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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Well, some of us feel there's no baby in there - just bath water. 
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Why cant we have the info of who voted what? Who gave what rating? Even i tried to figure out why my posts were downvoted and when i ask for a reason, no one replied back.
Naina
Naina
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Simple answer? Human nature. If you see that someone has downvoted you, there will always be a temptation to downvote them in retaliation. I would rather not know who downvoted my posts in order not to engage in this type of behaviour. The other reason is that this will result in a number of sockpuppet accounts being created to continue the attack. In other words, you will still have no idea who did it.
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And yet knowing might discourage random voting. It has to be better than what we have now. Nothing.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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How old are you?
I've always assumed you were in your 30's yet your wiseness never seems to amaze me.
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Faintly Peculiar wrote: your wiseness never seems to amaze me
Seriously? You also think he's a patronizing, smarmy git? Nice.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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At the end of the day it is just a post(not an article) that is being downvoted. It has taken you a maximum of two minutes to compose so what if it gets downvoted? The more you bring attention to how you dislike it the more the culprit/culprits are going to enjoy inflicting the one-vote on you.
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That's not the point (and it isn't just posts, it happens to people's articles as well). I don't care about the points (they don't pay my bills) but I am curious about people's motivation: if I were having a conversation, face-to-face, then people would not act in this manner: it seems the internet allows people to behave rudely and cowardly. Why should someone be able to down vote and run? If they knew that we would know who they are then they may be more reluctant to vote without giving a reason. Yes, you will get the odd sock puppet but that would be fairly easy to figure out and remove.
Doing nothing about this will not make it go away.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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mark merrens wrote: Doing nothing about this will not make it go away.
I would disagree; the more fuss people make about this the more it encourages these scrotes to continue trying to wind us up. Just accept it as part of being a member of an open community, and focus on something important[^].
Binding 100,000 items to a list box can be just silly regardless of what pattern you are following. Jeremy Likness
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It's important to me and I'm not that bothered about the wind up, I am concerned that doing nothing encourages the behavior.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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mark merrens wrote: It's important to me and I'm not that bothered about the wind up
Obviously you are.
mark merrens wrote: doing nothing encourages the behavior.
On the contrary, making a fuss encourages the behaviour as all the univoters can see how wound up you are getting.
Binding 100,000 items to a list box can be just silly regardless of what pattern you are following. Jeremy Likness
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Nice try but no banana.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Say what? 
Binding 100,000 items to a list box can be just silly regardless of what pattern you are following. Jeremy Likness
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3. close, but no bananas[^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Hello guys..!!
Since two days m trying to post a comment in one of my question..but the comment posting is failing again n again..!!..the alert box shows that it have tried for 3 times but still it failed..!!
Do u know any trick to overcome this..?
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Which Question?
What is the exact failure message?
The HBI (Hamster Buerau of Investigation) will need that information to locate the problem.
Now where is that Detective Emoticon when we need it?
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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We have tried to add your comment 3 times without success. Our servers are just a little overworked. Sorry.
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Zac Greve wrote: Now where is that Detective Emoticon when we need it?
Chris normally uses  when investigating that turns to  when he realises how stupid the problem was.
Sean uses lube.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Sean uses lube
Infused with ![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif) to keep the gerbils hamsters well fed.
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How about an undo vote feature?
I just accidentally voted a 5 for an answer over in QA while scrolling down a page using the mouse. As it really wasn't an answer, just a bit more code that OP had added as an aswer, I missed the ability to undo my vote ...
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I accidentally vote all the time when browsing the site on my phone... so, undo would be welcome addition.
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My 5. Ooops, I cannot rollback! 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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CPallini wrote: My 5. Ooops, I cannot rollback!
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"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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I typically go back and change the vote to a 3 when that happens. It doesn't undo it and I know it will still affect the weighting on the other votes, but at least it neutralizes it to some extent.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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