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"Friends" are a way to mark who you're interested in - on use.perl I've seen it used most to make journal reading easier. I go to http://use.perl.org/~louis_wu/amigos [perl.org] and read the latest 10 journal entries from people I have marked Friends. I marked you as friend so that I wouldn't miss any journals from you - that means that I look like a Fan to you. Check out your fans page [perl.org] to see how many people are probabl
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I've found friends to be intensely useful on slashdot. I used it as something to do when I had no mod points; if I saw a particularly insightful post, I'd mark the author as a friend. I configured my account to give a bonus to any posts from friends (or fans), and browse at a threshold of 4. After I started accumulating friends (and even a few fans), I discovered that slashdot was much more interesting to read ... I was seeing a lot of content from people I had found insightful before. I loved the feature so much I hit the maximum number of friends earlier this year and never could figure out what to do.
It's worth noting that on slashdot, karma was transformed from a number into an adjective-rank awhile ago, but it's still a number on use Perl;.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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