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It's ridiculously hostile. And MSDN is just weird. There's one guy on the SQL forums who is an MVP and his replies are ALWAYS the accepted answer, the answer is decided by the mods, and sometimes I am the only one who posts the correct SQL, he just posts to nit pick something I said, and his reply is marked as the answer. If answers are elevated in searches, it will make their forums close to useless, IMO.
Code Project is definitely the best environment for answering questions, fostering community and helping people. You have to answer a lot of people who just want their work done for them to find someone willing to talk and learn, but it does happen.
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Christian Graus wrote: the answer is decided by the mods
I thought the OP selected the accepted answer. (At least that's been my experience.)
/ravi
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The mods propose which post is the answer. The OPs don't care about the answer marking process, so if they do it at all, they accept the answer that a mod promoted.
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I'm sure the mods have God privs and can do whatever they want, but when I asked this[^] question on SO, I was the one who selected the accepted answer.
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Sorry, I'm talking about MSDN forums now. The SO forums are different, but MSDN has a two step process, a question is marked as a proposed answer, then accepted. The mods seem to propose the answers by MVPs, even if they don't answer the question ( they have a threaded forum, they can't differentiate between answers and comments like CP can ).
When I have asked questions on SO, I got no answers at all 
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Ha! I've rarely (if ever) found a useful answer on MSDN.
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I am not surprised. It seems to be an MVP love in.
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I used to spend a fair amount of time time on MSDN but got tired on the BS. The moderators had no real power to moderate and tended to mark answers based on MVP status or worse, mark their own incomprehensible gibberish as the answer. I can count on less than one hand the number of people their that I have a high regard for.
I got curious about their MVP program and looked up the criteria, at that time it was more of a popularity contest in which a person could even nominate themselves for the status.
For what it is worth, from what I have seen of your answers in the past, your typically high quality answers would only earn you disdain over there.
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I have been an MVP, it used to be less political, or perhaps I just had not noticed yet. I was also a mod early on in the MSDN forums and I left in disgust over how they mishandled the whole thing. I stopped being an MVP for a variety of reasons, a long time ago. That is to say, they stopped asking me
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LOL - that's funny, it was you who deleted it Yes, it was pretty bad, but, while I dislike doing someone's work for them, finding someone who REALLY needs help and is willing to engage in an ongoing conversation to get it, is the most fun I have in the forums.
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*blush* my reply had made it through and it was *wrong*, I'd only got half through removing the subqueries...... My eyes were just spinning when I was trying to work through it.
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I'd point and give you a Nelson "ha ha!" if I weren't so impressed with your fortitude. Or is it stubbornness? 
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*grin* that's probably it, my wife says I am pig headed.....
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Christian Graus wrote: my wife says I am pig headed.....
I take it, she likes pork?
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Two years ago, I posted SQL Server Performance Impacted by New Features[^] I've seen bad SQL many times, but that was the worst I've encountered. It was the first time I'd ever seen when using TOP "n" increased the time to get a response. If the question was deleted, how could you post a solution?
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I was typing a solution when it was deleted.
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What I hate is that is the worst SQL you've ever seen. 
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LOL - I'm not claiming that I've not seen other SQL that was close to as bad, but this was pretty grim. He never got back to me, either.
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Global Warming scientists stuck in Antarctica because of thicker than expected ice!
See Here[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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There is no such thing as a 'global warming scientist'. The story does not even say they are climate scientists.
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Well, the expedition's purpose is:
Quote: The goal of the modern day Australasian Antarctic Expedition is to repeat many of the original measurements and studies of the Mawson expedition to see how facets of the environment have changed over the past century.
So, it does seem a touch ironic. Proof of nothing though (save the weather in the Antarctic is unpredictable), especially not proof of the denier message.
Looking at the "science leaders" of the expedition, it seems they have quite a wide range[^] of studies: invertebrates to tree rings, ornithology to climate modelling. Too bad they couldn't complete the mission (this time anyway, I'm hoping they'll try again).
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TTFN - Kent
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Well, it's still a long bow to draw from that statement to 'global warming scientists', especially given that, as you say, there's a wide range of disciplines represented.
Kent Sharkey wrote: especially not proof of the denier message.
To the denier, EVERYTHING is proof of the denier message.
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Truth, and
Christian Graus wrote:
To the denier, EVERYTHING is proof of the denier message.
sadly, very true.
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TTFN - Kent
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The closed loops of circular logic and ignorance are fascinating, if it's 9/11, JFK or AGW really makes no difference.
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