h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How about a method of awarding pips to researchers for truly astounding pieces of work. Here’s a possible scoring system:

10 pips, An entry worthy of publication
5 pips, An entry almost worthy of publication
1 pip, An entry worthy of rejection.

Plus as a type of consolation, pips could be awarded for each character in the entry, true this may lead to high scores, but it shows someone has been working hard.

So if a person writes 11 entries worthy of rejection, they're doing better than a person who writes one accepted entry? *ponder*

Just what are "pips," anyway? It doesn't sound very nice...

Actually, my girlfriends name is Pip, so I already have one.... and one Pip is all I need.

I thought we had already proved our worthiness just
by getting here in the first place.

now what if the pip's squeek? then what'll we do with them?

If they squeek then that is OK. If the pips squeal then they get fitted with concrete boots and taken for a walk on the Thames.

Along the Thames, heh? I live too far away from there... but I could post them!

What part of this globe do you reside? Hey, why don't I just look at your homepage? It better be good

ahhhh! This could easily be seen as a flaw in this system, but I did ponder this problem for some time. Pips will also be awarded for the number of characters (158 characters with spaces so far in paragraph),
thats a very impressive score don't you think.

I reside in a rather large Commonwealth Country... Canada. Hey.. I'm working on it!! I'm working on it.. my HP is gettin ghtere.. I have another one elsewhere..