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Remove the spam link, post it only as a plain text or better don't post it at all and just write musle pills spam.
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Are you guys planning on doing something about the fact that any article, no matter how bad it is, written by an author from India, gets tons of 5 star votes from other members from India just because author is from India, which skews the article score and misleads other members?
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You need to raise this with the admins, not here: we have no access to the database which would prove or disprove your conjecture.
However, neither do you - so any claims of racial bias in article voting are likely to be seen as a racist attitude rather than realistic.
But feel free to ask the admins. Posting this here: Bugs and Suggestions - CodeProject[^] will reach them.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So I raise a legitimate question about something that is clear to anyone reading the articles and you immediately accuse me of racism!?
Last I checked India was a country, not a race and there is nothing racist about my question.
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Let's just discuss options to find possible solutions instead of letting this devolve.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There was nothing racist about my question. I said "authors from India" as in country of India not Indian race and that was clear to any unbiased reader so why did you not react to his post accusing me of racism?
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Calm down  OriginalGriff didn't accuse you of racism. He wrote "claims of racial bias in article voting are likely to be seen as a racist attitude" and surely he meant that it would be seen as racist attitude of the site/its admins if something was done along the lines of not counting votes from Indian users.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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(please keep in mind while reading the following, my english weak)
I don't think/hope the statement from "netizenk" is based on racism. It is simply a fact... which is hard to solve.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Let's assume there is a "friends and family" (or whatever) bias in voting.
What would you suggest we do?
- Ban votes from those who share similar attributes (same IP, same city, same country?)
- Mark votes as having a certain attribute (has same IP, has same country etc)
- Ban rating altogether for articles from certain demographics?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How about a system which will allow us to flag people who are submitting high rating votes to what is clearly a poor quality article and filter their votes out of overall article rating?
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The problem is you can't see who's voting.
If we opened that (and we're discussing it currently) then what you're suggesting is a system that says "if you don't agree with me then I'll report you". That's a little off.
I get what you're trying to accomplish.
What about thinking about it a different way: The friends of the author want to give him a pat on the back. Why not allow people to
a) vote on the technical merits of an article (and restrict that to high ranking authors / experts)
b) give someone a pat on the back (and open this up to everyone)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: a) vote on the technical merits of an article (and restrict that to high ranking authors / experts)
b) give someone a pat on the back (and open this up to everyone)
I like this idea.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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