Sorry dep, I ++'d you even though I wanted to -- you because in my view you have contributed to the Monastery. That's my only real criterion for upvoting. Now if you want to yammer on about your cat or kids or S.O. and none of them have a cool use for Perl, then I'll be happy to neg. you. In your case and in the case of most non-code posts here, the content is still highly useful to this group of people that have to function in the real (frequently non-code) world.

Here are some personal theories about code posts vs. non-code posts:

• I don't like to ++ code posts if I can't verify them to be correct or at least very clever, so I'll often leave them unvoted. Since I personally use Perl for data crunching and not CGI, this means that I will rarely vote a CGI post at all.

• On the flip side, I will vote one way or another for non-code posts if I think they offer some insight or other benefit to the readers here at the Monastery.

Basically the audience for a given code post is likely much smaller than the audience for a non-code post, and hence the vote potential varies similarly. Unless someone wants to go to a great deal of trouble to implement two different vote categories, I'm content to accept XP as a measure of contribution in general. As for Super Search, it sure would be nice to be able to optionally exclude all posts that didn't include <code> tags.

(Actually I think you're just trying to push the envelope on XP whoring here, but on the evidence of your past contributions I'll give you the benefit of the doubt ;-).

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser