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Hi
yesterday my article MVVM Pattern Made Simple[^] had 22 fives and 8 fours (total 30 votes). The average was given as 4.76 (even though the mathematical average would be 4.73).
Today someone added a "five" to me - I have 23 fives and 8 fours. Unexplicably my average for the article went down - it is now 4.66 (even though the mathematical average is 4.74).
Can you, please, verify you algorithms.
Thanks
Nick Polyak
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Voting is weighted, so higher status members have votes that count for more. That explains the deviation from the arithmetic averages.
But getting a 5 should never drop the score, so it may be a bug.
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"You have already voted..." comes after you actually voted for the survey.
For any survey, if user is already voted, he should not be allowed to vote again.
so, the message: "You have already voted..." should come before user is actually voting second time.
People may not remember whether he has already voted or not.
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Yes, it should, but I'm cheating. To remove the button for voting before you vote would mean a pre-emptive database check to see if you've voted. We'd have to do that for every visitor to the site, which is extra load that's unnecessary. Doing it the way we do it means the check is done on-demand.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Free Dating Sites[^]
I dont know how this dump could be a featured article on codeproject homepage.
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It's catering for our lonelier members. Don't they deserve love?
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OK - let's not get into the mankini thing again 
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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I never got into the mankini in the first place. Mine is not the body you want to see in a Mankini.
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Ah, come on - I'm sure you do yourself an injustice.
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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My wife told me this. 
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Slap her for me, will ya. Tell her I'm disgusted!
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Don't they deserve love?
Ah, sorry I forgot you for a moment. But do you really think that I don't care you?
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popchecker wrote: But do you really think that I don't care you?
I really don't care. I'll go home to the loving arms of my wife and my children tonight. 
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But everybody should have an alternate choice
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Judging by the votes and statistics it's quite popular with CPians.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: it's quite popular with CPians
Does it deserve that?
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popchecker wrote: Does it deserve that?
Why not? If people like an article and vote for it then who are we to demand its removal?
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: who are we to demand its removal?
I dont want to remove it. I ain't even down vote it. As a dutiful member of Codeproject community, I will honor every small contributions. I was just think about the average quality of the articles on this top-notch site.
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Sorry, I don't understand what you are complaining about.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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When i read that article, first came into my mind that it ain't have a quality to be a featured article on Codeproject. I didn't mean to remove or down rate the article. I just wanted to share my thoughts with you(May be you misunderstand me because I posted it in Site Bugs / Suggestions forum). But, you have a good point. So many people like it and naturally it is popular now. In that sense, it is okay. I agree with that 100%
modified 18-Nov-11 7:53am.
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Really? I look at its discussion forum and find it not as popular as it's statistic. Especially the topmost message.
Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary
Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos.
It's because English is my primary language, not my first language.
My first languages are C# and Java.
VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language.
Indonesian came as my third language.
My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done! 
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If you look at a number of those messages you will notice they are more about attacking the author and the article subject. Almost none of them offer a reasoned critique of either his article, in terms of structure and detail, or his project, in terms of technique, coding etc. The votes (and there are lots of positive ones) are what count more than the negative comments. And finally, I hold no brief for Sergio, I don't care much for him as a person, but this article has broken no rules that would merit its removal.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Articles are featured based on their score.
In this case some serious sand-bagging was found. And fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Jobless_IN_Melbourne's profile says "Member since Friday, November 18, 2011", but that members first article, Delegates and Events, what are they morons?, says "First Posted 17 Nov 2011". I wish I was impressive enough to have posted an article before I created my account. 
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Ahhh, the joys of international timezones.
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