MemeMachineGo!

I am a sometimes participant on a Perl website, PerlMonks. Its infrastructure includes a wonderfully geeky experience point (XP) system (familiar to any role-playing geek), in which other people’s voting on your posts gain (or lose) you XP (there are a couple of other ways to gain XP, as well, but the big points are from well-received postings.) There are titles associated with different levels of XP, and privileges to be gained along with them, like having more votes.

I’d been slowly crawling my way up to sainthood… I was a bishop, within a couple-hundred XP of being a pontiff. But they changed the rules! Suddenly, I find myself a mere chaplain, and fifteen levels removed from sainthood.

Oh, well. Back to the old monastery.