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Jeffrey Walton wrote: How about CAPTCHA with an Opt-Out choice?
Well that would eliminate one of the three reasons Chris gave. The other two are probably more important though. The suggested way to contact an author is through the message board in the appropriate article/
Chris Maunder wrote:
Our members were getting hassled, spammed, threatended - you name it. We pulled the "Email Author" link to stop this.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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I wish article rating would identify the user that gave a vote. It's never pleasant to take a 1, and articles are taking time to write and are there to help those who need them. If you give a 1 or a 2, please explain why, or you just do it for fun? In this case i would suggest you to abstain.
Criticism should be constructive otherwise it hurts!
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i've also observed that some not very well intentionned people were scanning all new articles, and without reading them entirely, were attributing the lowest possible grade. I noticed it because i had 2 articles in the new/update section, and they received a 1 in not 5 minutes.
I hope webmasters of this site have this in mind. We should be able to comunicate with those attributing a rank without posting comments. Maybe the lowest grade is justified for my articles, but i don't know why, even though i think those who are doing this are just willing to do harm...
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Now here is a crazy idea... maybe they weren't great articles....
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Well maybe not, but i will never know why right? These article are about what i do, not for a living, but as a hobby, and it hurts to hear someone saying: "what you do sucks!", without even identify himself or explaining why.
I do not believe that my article suck, nor I believe they should deserve 5, there are obviously people that spend more time than I trying to achieve perfection. What i believe is that some guys around just do it on purpose and they should be watch and banned...
People should have the responsibility over their opinion. I could also sweep all articles and attribute a grade 1 to everybody! Some people think this is funny, i don't.
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David Domingues wrote: I wish article rating would identify the user that gave a vote. It's never pleasant to take a 1, and articles are taking time to write and are there to help those who need them. If you give a 1 or a 2, please explain why, or you just do it for fun? In this case i would suggest you to abstain.
Criticism should be constructive otherwise it hurts!
I've been frequenting these forums for about a year now and can say, without doubt, that the voting system (1) is dominated by a small number of nasty malcontents, and (2) does not reflect the views of the CodeProject community at large. Note, for example, that your articles have been viewed thousands of times, but the total vote count at the time of this writing is only ten. Clearly, the bulk of the community is not participating in the voting process. Most of the alleged 3.7 million "members" here are interested primarily in getting prompt answers to technical questions and really don't contribute in any meaningful way.
But regarding constructive criticism: I attempted to scan one of your articles (the latest one) and found it difficult to do so because of errors in your English grammar. I think a lot of people here scan articles - they read them quickly to get the gist of them. Unfortunately for you, improper and unfamiliar English forms are simply hard to scan; one finds himself re-reading too many sentences. Your article, I thought, was good; but I had to work too hard to discover that.
This, of course, is a difficult problem to fix, since English is not (I presume) your native tongue. If you can't get a native English speaker to proofread and edit your articles for you, I would suggest keeping them as short as possible. This will give you practice in being succinct (good in any language) and will give the reader less to re-read where the form is unconventional. As we often say in our house, "A small success is more impressive than a big failure."
Now let's see what kind of (and how many) votes this messages gets!
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Well said.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Yes, unfortunatly English is not my native tongue. Thank you for your opinion which is contructive... 
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There's another Portuguese-speaking member here, ClickOK, who is also working on improved English language skills. If you could get him to review your next article, I think both of you would benefit. I'd be glad to take a look at the result, as a native English speaker, and provide whatever insights I can.
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This is very nice of you, thank you...
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True. An optional text comment would add value.
This suggestion does make some good point. Why has this been voted down?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: This suggestion does make some good point. Why has this been voted down?
Whatever the reason, it certainly proves the author's point!
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Link to My profile[^]:
I have submited an article yet Status = browser and I've been a memeber for 2 years , Today second anniversary and yet status = bronze. There is something wrong right?
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No, there's nothing wrong. CP usually takes a couple of days to update profiles.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Profiles are updated each Sunday.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hsppy anniversery!
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Thanks ! 
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As we have so many categories now of message boards, it might be nice to list them alphabetically.
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Hey! I don't parallel park big brown Econoline vans on the left side of the road!
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There would be many ways of ordering:
(*) Alphabetical
Other ways:
(*) Latest Posts
(*) Most Visited.
Isn't it?
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I'd prefer a random order. Never the same list twice. It would force you to actually look and see what you are clicking, wouldn't it. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
I agree with you that my argument is useless. [Red Stateler]
Hey, I am part of a special bread, we are called smart people [Captain See Sharp]
The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson]
I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]
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lol, I thought it was already random.
How about we just add a script so that it reads our mind and automagically opens the page for us.
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Because many of the CPians minds may just corrupt the poor servers.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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