How is it seen?

Well, look at dragonchild's post:

Funny thing - every job interview and independent contractor discussion I've had over the past 4 years has, at one point, referenced the fact that I'm a saint on Perlmonks.

This indicates to me that people (or atleast some) see it as a representation of Perl knowledge, if not then why would they botter to refer to him being saint on Perlmionks at all? It would only mean he spent some (or maybe a lot) time on a website posting messages, maybe by asking questions, or posting to polls. (ofcourse a lot depends on the one doing the interview and the research that has been done, someone could easily look at his post and see, but I can't tell wheter or not that is done)

And that's the same way I saw it when I first visit this site... Silly me though it would somehow indicate the knowledge of someone, ofcourse it didn't took long before I realized it doesn't.

XP sure isn't about Perl knowdledge, but where is that explicitly stated on this site? Someone that is not a regular visitor here (maybe someone doing a job-interview) might not know that. Which would IMHO create an unbalance between people knowing perl (and helping at other places then this site (such as mailing lists, IRC, ...)) and someone in here asking questions, and getting XP for it...

As in, who do you guess has a better starting position (at a job interview)? Someone helping out in other places, or a level 7 (for example) at PerlMonks? (how he got to that level is completly irrelevant ofcourse)

(update, typos)