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*respectfully tips hat*
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: You'll find that the it is not just the certificate, it is also the very personal way in which it's delivered thar really makes it an experience you'll never forget.
I agree totally.
For someone like me in India, to get a letter from Canada itself is exciting.
However, please do see my reply to Richard in the same thread.
A small souvenir would add an additional kick factor that I would really really be proud off.
Its like how we collect bubblegum cards or matchbox cars or something similar - but it would indeed act as a very nice motivator and reminder of the award.
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It's not the letter that's exciting, it's the mankini.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Abhinav S wrote: get a letter from Canada itself is exciting.
Possibly the first time in postal history that anyone has said anything like this about Canada. 
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We were hoping the certificate would be something that you'd be proud to display in your office. However, I'll check to see what we have from conference give-aways 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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May I suggest "The Code Project Commemorative Pocket Lint"?
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Chris Maunder wrote: We were hoping the certificate would be something that you'd be proud to display in your office.
No doubt about it. Certificates are invaluable. Thanks for it.
Abhinav kind of clarified what our point of view was and we totally respect Pete's thought too. We are all good on whatever you guys decide is best for CP. We will support the same.
Chris Maunder wrote: However, I'll check to see what we have from conference give-aways
Thanks again.
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When this is sent out, it includes the spam that has been removed. If a message has been removed with no replies, it shouldn't be in the newsletter.
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You're absolutely correct.
I'll get that fixed tonight or tomorrow.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Cheers, but what are you doing working on a Sunday?
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It's Sunday? Again??
Sheesh.
(anyway, all fixed)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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There might be more, but one thing I am sure Chris must be looking into must be CP MVP 2013 list! Running more than a week late now...
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For future reference - the MVP list typically comes out somewhere between the 7th and 9th of January, so it's not running late.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: the MVP list typically comes out somewhere between the 7th and 9th of January, so it's not running late.
Is so? My bad then! 
I was under the assumption that it got late last time because of some reason and this year because of other.
Thanks for sharing the info.
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Part of what Chris and team does is check the validity of the awards. This takes time. A few years ago, there were complaints about some of the MVP awards, so Chris (as is his wont) bends over backwards to make sure that things are kosher, and that the community is happy.
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Got that! 
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My points got down two times. I am not sure what is happening. There is no negative ranking then also there is sudden drop of 2000 points before few days and now again drop of 250 points. 
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Well, the message by Chris answers the question in some way, but in fact the rep points are different from what they should be. For example the author rep points are lower than the number of downloads in some cases, wich is hardly possible, because you also get points for publishing articles/bookmarks/upvoting and you don´t lose so many points due to downvoting. So if the raw data is correct, as Chris says, there´s still a bug in the system!
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My points were upped since last night, not as much as I lost the last time. But seeing Chris's post makes it reassuring.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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Hey Chris,
I know that there was a lot of discussion about rep points and stuff already, and I really don´t want to complain but your message sounds like everything is okay with the rep points now, so I´ve got a little question:
When you look at my articles you can see that one of them has been downloaded over 11,000 times .. together with the points for bookmarks and other stuff and to points from the other article, this should add up to at least more than 15,000 points or so .. But when I look my profile I can only see 8,000 points. I know that you can loose points due to downvoting and so on, but I don´t think that I lost so many
So my question is, if both the raw data and the points are accurate, how can you explain this huge gap between the two values? Any ideas?
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I am also facing the same issue.Total downloads are more than 7K but my points for article section is less than 6K.
I understand there are some things are going on to fix this, but we will be glad if we should have come up with different strategy for reputation points
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I will admit you had me a bit concerned for a moment. I dug into the data and found that, of your downloads, a good number were repeated downloads.
Rep points for downloads represent unique downloads, so you get the points the first time a given member downloads a file, but not for subsequent times they download that file.
I'll update the notes on reputation events to make this clear.
Thanks for pointing this out - it gave me an excuse to dive in again and double check a few things.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My reputation points still continues to fall.
“Milletler birleşince refaha, ayrılınca da fakru zarurete düçar olurlar”
Nuri Demirağ, 1954
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Read Chris' post above...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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