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Take another look at your rating. Hover over the stars to get the histogram and the explanation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I like it, that's a cracking implementation. Kudos to the coders there. When we meet, I will crack open a bottle or three of a decent single malt with you.
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Cool, you added this feature just now? Sweet!
The only thing is, it sounds like an all-or-nothing system. Either the "1" votes are within 2 standard deviations (and always included) or outside 2 standard deviations (and always excluded), which doesn't seem fair as it discounts the haters' opinion entirely (or weights it 100%). What if, instead of completely excluding the "1" votes, you just moved them closer to the average. Taking my article, for instance, since most people voted "5", maybe the "1" votes could be treated as "3" or "4" instead. Alternately, the weight of the "1"s could be reduced.
Another thing that might help to discourage sock puppets angry mobs slightly is to not allow voting from people that joined in the last 24 hours. [Edit: I had written a second idea here but on second thought, it was dumb]
Addendum: Or, since the negative votes are skewed toward new members and nonparticipators, give more weight to longtime members or people with high reputation. If CodeProject reputation worked like StackOverflow, something like the logarithm of reputation would work nicely. But CodeProject reputations can decrease over time, and even be negative, so I'm not sure. Anyway, this kind of approach would also have some effect against sock puppets that upvote articles. It doesn't necessarily distinguish sock puppets from mere lurkers, but I'm not sure if that's possible anyway. You could also mix duration of membership in the calculation in an attempt to discourage sock-puppets (since sock puppets are usually created very close to the time they are used) but then it would discriminate against newbies... well, I see it's a hard problem.
One more silly idea against sock puppets: create a histogram of join dates + votes and only allow one vote per combination of score and date. For example, if 3 people joined Dec. 1, 2010 and all give a score of "5" to an article, only count it as 1 vote. This would mean that sock puppets are less effective if the creator made them all on the same day  . Or alternately, have a script email an admin when lots of people join on the same day to vote the same way on the same article, and the admin can investigate whether it's legitimate or not. Whew. Why I am still up at 3AM, I cannot say.
Just some random thoughts. But I really appreciate that I seem to have been the motivation for this feature 
modified on Saturday, June 25, 2011 4:59 AM
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Can you relax the rules a tad on the Free Tools forum, and allow images in posts? I think it would be very helpful to show a screenshot of the tool being recommended.
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Yesterday I post one answer in VC++ forum
Unique GUID Problem..[^]
My answer is automatically deleted. What I said is not wrong but some one downvote me.
My answer is
Unique ID is a 32 bit hexadecimal string and unique combination that is being created is 2 raise to 128. It is randomly created and not possible to create the same number twice.
I am using COM component for last 5 year and not facing any issue regarding GUID.
Only 1 downvote and the message is deleted.
May be the reason is I write "not possible" but it does not mean that it should be deleted.
I just want to know the reason of deletion.
"Every Little Smile can touch Somebody's Heart...
May we find Hundreds of Reasons to Smile Everyday... and
May WE be the Reason for someone else to smile always!" (ICAN)
"Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny."
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Yeah, not just yours one of the other answers got deleted too. Someone with deletion rights got carried away and deleted two of the answers. You can request one of the admins here to un-delete it for you. Or post it again as a new answer (do mention that the original got deleted).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Yeah, not just yours one of the other answers got deleted too.
I think question was deleted.
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thatraja wrote: I think question was deleted.
That's not correct.
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I'm not sure, but based on your reply I think the question deleted. Already I put a thread for this[^].
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thatraja wrote: I'm not sure, but based on your reply I think the question deleted.
I am saying that's not so.
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When one of the bugs was ocurring with "Q&A comments not appearing", I had a hard time trying to gauge what just happened after deleting a comment that was posted as a solution (not this specific post, it was a different one).
The webpage was acting really funny so I finally gave up, maybe this happened at that time as well, someone was trying to do something and accidentally deleted the post. I know I ended up confused as heck with that bug.
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Hi Nish,
Thanks As per comments I think that it is a bug in CP.
"Every Little Smile can touch Somebody's Heart...
May we find Hundreds of Reasons to Smile Everyday... and
May WE be the Reason for someone else to smile always!" (ICAN)
"Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny."
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Hi SP 24,
I have restored the answer
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Sean Ewington wrote: I have restored the answer
Yeah, go Sean! 
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Duh ner ner ner ner ner ner ner, duh ner ner ner ner ner ner nerrrr Mankini-Man.
*Thwack*
*Kapow*
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Thanks Sean
"Every Little Smile can touch Somebody's Heart...
May we find Hundreds of Reasons to Smile Everyday... and
May WE be the Reason for someone else to smile always!" (ICAN)
"Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny."
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Hi Sean,
There is one more issue in it. The answer is added but again my 16 point is lost. That's not fair. 
"Every Little Smile can touch Somebody's Heart...
May we find Hundreds of Reasons to Smile Everyday... and
May WE be the Reason for someone else to smile always!" (ICAN)
"Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny."
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I noticed this twice when briefly changing my display name, but after entering a name it showed as taken until I pressed the left arrow key at which point it updated to indicate that it was unique.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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0.)Is there a time-out on reports, as it is quite feasible some of the more outspoken veterans on here could accumulate 5 reports over a space of time and be unfairly deleted.
1.)It looks like you can report yourself.
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0) Good question and there should be if there isn't...
1) Well don't. 
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But it is like a big red button that says 'Don't Touch', I really want to.
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Not to mention doing so would tell you how many times you've been reported by others.
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I wish you hadn't told me that, the curiosity was to much and I reported myself for Trollish/abusive behaviour  . I had one report already, which fat_boy admitted too, and now it is two.
Which raises the question, if I now reach the threshold of reports needed and my account gets deleted, will that mean my self-report also gets deleted thus bringing me back below the threshold, which will then re-activate my account and my self-report so will delete my account, which will cancel the report so activate my account....and so on. Leaving me in the void for eternity???  I need to sit down.
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I have the same problems with big red buttons that that you know you shouldn't hit!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Thats why I don't travel on trains anymore, I use to always pull the red chain and because the fine was £20 in the 70's and never increased, by the mid-eighties it was almost worth the money.
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