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OriginalGriff wrote: I assumed
Never assume.........it made an ass out of u, but not me (on this occasion)! 
I did notice the latest survey was correct, strange why its updating fine.
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Works well here.
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Are you sure.....i mean really sure? Thats what Griff thought to begin with as well, see above.
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I'm getting the same, the lounge latest list hasn't updated in over 20hrs and the list of articles always starts with "A Type-safe Generic Pointer".
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
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Thats fine then, three independents say homepage is broken, then there is DD who is broken.
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Looks like the caching app took advantage of my travel day to take a day off. Back now, and it seems to be working.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Reading through Q&A, and voting, seems to be a bit underappreciated.
Some people put a lot more effort into answering questions than many OPs’ seems to put into both posting their initial questions and responding politely by voting, and possibly marking the questions as answered.
Answerers often get down voted just because the OP didn’t like the answer, not because the answer was wrong.
At other times several members answers the same question, giving similar answers at the same time. If I think their right, I feel that giving “my 5” to all of them is the respectful and proper thing to do.
If I just wanted to collect points, I could stick to just answering questions, largely by practicing my google-fu skills.
So please let us show our appreciation of the efforts made by other members without banging our heads into restrictions on voting to often
Regards
Espen Harlinn
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Someone gave you a 3 for this, I countered it with a 5.
BTW I totally agree. I often specifically spend some time going through answers and voting 5s for the good ones. And I've often noticed that you do that too.
I think doing that is equally important as it helps future readers of these threads to identify the better answers, recommended by people who know better.
So thanks a lot for your efforts Espen, both in providing good answers, and in voting up the better answers from other people. 
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Nish,
How would you notice that a specific member has gone through some answers and 5 voted them?
How can you tell who has voted for a post?
Pete
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Peter Mulholland wrote: How would you notice that a specific member has gone through some answers and 5 voted them?
How can you tell who has voted for a post?
I can't. But most of us (including Espen) add a comment explaining why we voted. Example, "voted 5, best answer so far, propose this as answer". This comment is as important as the vote because the comment adds weight to the vote specially since it indicates that the comment comes from an active member who is known to post good solid answers (people like Espen or SA, Sandeep, Manfred etc.).
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I totally agree and appreciate it. 5!
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Just voted you a 5. I'm sorry I had to, but I guess you realize now that downvoting is Codeproject's dirty little secret. Really, there is absolutely no need to downvote anyone or anything. If a post obviously violates site rules (spam or racist or personally threatening), it should be removed, and anyone can click on Vote to remove message. If an article is very poor (or tries to sell something), there is the Report button.
You say "Answerers often get down voted just because the OP didn’t like the answer". Unfortunately, that is a very generous viewpoint. There is often no reason at all for the downvote; or maybe the downvoter is just having some fun, and doesn't care what your answer is; or maybe somehow you have offended someone and he is "getting even".
In any case, like Nish says, we do appreciate your answers, and I hope you keep a positive attitude about this situation, until we can eliminate the downvoting entirely.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: until we can eliminate the downvoting entirely.
I am all for this.
Either vote a 5, or mark as abuse. There is no need for a down vote!
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Thank you!
OK, so far there's you, me, and Pete. How many more do we need to beat up on Chris to make Chris see reason on this?
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Count me in.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H.L. Mencken
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I mentioned it because I try to "upvote" whenever I see an answer that's been unfairly downvoted.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: there is absolutely no need to downvote anyone or anything. If a post obviously violates site rules (spam or racist or personally threatening), it should be removed
I'm happy to get Luc in here to debate the opposing side, but from where I stand I still like to vote someone a 1 when I totally disagree with them. They aren't being abusive. They aren't posing spam. I just don't agree with them and like to be able to have a mechanism that shows the overall feeling of myself and others towards a post.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I just don't agree with them and like to be able to have a mechanism that shows the overall feeling of myself and others towards a post.
It may have its rare uses, but the negatives far outweigh any good it has. Removing down-votes from posts and articles will make this a much better community in my opinion.
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Maybe so, but wouldn't the 3's become 1's instead? I agree with Chris on this. A 1 also gathers views in its own way, it just means that I am in disagreement and I want others to notice.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Maybe so, but wouldn't the 3's become 1's instead? I agree with Chris on this. A 1 also gathers views in its own way, it just means that I am in disagreement and I want others to notice.
Not sure what you mean. I am proposing having only 5s (no 1 to 4 votes).
That's how it's in other forums like the MSDN forums. You either vote a post up or don't vote at all. You can report abusive/spam posts (does not count as a down vote).
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That's a bit too restrictive though. Everyone has some interest in some article or another. That would come down to just who having the most votes (count) as opposed to who having the best votes (total). I can understand if you wanted to change it from 1-5 to +/-1, then that would equalize all votes. But then again, that means votes for what works quickly as opposed to what works best might put the former ahead of the latter. I think the current methodology safeguards against all these scenarios.
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Well if you change you perspective of how votes work, then you will see that having only up-votes does not lose any functionality over having up/down votes.
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