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I have noticed this article has been top of the 'latest best picks' on the front page for a while:
Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT)[^]
Looking at the voting stats it has had a considerable number of '1' votes, but there are no comments. I thought all votes of 3 or less required a comment (which is a great idea IMO).
Also, should an article with a rating of 3.35/5.0 really be top of the list?
Colin E.
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Those votes were cast before we added the comments feature for voting.
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Thanks for the reply Chris, but that article was published 23 Nov 2013, so just over one week ago.
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Oh ... sorry - just looked at the revision history. Makes sense!
I still think that an article with a 3.55 rating doesn't really look right at the top of the list. 
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First off, I apologize if this the incorrect place to ask this; if so, please tell me where it would be appropriate to ask general site usability questions.
Last night I answered a question in QA[^] and I wanted to check up on it, but was presented with "Sorry, the item you requested could not be found.". I know it is possible for the OP to delete a posting, but I thought after people responded, that this was no longer an option. Others had also posted responses to this question.
So my question is, can the OP remove a question after others have taken the time to respond or was some other mechanism involved? Also, the question had received several down-votes (that I attributed to the voters own lack of knowledge) and I do not know if this was the reason for its removal.
Thanks.
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OP can't remove question once it is answered. Down votes doesn't remove the question but 3 reports(Not a question,Unclear incomplete,Repost) delete the question regardless of provided solutions.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Thank you for the information. It is sad if that is the case though.
The OP was abused due to the ignorance of those who assumed that his question was invalid. The reason I say this is because unless you have experienced what he did, the question itself looks like he was too lazy to lookup the file delete method. When I read the title, I knew exactly what he encountered (a issue GDI+ locking the file), but based on the response of others, it was apparent that they had no clue what his issue was and they were responding out of ignorance. I only hope that he received an email notification and that the link I provided to MS article on the issue was clear. It took me a fair amount of searching to track it down when I had first encountered the issue.
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I really appreciate your effort. We come across many questions where OP can easily find solution using simple search. If some one still find it useful,they post solution as you did. But sometimes,due to majority consensus,question gets deleted [Reported by 3 members]. The reason may be "i want","explain this" type of questions. OP is expected to read the guidelines before posting question. One very good document is drafted by Pete O'Hanlon. Please see : Some guidelines for posting questions in the forums[^]
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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TnTinMn wrote: can the OP remove a question after others have taken the time to respond or was some other mechanism involved?
Yes. To both.
The OP can remove the question (and others with sufficient privilege can un-delete it). Deleting your own question is extremely rude and we should probably deduct a poo-load of points for doing so after someone else has answered the question. However, we still need to offer this feature because (a) there are legitimate reasons to delete a question, and (b) you can always just edit and wipe clean a question.
There are other mechanisms that can close a quetion, namely reporting. A question that's poorly posed, off-topic or abuse can be closed if enough members vote it off the island.
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Wrong link, include the right one.
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Already implemented for Articles, Blogposts & Tips/Tricks( and Q/A Questions & answers too I think).
But it's not working for Reference articles. I tried the below one but not getting automatic title on paste.
Useful Reference Books[^]
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Looks great[^]. Expecting more pages soon.
And one question. Why these[^] have been removed from menu(I think 'Features')? Those're also good.
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You get a gold elephant star for having such an excellent memory.
We will create more Learn/* areas and we'll be reworking the old Zones and extending and embracing them (as the saying goes). The old zones were never quite what I wanted. They will be put out to pasture (officially).
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Chris Maunder wrote: You get a gold elephant star for having such an excellent memory.
Thank you. And everyone should use MM's dictionary for PG rated messages.
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thatraja wrote: And everyone should use MM's dictionary for PG rated messages.
I guess he meant an actual elephant, not in the sense of MM. 
Veni, vidi, caecus
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IF I'd been on the turps and said it properly I would have said "You get an elephanting gold elephant star".
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I am not seeing that issue, Chrome 31.0.1650.57.
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I see it when I follow that link. So, as far as I can tell, it only behaves like that on the 'New' tab in QA.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Hello hamsters,
I did not manage to open this ooooold message[^]. Is there any way to acces this thread ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Old messages are hit and miss at the moment but we (And by we, I mean Matthew) are busting our bums putting in place better caching that will make this problem go away.
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