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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();
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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 ?
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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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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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When I do vote, I try to be as honest as I can - and I ALWAYS comment, regardless of the vote. just rude not to.
I don't just sit here looking for articles to read, though. so, if I am researching something, find an article, and it turns out to be crap, I'll vote it 1 and comment as to why it is crap.
It's rare, thought, as you say - moderation gets rid of some of the real dross.
I have come across more than one article, by the same person, which is 90% plagiarised, and there I voted 1 and commented
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It is only through the ineffable Grace of PooperPig, and your sure knowledge that you are the Hierophant of the Eschaton, that you show this bravery in the face of toxic ignorance.
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While much of what you say is true (though requires easy access to thesauri and dictionary) I can assure you with a certainty unusual outside of the dim-witted that PooperPig is not only Effable, but the porcine beast himself has been effed on more than one occasion.
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If you spot blatant plagiarism, don't just down vote it - report it in the Spam and Abuse forum and let's get rid of it (and / or the "author")!
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Perhaps I should have; in this particular case the author has many articles here, and all that I have seen are just collections of clips from other pages - the occasional one may be mentioned elsewhere in the article.
The author justifies it my saying it is useful to collect the information in one place - but is certainly implying that much of the work is original.
if I find it gain I will report it and let the panopticon dwellers decide...
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I've seen that claimed in prospective articles as well: but part of the T&C's you agree to when you tick the box and press "Publish" is that you have the rights to publish all the material. If you don't, it's plagiarism, pure and simple.
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If something is genuinely helpful or educational I upvote on occasions.
But I seldomly downvote as it sometimes triggers a load of revenge voting. 
I'm going for the report button instead, but that also only on pure garbage.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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For me, a vote of 1 entails the article was totally irrelevant and added no technical value whatsoever, or was plagiarised.
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Plagiarized or irrelevant should be reported so that they can be removed rather than just downvoted.
Downvotes are for bad code, or bad methodology.
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Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I don't anymore; I report it as poor quality or formatting or whatever.
The main problem with ratings is that voters rarely alter a vote once an article is improved.
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It's pretty hard to change a report too.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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True, but if an article has been edited, the report counter is reset to 0. So if you want to undo a report after an article has been improved, then that's not necessary because it already is undone.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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I remember my second article on CodeProject.
After my first (on Try Catch Finally) was a HUUUGEEEE success (well, I had about six months of programming experience and I got a few 5 votes) I decided to write a second.
My very own ORM (sort of, because after six months I had never heard of an ORM, or of anything other than Visual Basic and SQL Server for that matter).
I got a 1... And another and another... And then I got a message that, unfortunately, my article was removed because the quality was insufficient for CodeProject.
I learned two things that day. 1, There are such things as Object Oriented Programming, SOLID, Design Patterns, etc... And 2, people don't like to tell you what's wrong with your article in a civilized and constructive manner.
Luckily someone told me what was wrong with my article (after giving me a 1 and calling me names and after I politely asked what was wrong with it).
I can say I learned more from that crap article than from all my other articles combined. Sort of 
That said, I give a one vote if I feel the author has put time and effort in his article and wants to learn from it as well as educate others.
I don't like doing it because I know how it feels and if I do it I politely explain why I voted a 1 and encourage the author to carry on and improve his article.
It doesn't happen that often as I usually only read the good articles
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public void DoWork()
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Turning a negative experience into a positive one. I like that 
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Actually I still cry myself to sleep at night! 
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{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
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Since the advent of moderation, I have found little use for the onesies. However, if and when I come across pure and utter drivel, one it gets and if it's spam or plagiarism I'll happily report it to boot.
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