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OriginalGriff and I have talked about this before. His answer is pretty good:
"We are more than willing to help those that are stuck: but that doesn't mean that we are here to do it all for you! We can't do all the work, it wouldn't be at all fair for us to do it all for you.
So we need you to do the work, and we will help you when you get stuck. That doesn't mean we will give you a step by step solution you can hand in! Start by explaining where you are at the moment, and what the next step in the process is. Then tell us what you have tried to get that next step working, and what happened when you did."
But since this isn't really a solution, but an offering for the user to revisit their thought process, this is best posted as a comment.
Also, if in a lot of these cases, these users don't seem to re-think anything, and the question doesn't get answered, just report the question and it will be removed in time.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
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Just something for you to check into:
So just after I replied to you I got hit again. Since it was -16, you may wish to check if was the same user, and if so, how they can do it twice to the same Answer posting.
Other than that, I'll try to take both of the above into consideration. A boilerplate is really useful - can be more detailed without burden, and put in as a comment (although I'll never reach 2x107 points that way*).
* . . . to reach for the stars when your arms are too weary, . . . to dream the impossible dream.
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What kind of poor nature are you? Whining about -16 and not mention the +40 which are most probably not earned?
modified 25-Jan-21 21:01pm.
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I'm not sure about the time markings on the Reputation, but I opened the question so I could look at the votes before closing it again. Two separate, high-level members downvoted your answer.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean Ewington wrote: Two separate, high-level members downvoted your answer
As Kurt Vonnegutt put it "and so it goes".
At least the voting still is limited to one-to-one (the useful reason to reopen it and check).
Thanks for making sure things keep rolling along.
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Why do you worry about points?
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Because they're there?
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The anchor text contents are "Download latest Repository Archive" and "Download local copy", the referenced content is
{
"message": "Not Found",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest"
}
Are there some requirements I missed and should meet to resolve it? It is possible to comment out the links manually from a CodeProject post and rely on explicitly written links, but next push of the content to GitHub will restore them.
All for all, this GitHub-CodeProject integration looks impressive.
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Which article is this? We'll dig in and check
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This is the second time I saw it. The first case was here: State Machine Framework in C, but now this problem is fixed, as I thought, by the author himself.
Later, I decided to try it out myself, as I had a suitable GitHub project, as a way to integrate all existing and future CodeProject publications on this project. I reproduced this problem on the project I posted: Microtonal Fabric. At the moment of writing, those two links are manually removed by editing the CodeProject article, but, naturally, they will appear again on the push from GitHub.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
—SASergey A Kryukov
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When I mouse over the reaction icon in my post below, I can see who the reactor was!
EDIT: It works even if the post wasn't mine.
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Yes you can.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think we can can consider that a vaccine against drive-by reactions.
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One or two shots?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Depends upon who's being designated as the driver, doesn't it? (and I get a double entendre out of it, too!)
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Two to the chest and one to the head.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Maybe I just missed it, but how do I undo a reaction?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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You are right... you can recast it, but not undo it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That will be added. I'm just working on the UI. The plumbing is in place but I preferred to have you lot take it for a test run before I added brakes and airbags. Far more exciting that way.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Points are in place.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Was that the intention? Upvoting currently gives an Organizer point, and Participant points were hard to earn until now.
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It is. You aren't so much organising [by a vote], as much as you are providing a reaction that could be used in lieu of a post. It's response from you to the poster, rather than a score meant to provide an objective ranking of an item.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Posting a message in a general discussion forum earns a Debator point, so maybe it should depend on which forum. Just trying to make things difficult. 
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and a kind of Dejà vóu at the same time  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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