On Apr 19, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

>>
>> I've never been a Perler myself, but hearing about this makes me want
>> to be one (except for the language, LOL.) Would it be terrible to
>> create a Ruby equivalent of this? Would that result in too much
>> dilution of the community and maybe result in segregated communities
>> (experts on "Rubymonks", the rabble on ruby-lang?) I mean if it has
>> worked in the Perl world.......
>
> As much as the idea is initially appealing, I find it kind of elitist.
>  What would be nice is if there was an archive where ruby-talk threads
> can be rated, and authors given 'experience points' etc, but would be
> a 3rd party setup, rather than something built into the system.
>

I'm not really a perler either but I have browsed  perlmonks  
occasionally. I don't get the impression that they are particularly  
elitist, many of the questions posted to the front page are often  
"nuby" type ones, and just like on the ruby-talk ML they often  
generate esoteric discussions among the answers ;)