I agree that sending a message to the poster is an excellent idea and will encourage them to post more in the same vein.

But perhaps there are other things you can do. For instance, if it is a root node (question, meditation etc.) you can Front Page it. This often helps with the XP.

You could also reply to the post you are impressed with explaining why you believe it is particularly useful. It maybe that with a little rejigging it would be suitable for another part of the monestary. Perhaps as a separate (front pageable) meditation, a tutorial, cool uses for perl, snippet, Q&A etc.. This would help raise it's prominence (which wouldn't hurt the old XP!) and would almost certainly generate more discussion which would help improve it even more.

You never know, if enough people agree with you it could even eventually make it into the FAQs.

I believe that keeping an eye out for the gems that may otherwise quickly slip out of view can only help build Perls documentation in general and the monastaries contribution in particular.

Hubris comes to mind :-)

So, I think you're wrong about the votes! But you've provoked an interesting discussion. :-)

jbrugger++