I've been here only for about three months, but XP has become the most important thing in my life, more than perl, programming, career, family, and life.

I pray that isn't true.

I can't help to notice that as soon as a post of mine gets front-paged, I'll be awarded lots of XP.

This is due to a lot of people who come to PM every couple of days, click ++ on each of the nodes on the frontpage and leave. Sometimes it's because they want the XP but don't want to spend all the time earning it beyond what is available by just voting on all the nodes on the frontpage. Perhaps we shouldn't allow voting on the frontpage?

So the game is how to get to the front page.

Make friends with a friar or higher and tell him you'll frontpage all his posts if he frontpages all of yours? Create a second account? Write something noteworthy that actually deserves to get frontpaged? All sound like viable options to me.

The posts should indicate how much they paid for and how much XP they desire, the monks are required to contribute their XPs.

What a great idea. This is why everyone loves ads.

;-P