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If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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I'd prefer to have only the option to up-vote/recommend articles. The articles quality then could be measured in up-votes / divided by article views. Okay, this would be a rather small value has few readers vote, so it would have to be multiplied with a well-chosen factor.
Giving more options creates a sort teacher/pupil relationship between voters and article writer. However, it is not known in any way that a specific article reader has the knowledge and is able to distinguish between e.g. a good and a great article as this depends very much on his perspective.
Any reader has the option to write his criticism in form of a message - and this is preferable to voting as then the reader eventually adds to the quality of the topic (Even if he says he found a better work on the topic at xyz). Also the voter gives a hint about his level of professionalism and maturity on the topic only when writing a comment.
modified on Monday, July 25, 2011 12:01 PM
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Doc Lobster wrote: I'd prefer to have only the option to up-vote/recommend articles. The articles
quality then could be measured in up-votes/article views. Okay, this would be a
rather small value has few readers vote, so it would have to be multiplied with
a well-chosen factor.
Excellent suggestion! 
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Thanks, Nish 
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For "work" there should be a scale (1-5 works fine). That would include articles, tips and maybe answers to questions. In those cases I can see wanting to vote somewhere in the middle, though I almost never vote 3.
For comments and posts in the lounge, I think a simple up vote and a vote to remove/report to the authorities button would do the trick.
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Voting in the lounge is typically a "1 or 5 with option remove" system anyway, so the question for the lounge would be "do we need a downvote"?
Maybe another survey 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Exactly my thought. I was just about to post a similar message but decided to +5 yours instead!
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Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan are in a boat in the Potomac, when suddenly the boat develops a leak. They have only one life preserver jacket.
Bill says: "Let's do the Democratic thing. Take a vote to see who gets the life preserver." They each write a name on a piece of paper and stuff it in a coffee can. Bush and Reagan get one vote each; Clinton gets six.
Old joke
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Would work even better if they were in boat in the Everglades and George W. Bush was among them. But then they might still be counting 
2b || !2b
W. Shakespeare
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Such an exciting topic... The other day I had a 3 day conversation on Code Project regarding the 'voting matter'.
The voting system is good as is... Unfortunatly you get one or two crackers that downvote every one else out of revenge. I'd say that there should be a system for that instances that pick it up and eliminate it. When making statements that are biased you are bound to step on someones toes and that also leads to a bad vote. Other wise the voting is pretty good regarding pointing out the more correct answer.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Regarding your concern about voting down, you can always report the user and let the chosen ones to deal with it. There's always a reason behind every vote, either up or down-voting.
And by the way, I can't figure out your 5 cens here.
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thx for the advice, will look into it next time.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Pong D. Panda wrote: you can always report the user
how do you identify the user?
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it is always good to give options for Voting
There could be option of
- Poor
- Good
- Better
- Best
- Premium
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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It should be a two state scale:
- Broccoli for bad feeling / bad message...
- Bacon for good message...
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Hang on, Broccoli is deeeee-lish!
Howsabout Bacon Good, Brussels Sprouts bad?
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Some of us like Brussels sprouts.
Software Zen: delete this;
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one bacon for you!
Watched code never compiles.
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Brussels are great! Especially when home grown and lightly fried with bacon!
I would suggest "Bacon...<The T Word>" except my keyboard refuses to type it.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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An up/down pair with weighting.
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Chasing after points simply is the wrong motivation to write something and can have some very strange results. Especially when somebody disagrees, any reply or comment is far more informative than being downvoted. And for myself, I think it's a bit arrogant to constantly judge everything someone writes, as if my opinions were some kind of absolute measure.
Sorry, I understand the intention of course, but I don't really like what it makes some people do.
"Dark the dark side is. Very dark..." - Yoda
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"Shut up, Yoda, and just make yourself another toast." - Obi Wan Kenobi
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+5  . I would add something else here that many people only downvoted the comment but never stated why they did so. This is really unprofessional.
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There's a lot of valid reason where voting should be implemented, let's say work evaluation for instance. Or a graphical representation of voting for a survey, where comments cant be an option.
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Agreed, but then in a constructive way. Downvoting something without any comment is not helpful. As long as downvotes are annonymous there also will be people who downvote everything somebody wrote as 'revenge' or whatever. This is hard to detect automatically and may very well put the value of an article's rating in question.
"Dark the dark side is. Very dark..." - Yoda
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"Shut up, Yoda, and just make yourself another toast." - Obi Wan Kenobi
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CDP1802 wrote: I think it's a bit arrogant to constantly judge everything someone writes
I was arrogant enough to give you a 5
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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