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Just curious to find out under what conditions you would awarded an article a mark of 1.
CP has a moderation process to ensure that all articles at least meet a certain standard of quality before they are published, so under what conditions would you give a very low mark to an article?
Personally, unless the article was condoning bad practice or was technically incorrect in some way, I would rather point this out in a comment than give a poor mark.
What do others think?
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- it should not be copy/paste from articles across the net. (I´m not good at spotting this, but others are  )
- too short/unclear
- bad writing, bad lay-out.
- hello world type of stuff
Basically I try to imagine the added value to the community. It should add something new, like a tool or framework or give a new insight to something that already exists. I generally only mark it as not good enough (yet), I rarely explicitly vote down.
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Your list pretty much sums up my reasons as well.
I would also add that the article doesn't state the intended goals and just rambles on about a random topic.
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I'd do both - the mark of 1 is important in moving the article down the rankings so someone searching is not as readily directed to it.
Although, I do agree, it is very rare that the moderation system allows rubbish through...
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: it is very rare that the moderation system allows rubbish through...
I presume you have not moderated any article in the last five years.
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I have - but I didn't let any rubbish through  and other moderators do an even better job than I did.
I will say - in fantastic management whalesong and josticks speak - that receiving a vote of 1 is often a good learning experience. Therefore any 1 with a genuine comment is as appreciated as a 5.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: herefore any 1 with a genuine comment is as appreciated as a 5.
Regrettably, only by those who care about quality. There seem to be a lot of "authors" who post only to boost rep or make it look good on their resume, and they can take umbrage if told there is a problem!
Doesn't stop me doing it when I see garbage, but I generally also hit the "Extremely poor quality" flag as well...
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OriginalGriff wrote: There seem to be a lot of "authors" who post only to boost rep or make it look good on their resume
That's one of the reasons I do it.
Of course bad quality does neither of those, so I'll be sure to write good articles!
Luckily that's not a problem since it's fun doing it too
Without the fun it wouldn't be worth it, but my articles sure as hell go on my resume!
It's an OO world.
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{
public void DoWork()
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I can understand that - and quality articles will (I would think) boost your chances. But plagiarised, badly written, or poorly-thought-out "articles" would scupper your chances, certainly with me.
For myself as a past-employer, I'd love to have been given a list of references - it'd have given me a chance to know how the guy thinks and works before I selected him for interview. Or not, as the case may be! 
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I was on a job interview recently and I had to answer a questionnaire prior to the interview.
The questionnaire contained questions that test math skills, logical thinking, programming skills etc.
One question (divided in a few sub-questions) was about SQL.
"So, Sander, what surprised us was that you've written prize winning articles on SQL and that you got a Microsoft certificate for Querying SQL Server 2012... Yet you answered the question wrong."
I told them I had probably misunderstood the question.
They laughed and I got the job (starting januari 1st).
I'm pretty sure my articles helped as I have no formal (finished, working on it) education in the IT business.
At least those articles show that the author knows what he's doing.
But perhaps more important that he is willing to put his time and effort into learning.
It's an OO world.
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{
public void DoWork()
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throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Congratulations on your new job ! 
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Thanks! 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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Congrats on the job. I've been looking for a few weeks, only getting good interviews this week, but so far nobody technical has ever even mentioned my articles on my CV. On the positive thinking side, maybe I must write a few more to fill a page with links and make them noticeable. On the other hand, maybe I must remove them. 
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What I did was "casually" mentioning them myself.
Them: "So, what would you do when [situation]"
Me: "Well, what I would do, and I learned this bit when writing an article for CodeProject, is [stuff I would do]"
Try to ignore that!
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: other moderators do an even better job than I did
The moderator forum is full of thread entitled "This not an article", "Who agreed to let this article pass through moderation" aso.
This dicussion already took place, and I'd probably toss more than 50% of the articles away that made it through moderation, but from what I understood, my standards are too high - which is BTW the reason why I have never ever written anything, since anything I could write would land in the "Another 50 lines article including 47 lines of code".
Not everybody is able to write good article - actually few are able to - and mass does not account for quality.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: in fantastic management whalesong and josticks speak
Yes, but some of us cannot afford those drugs.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Quote: I'd do both - the mark of 1 is important in moving the article down the rankings so someone searching is not as readily directed to it.
I actually didn't know that, so that's useful information.
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Dominic Burford wrote: CP has a moderation process to ensure that all articles at least meet a certain standard of quality before they are published
*cough* *cough*
Dominic Burford wrote: Just curious to find out under what conditions you would awarded an article a mark of 1
The article is crap and should be buried, so as not to pop up in search results (Google, CP internal, etc...). Comments may help, but do not allow to make bad things visible. Voting is moderating, commenting is showing ineffective politeness.
Also, I vote down everything by Griff, otherwise his rep would be even more rocketing
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: Also, I vote down everything by Griff, otherwise his rep would be even more rocketing
Aha! Now, lets see what RaGE has published...
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See above thread, I am too honest and too technically poor to write articles - the honesty part being that, knowing that, I do not try and write some).
Also I of course do not downvote your articles.
I mean, not only. I also downvote your posts and your comments and I spread rumors over you in your neighborhood.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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There is no rumour that you could spread that is worse than the plain, unvarnished truth of his existence.
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Have we already talked about his immortality ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: his immortality
You have a t too many there.
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Rage wrote: I vote down everything by Griff
This is unnecessary now because, I have it on good authority, OG has hacked the CP servers, and all up-votes for his posts, and QA answers, and articles, are now distributed, at random, to needy CP members suffering the paralyzing agony of low-rep-count.
OG has foresworn sheep, as well as reputation, and taken up the Boddhisattva path, which I admire ... from a distance of at least 9585.25286 kilometers.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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