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I think a comment was pointless.
Vote 1 and leave a "" comment.
The only thing it did do was leave a calling card, like "Sandeep Mewara Voted You Down, Like a Dog, Go get him!"
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Dalek Dave wrote: The only thing it did do was leave a calling card, like "Sandeep Mewara Voted You Down, Like a Dog, Go get him!"
Agreed! But, I guess that's good, in a way, as I specified that I downvoted an answer because it was real bad!
Having mandatory comments, puts a check on downvoting. Anyone cannot just vote down everytime with empty or junk comment. People can question and know the reason. We have seen lots of time someone downvotes for wrong reason - others come to know from the reason provided and try to make things right.
If there is no check, then anyone can just go ahead and downvote without any fear or just for fun. Our first motive should be to provide a check and have some control on aggresive & meaningless downvoting. Mandatory comments is surely one of the way.
We can control someone who downvotes with wrong comments all the time but we cannot control downvotes if there are no checks at all.
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Chris Maunder wrote: We'll see. Maybe this is a Very Bad Thing.
My opinion - Yes, not good.
Chris Maunder wrote: Maybe we put comments back on answers, but not questions.
Fair enough! What I have observed is, a reason should be provided for downvoting an answer. Will wait for this option to be picked and implemented.
UPDATE: BTW, now I know, I have one more place to keep a watch when things change on this site - your personal message board. 
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We don't have comments in the forums, yet that's OK?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: We don't have comments in the forums, yet that's OK?
No. Not OK.
I usually visit ASP.NET forum. You can see almost every question is downvoted there and at times answers too. Since there is no comment kinda flow, people downvote at their will... Surely answers should have a reason for downvoing.
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You realise that leads to infinite recursion...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think you are right, there seems little point in lots of 1-votes each with (effectively) the same comment.
It's time for a new signature.
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Chris Maunder wrote: With the introduction of the comment requirement the number of votes fell dramatically
I am sure you were talking about 1-votes.
We can have comment just for 1-vote and not for all.
If you really want to stick with the no comments for voting thing, can you just provide an option to challenge the vote and get it fixed in case you don't see a reason for your answer to get down-voted. Something similar to 'Vote to remove message' concept? There are many trolls here already, you know that.
..Go Green..
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There's a spammer[^] in tham thar hills.
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The hounds have them.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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just got an XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: CP/i.ashx?channel=1&publisher=495& // FIX: Sorry, it's 495& and a lot more, not 4958
on LINQ forum, error text visible in main ad as well as little ad at left.
using FF3.6, being served by web22
consecutive CTRL/F5's load same page, with other, successful ads.
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Matthew and Steve have been puzzling over this one and our Monday release should fix this
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have seen it happen only once, so it will be nearly impossible for me to report success...
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I've got another one (in the aftermath of my latest T&T adventure); this time I took a screen shot and a source copy; I've mailed both of them to you.
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Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to upload the new code today. Too busy modernizing the Forums and changing...Just kidding!!
Tomorrow is looking saner for an upload.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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NP.
I can easily ignore the bad ad, it isn't harmful and very infrequent anyway.
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I just deleted few answers posted by this user.[^].
I guess, his action was reported earlier too (last week or so!)
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Well, I have just reported messages from this user[^], too. All of them also seems to be spam...
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Both dealt with - thanks!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That's OK. I'm just cleaning up the article and would have approved it anyway.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The lounge is a lot zippier again, and this mornings test shows the page is loading in approx 2.56 seconds (yesterday was 17s).
Thanks for fixing the issues. 
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Let's hope the servers didn't hear you say that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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ok i'll whisper this next bit then;
I notice you are linking your jquery source direct to Microsoft website, would it not be better to link this to CP servers in case the MS site went offline for any reason? It maybe doesn't but i would have thought you would want to keep external dependency minimised.
(http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js)
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