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Re: Request for reduction of my XP
by rnahi (Curate) on Aug 15, 2005 at 05:16 UTC
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Repeat after me: "XP is not important."
However, if you absolutely must, then visit thepen
home page and click the nefarious button as many times as
you please.
Your XP will be adjusted down until you are tired of
clicking.
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Re: Request for reduction of my XP
by RMGir (Prior) on Aug 15, 2005 at 12:05 UTC
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Interesting problem...
This is a well-written, polite, on-topic (well, on-meta-topic) request.
So I clearly cannot downvote it.
Yet, it's a request for a loss of XP.
So I clearly cannot upvote it.
Inconceivable! :)
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Re: Request for reduction of my XP
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Aug 15, 2005 at 17:52 UTC
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IMHO, those who obsess about their XP being too high are making the same mistake as those who think it's not high enough. XP is just a number; it roughly correlates to your participation (and yes, "just visiting" is participation) in PerlMonks, but doesn't tell the whole story. Personally, I gauge a Monk's "true worth" by actually reading their writeups or conversing in the CB. :-)
HTH,
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Re: Request for reduction of my XP
by halley (Prior) on Aug 15, 2005 at 12:43 UTC
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I downvoted your post because you used 'loose' where you meant 'lose.' Unless it's lightning bolts jumping out of your fingertips, or it's the dogs of war you're allowing to lunge at their prey, you don't loose things, you lose them.
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[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]
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Re: Request for reduction of my XP
by thor (Priest) on Aug 15, 2005 at 11:50 UTC
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To expand on rnahi's idea, maybe you could write a WWW::Mechanize script and go only half way there (since writing the script would "atone" for the other half). Just a thought...
thor
Feel the white light, the light within
Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come
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My take on the post that you linked to is that it is wrong to vote on individual nodes based on the author (or any other arbitrary criterion). However, the "take away 5 XP" button doesn't alter the XP of any existing nodes; it just takes 5 away from your total. So, in essence, the bot that I proposed would not be a vote bot insofar as the bot isn't voting on anything. Moreover, the potential for abuse is slim; if someone wanted to be malicious with this, they'd have to know the know the password of their atackee. There are far more interesting things to do with someone's password...
thor
Feel the white light, the light within
Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come
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Might just be my interpretation, but that's not a votebot. It's not voting on arbitrary nodes, just hitting a link for a particular user.
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Easier to click 80-120 times than to write a script to do it. Besides, a script can get carried away.
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Re: Request for reduction of my XP
by NateTut (Deacon) on Aug 15, 2005 at 12:35 UTC
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++ for your humble supplicant attitude. Oops that's not what you wanted right? | [reply]
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