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Oops!! sorry.
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You are most welcome 
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Now there's a good nice civil conversation  
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libneniyye laffo 3a ba3ed :p
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You are welcome to join the club 
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I would think the opposite would happen
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| I would suggest to add a filter by location when searching for members Sara, CAPM
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yeah it would be very helpful
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It is happening again here.
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| Try it without the dash ------------------------------------
I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Hey it works just like MSN
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Yeah, In preview it's working & not in the post. please take a look in my lounge posts(recent), let me know am i miss anything? thanks
thatrajamodified on Friday, February 12, 2010 4:54 AM
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thatraja wrote: Yeah, In preview it's working & not in the post
me too
thatraja wrote: please take a look in my lounge posts(1st page)
After an hour -or less- it will not be first page anymore 
[Edit]Try them without the dash [/Edit]modified on Friday, February 12, 2010 4:40 AM
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thanks
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| Hey, I told him that! ------------------------------------
I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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| I'll tweak the pattern matching again. Some cleanup I did yesterday has removed some of the previous options, plus there is an end-of-string error on a couple of the smileys I didn't catch. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well, I was just browing through a few articles on CodeProject. I don't exactly remember which ones, but some of them were really good! They were worth reading and learning from.
However, I saw something which was really awkward. One of the articles had tons of votes of fives and fours, and a vote of one and two. After scrolling down to the bottom, the voters who voted one or two did not specify there reason for the low vote.
What I want to know is why exactly would anyone vote an article "1" (without any reason), when tons of people are voting the same article "5."
I just wanted this to be brought to attention.
*DISCLAIMER: I am not saying this because it happened to my article; I am saying this because this is slight fishy. Why is an article voted 1, when like 20 people vote it 5. Even if you want to vote 1, you should give a reason, so that the author can improve himself.
Thanks,
Harsimran Singh1) The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. - Ted Nelson
2) Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? - Clifford Stoll
3) The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney J. Harris
(Computer code: 00001111 - translation: Hello! :P )
REMEMBER:
"Computers are made for us, we are not made for th
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This is a widespread problem at Code Project with no clear solution. Of course, people have varied motivations (finding out what they are would be like asking why "some people murder others when most other people don't murder them"). Here are what I expect to be some common reasons:
1) The voter wanted to see something in the article that wasn't there, and voted entirely based on the lack of that one small item.
-For example, somebody down-voted one of my articles because he thought I should have graphs and metrics and such.
2) The voter took a quick glance at the article and voted based on some immediate instinct (like "the article seems too long").
3) Some people have huge egos and, when they see something they interpret as a flaw (perhaps a simple typo), they will down vote it to attain a sense of power and worth.
4) Rival authors that want their article to be rated higher than yours.
5) Authors that just want all other articles to less popular than theirs (fame cravers).
6) Maybe you pissed them off by commenting on some forum post, so they are relaliating by voting your article down.
The list goes on and on... some people just do this. Though, the majority of votes will usually drown out these minority votes. Still, it would be nice if a coherent response was required for 1-voters, rather than those who just post "-" as their message body when they 1-vote. I think those posts can be reported as abuse and, if they get deleted, the 1-vote will also be removed from the article... not sure about that though.
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I don't think it is as bad as you make it sound. See my message below.
 Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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I basically just listed the motivations of why people 1-vote. I don't think the problem is too terrible (though it is common to most every article, so it is "widespread", as I say). See the bottom of MY message above, which includes some of the balances you speak of in your below message.
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Yes I understand that, however the negatives took most of your text, and a reader with a slightly negative mindset would pick up all the reasons why such injustice may be committed, and end up with an even more negative mindset. I'm more of a positive thinker, so I felt a need to compensate and stress the positive things in this community; and doing so I probably illustrated my vote-balancing point myself).
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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yes, there is an occasional down-vote amidst a lot of high votes, often for no apparent reason. Which always is a pity, and may come as a shock to novices, especially on a new article, when there aren't many high votes yet.
But then one of many things tends to happen:
- people start to add high votes, even more so than they would have done if no low-vote were present;
- if the explanatory message seems inappropriate, people start to click "vote to remove"; when a sufficient number of people do this, the message holding the low vote gets automatically removed, and so does the associated vote.
- if the low-voter is recognized as a repeat offender, he will be signaled in the "suggestions and bugs" forum, possibly resulting in a lot or even all of his messages and votes being removed.
So in all the community tends to take care of it, with some delay.
The CP voting system itself also offers some protection as it uses weighted voting; new members have a vote weight of 1, silver/gold/platinum members have a vote weight of 2/4/8, and we can safely assume those aren't the ones casting malicious votes; so even if a moron votes you a 1, the next gold member voting you 5 brings your average up to (1+4*5)/(1+4) = 4.2
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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I think aspdotnetdev hit the nail on the head. Most of the people that do it are ding it maliciously. Sure, it's nice that you're a "positive thinker", but the reality is that most of the 1/2 votes are from people that you've managed to annoy/upset/piss off in some way. In fact, someone yesterday stated that "3 is the new 1", and I think he's right. voting a 3 doesn't require you to say why you voted a 3, but it's still an effective way to exact retribution on an article.
I still think numeric voting should be changed to "Is Useful", and maybe even a series of checkboxes that a user can click about an article to generate an overall "score":
Useful (the code or technique was used in my code)
Accurate (the description of the technique is accurate and reflects accepted practices as of the writing of the article)
Thorough (the code and technique are thoroughly discussed and presented in a meaningful manner)
Formatting (the article is formatted correct and adheres to the CP style)
Bookmarked (automatically checked if the user bookmarks the article)
Maybe the article's score could be calculated using the number of views compared to the number of users who marked those checkboxes.
Of course, membership status might play a big part in calculating the overall article metrics.
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Of course, there's no real way to bring current articles from the current voting system to the one I propose....45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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modified on Friday, February 12, 2010 7:40 AM
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