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Hello,
Am new here and am somewhat curious. Is it possible for one's article rating to go down after being UPVOTED? Anything like negative votes or weights?
My article Genetic Algorithm - A 'Walt Disney' Introduction[^] had a rating of 4.80. It was later upvoted twice (both 5's) and is now 4.65. Can someone please edify me?
thanks,
Regards
Ugochimbo...
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Aha!.. Thanks.
Ugochimbo...
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Hi all, and apologies if this question gets asked a lot.
I submitted a tip (Type aliasing in using declarations) on friday and it is still in a pending status.
- How long to tips normally take to get approved?
- If there is any improvement necessary in the tip where should i be looking for feedback from the approvers?
Please forgive my slight impatience and put it down to an over-eager newbie to CP (it's my first submission so I'm curious to see if its up to scratch)
many thanks
Pedis ex oris
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You probably need to add some more information to the tip before it will be approved. As it stands, it's fairly lightweight and you haven't sufficiently clarified when you need to do this, e.g. where you have name clashes between classes in multiple namespaces. If you really want your tip to shine, try adding in a bit of IL to show what the underlying effect of doing this is - low level details always go down well.
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Thanks, I'll try to flesh it out a bit but the murky depths of IL are bit much for me on a monday 
Pedis ex oris
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That's what tools such as Reflector or JustCode are for.
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I have now fleshed it out a little and added the IL to demonstrate that the alias is purely pre-compilation
Pedis ex oris
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And that gets you your first vote for approval. Unfortunately, you need 4 more votes I believe before it gets promoted.
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*waits in eager anticipation*
Thanks for taking the time to look at it and for your guidance in getting it up to scratch 
Pedis ex oris
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No problem. Glad to be of service.
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My Article was Deleted at this link:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/web-security/StuxnetMalware.aspx
The Reason for deletion is:
"has been deleted because it copies in whole or part the material in the article at [http://ispy.infospyware.net/images/2010/MrxCls-Stuxnet-Loader-Driver-English.pdf]. We take plagiarism seriously - please respect the rights of others." by Sean Ewington
But I'm the same Author of both two articles ... and I decided to merge the two articles ... you can check that yourself and you will see the Author is Amr Thabet
Please I need to restore it very soon
Thanks,
Amr Thabet
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I'm working on an article at the moment and I'm finding that there are lots of interesting little side notes - often the additional knowledge is helpful to those more familiar with the subject, but overkill to those who are reading through for the first time. Ideally I'd like to be able to put these in some form of call out box thingie, much like you might find in a Dummies book. Not that I would admit to reading a Dummies book you understand.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what sort of markup I can use for this sort of callout box, as I am aware that extra markup would normally be removed on submission?
Thanks,
Chris
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Chris, I normally mark it up using the address tag or the italic tag.
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Hey Pete,
Thanks for the response. I guess these would do the job! I should have thought of italics myself, but the address tag is a new one to me.
Thanks,
Chris
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Hi,
I recently posted a tip[^], and today wrote a response to a comment on the tip. I noticed that when I deleted my early-version comments, they still 'show up' when I visit that page. I'm curious if I can see the deleted comments because I am logged in, but no one else can ... or, do they ... by design ... persist for a while ?
... edit ... strike the above: I logged-out of CP, and verified that the deleted comments were not visible while logged-out. duhhh-oh ...
Second, I noticed someone has taken their time to re-format the tip so it uses CP style font/font-size/color tags for sub-heads, and a monospaced font for .NET objects and operators: is that common ? I hadn't thought about what it meant to set 'Editors' for a tip to 'Platinum members' ... in fact, I realize that: I have never looked to see exactly what a 'Platinum' member 'is.' 
... edit ... I now realize the formatting was done by a CP editor, thanks ... I finally looked up what a Platinum member is ... and now I can't forget ...
If anyone reading this can notify Henry Minute, I'd really appreciate his looking at the tip, and its comments, and responses, since his 2009 CP article is mentioned/discussed in it. His feedback would be very valuable.
thanks, Bill
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis
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Since you are able to post here why are you not able to contact Henry?
The best things in life are not things.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: why are you not able to contact Henry?
Hi Richard,
In his posts, Henry does not enable e-mail ... I don't either. I am reluctant to post what is essentially a private message on the Lounge.
However, now that you mention that, I think I'll leave a note for him on the feedback section of his 2009 article, so thanks for jogging my memory !
best, Bill
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis
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You could have responded to any of his messages asking him to contact you privately. As you don't normally accept email direct on your messages you can always enable it for a day or so to let him in.
The best things in life are not things.
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I'm sorry if my posting here upset you, and I hope you get over it ... soon, because I am likely to do it again if another situation arises that is relevant to article writing on CodeProject, and I am communicating with an intent to add to the technical quality of the content on CodeProject.
Henry posts many messages per day in the Lounge; given the frequency of his posts, I do not assume he necessarily reads the responses.
Anything else bothering you ?
best, Bill
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis
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You having a bad day, week perhaps?
I offered some useful technical advice as to how you could make direct contact with a CP member who does not accept personal emails in response to forum messages. I'm sorry that has upset you, although I am at a total loss as to understand why.
The best things in life are not things.
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Hi, please don't hit me for mentioning MS Word. I was wondering if there was any master document / export script combination (that creates acceptable HTML output) available which could be used for writing articles. Does anybody use such a thing?
If no, how do you do the automated spell checking?
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I wouldn't use Word as a starting point. If I did, I'd copy the text out into Notepad and paste it into a web editor (into the article template) and then go back through adding the formatting that I needed. Alternatively, as I write in a web editor anyway, I'd use the built in spell checker in Chrome or Firefox to help me.
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I posted a comment to the author of this article[^], asking for a bit more detail; today he responded asking for some guidance. However, when I looked at the article it has been closed following votes by (list of CP members) but no comments were left as to why. It seems a bit harsh to vote for an article to be deleted without leaving a comment for a) the author, and b) others in the CP fold, so we all understand their reasoning.
The best things in life are not things.
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