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I've noticed one of my articles has either the voting distribution wrong or the rating calculation.
My case: An IoC Container in 15 min[^]
It says 17 Fives and 3 Fours, that would be a rating of 4.85. Currently a 4.77 is shown. Actually it was 4.77 some days ago, it seemed weird to me, but paid no attention, but today I received a new vote, and the number didn't change.
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All votes are weighed by a factor depending on the appropriate rep component (Author for articles) of the voter.
For white/bronze/silver/gold/platinum the weights are either 1/1/2/4/8 or 1/2/4/8/16 , I'm not sure which (the latter applies to rep points, either one applies to article and message scoring). So a silver (or platinum?) Author voting your article a 5, would add 40 to the numerator and 8 to the denominator of your score, while adding only 1 to the vote count shown. Since you normally do know the votes but not their weights, you can't accurately calculate your score yourself.
Similar things apply to Q&A, T&T, and forum messages.
[NOTE] Text adapted as a reaction to Sandeep's posts below [/NOTE]
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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modified on Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:13 AM
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I didn't know that. Thanx!!!
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You're welcome.
I just located some of the official material on the subject here[^], it is reachable through the "Help!" menu.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.4
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Very nice!!! Thanx again mate!!
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Just a small correction Luc. Looks like you too are unaware of the weightage change for articles. Now, if you vote my article a 5, 80 would be added to my author score.
Details of proofexperiment here: Discussion with AspDotNetDev on the topic earlier[^]
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Thanks. I remember reading that thread, however I haven't seen it myself yet (never saw 80 points in one rep history line), so for the moment it feels more like a testimony, not a proof to me. Not that I am doubting your veracity, but it takes a while before I adapt to a new truth.
BTW: I do wish these things were clearly documented in the FAQ!
PS: I'll slightly adapt my earlier post.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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Luc Pattyn wrote: however I haven't seen it myself yet (never saw 80 points in one rep history line)
Ditto!
Luc Pattyn wrote: so for the moment it feels more like a testimony, not a proof to me.
Well, if that is the case, let me vote one of your article and then may be testimony will be converted to proof.
Luc Pattyn wrote: Not that I am doubting your veracity, but it takes a while before I adapt to a new truth.
Same hold true for me... so all good. 
Luc Pattyn wrote: BTW: I do wish these things were clearly documented in the FAQ!
Hope Chris reading this.
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What the heck, my Sokoban article just jumped up by 80 Author points. 
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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Now, I have a stronger testimony. AspDotNetDev and You now.
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Actually that thread was about rep points; the current thread is about article scoring, the weights used could be different. You need to perform another kind of experiment to start proving something here!
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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I agree. But, I wanted to correct your 40 points addition statment. 
BTW, just voted your puzzle article now... I found I missed voting that earlier. Please check.
Waiting for another testimony now.
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All taken care of.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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Yeah!
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Luc Pattyn wrote: about article scoring, the weights used could be different
Now, we have another doubt with us as you pointed here.
Is it the weightage or the ratio that has been increased? I hope Chris shares the same with us.
Further, whatever change it is, it looks like the next rep. re-calc will boost few people by quite good number of points. (First it was old bookmarks and now this article upvote points.)
Let see which weekend thats going to happen.
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S Mewara wrote: Let see which weekend thats going to happen.
It failed to run successfully two weeks ago; it did not run (or failed again?) last weekend...
And then there is the bigger question about downloads: being downloaded will be reduced from 5 to 1 point, and historic download logs haven't been processed yet.
We may still be on for a bumpy ride.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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I wonder why a change in member's profile won't reflect all places ? I updated my biography long time ago, but my previous biography is still shown in comments, answers, replays ... Every where.Is it a bug or meant to be like this ?
Wonde Tadesse
MCTS
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Do you mean your signature (the thing at the bottom of your message)?
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Yes, including member's name.
Wonde Tadesse
MCTS
modified on Friday, June 10, 2011 9:33 PM
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AFAIK it will only show up in messages that are posted after the change has been made.
The best things in life are not things.
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My question is shouldn't have to be reflected every places ? Is it a bug or meant to be like this ?
Wonde Tadesse
MCTS
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It's by design. We had issues where members were changing names to spoof others or erase traces of them using sock puppets/fake names.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I see. But is there any facility for good members who want to have consistent signature including name. For example I was using my actual name Yewondwossen for many years and changed to my shorter name, Wonde. So I want my change to be reflected every where. Can it be happen ? please
Wonde Tadesse
MCTS
modified on Saturday, June 11, 2011 8:09 PM
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Wonde Tadesse wrote: For example I was using my actual name Yewondwossen for many years and changed
to my shorter name, Wonde. So I want my change to be reflected every where. Can
it be happen ? please
You only have 51 posts, so you could just go edit each one and change your sig.
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Nish,Thank you for your replay. But still the account name shows my old account name,Yewondwossen C.Tadesse (Wonde) which suppose to be Wonde Tadesse. And there is no way I can able to edit this. Do you have any other suggestion ?
Wonde Tadesse
MCTS
modified on Monday, June 13, 2011 9:05 PM
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