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Yeah but you have to admit he does put in the effort, irritating as he may be he tends not to be outright rude, unlike some of us!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I don't know what the specific definition of "professional" is, because I imagine that most members are professionals, out in the real world.
In order to be an MVP, though, I would imagine that your contributions would have to be valuable (hence the "V"), so that excludes me and my 120k points, because I only hang around the Lounge, and that doesn't exactly serve any useful purpose.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks for all your replies. So, a 'Professional' is one does not hide his/her contact details from CodeProject.
However, regarding subjectivity for MVP, any comment? Because somehow got the feeling that the 'momentum' from previous years sometimes continues into someone retaining their MVP status. Am I correct?
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No, it doesn't. Ultimately, it all comes down to activity. Last year, a couple of authors kept their MVP status despite not having posted anything new because their articles still saw a huge amount of activity. Their articles still added value - a lot of it, and so they were rightly awarded MVP.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Last year, a couple of authors kept their MVP status despite not having posted anything new
We changed it this year to enforce the rule that Article MVPs must have posted at least 3 articles in the previous year.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's a shame - I admired the fact that we were awarding to people who were still giving even though they were no longer as active.
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The issue is that I could still be in contention for MVP status yet I haven't posted anywhere near the level of stuff that some of our newer authors have.
The other option was to only count points against articles posted in the last 2-3 years.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The other option, of course, is for the Maunder to come out of retirement and be an article machine again.
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I feel I'm being baited 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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To quote Sammy Davis Jr.
"Wood eye?"
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Other's have answered as to how members get Professional status. It's open to anyone.
MVP status is awarded once a year and is based solely on the points accrued by a member from the previous year. The award is given to 40 people: 20 for their articles, 20 for their contributions to answering questions. For those awarded for their authoring, they must have posted at least 3 articles in the previous year.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Slightly off-topic but the staff and professional icons are a little too similar.
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Are you saying the staff aren't professional?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Are you saying the staff aren't professional?
Well, if you are implying that someone here's using their staff in a professional manner, I am sure I'd like to be spared the details. 
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It's that Mankini. It slips apparently.
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How is it now?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I noticed the change this morning. Way better now - thanks.
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Feeling so honored (and humbled too!) to get a reply from Chris himself. Thanks Chris for this.
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He's posted over 30,000 messages here. One'd think that'd sorta lessen the impressiveness of his responses. Somehow he manages to keep his value high. 
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In my utter modesty, I think I am to blame for that[^].
~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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Chris Maunder wrote: is based solely on the points accrued by a member from the previous year
So good organisers do not have the possibility to be an MVP ? Article moderation or Q&A edition are also contributing a lot to the site content.
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Excellent point, and one I've been trying to decide how to tackle.
My goal is to expand (dramatically) the ability of members to organise the content. Reorganising, re-tagging, re-editing, flagging etc. This would then result in more opportunities for points and bonuses and would then allow us to provide either an MVP or a new category of special status.
Writing content is one thing, but surfacing the good stuff is really, really important.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Excellent point, and one I've been trying to decide how to tackle
This is good news.
If anything, there is still hope for me to get to the MVP status after 13+years here
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To my surprise I discovered there was some earth shattering changes (no less!  ) which happened to exception with .NET4 !!!
corrupted state exception[^]!
Cool!
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Super Lloyd wrote: corrupted state exception[^]!
I wonder if Obama has an exception handler prepared for that in his State of the Union address tomorrow. 
Marc
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