Glancing at the chatterbox today, I noticed that some of the higher-ups were pointing at nodes recently posted (usually buried in threads) as good nodes to consider in general (not for the PM section, that is!). I would figure that after a day of voting, such nodes will bubble to the top naturally, so I was thinking of how one might find such nodes. Since I only try to use PM a few times while at work (:D), it's generally hard for me to search for these nodes, and of course, without voting for them all, I won't see their reputation to beginning with, thus not knowing if they are high up there or not. In addition, if one goes on a trip for a few days, they might want to come back to see what the important points that were made through the week were.
I know there is a highest reputation node list overall on the site, but I'm wondering if it exists or is possible to create a page where the top N (20?) nodes for a given day or week are listed ? Obviously, you would not want to reveal the reputation of these nodes unless the person voted for them, so they would be displayed in random order; in addition, this means you would have to fix the value of N for all users as so that someone that might be trying to horde XP goes to try to figure out the exact reputation values by playing around with N. (Of course, on this point, this is NOT /., and I really don't see anything close to karma whoring, so this might be a non-issue).
This way, for example, I can check in from home and see what high points were made, whether perl-specific or PM-specific.
Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com
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