adds up to the Experience... perhaps it would be better to create a question-xp or something like that... Should you be able to reach the highest level only by asking intresting questions? (questions that others might ask, and which probably are answerd in many FAQ's)

Also giving a pointer to the FAQ or the correct POD results in less Experience (or atleast as far as I can see) then given the full answer... but what is the most useful? telling someone where (s)he finds the DOCs, how (s)he should search them, and how to read them? or giving the full answer? meaning that (s)he will most likely come back at a later time asking a question that would have been answered by the same POD...


In reply to Re: Zen and the art of ignoring XP by Animator
in thread Zen and the art of ignoring XP by DaWolf

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