Okay I'll bite on this one. Unlike the scions of Perl here (you know who you are), I'm just horribly busy on a daily basis. But I really like this site and while I've been too tired to really contribute anything lately (last couple months), I do try to browse through and mark up the posts that I think were particularly well-written or helpful.

Frankly, I don't give a shit about XP. The points don't make you a better coder. They don't increase your status with the opposite sex (that I know of). You can't redeem them for cash. Anyone who cares about the means more than the ends on Perl Monks is completely missing the point (pun NOT intended).

There will necessarily be some so-called monks who lose sight of the fact that this is a community, not a contest. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about it, except limit the XP received. As long as idiots think they are getting -something- for nothing, whether or not that -something- is utterly worthless, you'll have XP hogs. I've actually said before that I support XP based on reputation. Theoretically, an XP hog could go undercover by only and often posting funny responses to polls and randomly voting up other people's posts. XP hogs are defined by motivation, not by numbers.

Yes, I realize there are no constructive ideas in this post. I'm just venting a little frustration. But feel free to go look at my user page. I'll summarize it -- writeups 28, most of them not recent. XP, 160-something, most of them spent on chromatic and btrott who almost always have more than one way to do it.

I have always liked this site, and I would like to continue to have choice and freedom in posting as little or as much as I want to, and voting as little or as much as I want to.

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