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Guys, I am at the top of the QA Experts list right now and I don't think I've answered enough to be there. This has prompted me to take a look at my reputation (something I don't like doing) and I see that there are multiple entries for the same answer - answers where the server reported it was unsuccessful posting the answer, and yet my answer was there.
Could you please remove the rogue points from my account please? They haven't been earned and I don't want this to overshadow the sterling work that others are doing answering questions in there. If I don't deserve to appear in the list because of legitimate replies, then I shouldn't be there.
Hmmm. It seems that this is one case where I do care about the points. Who knew that too many points would be the thing that upset me?
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You are that type of guy who hands the extra money back when the change is not correct, aren't you ? 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Yup. I've even gone back to a shop to return a packet of biscuits that had been packed into my bag but obviously belonged to the person who'd been at the till before me. I hadn't paid for them so they weren't mine.
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If I'd go back into a shop to return an unpaid item packed into my bag, they would put me in jail thinking I had stolen it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Same here, the points capture system seems to be a little wayward at the moment.
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Just checked my recent points list and can confirm the same. One answer posted just once and the points registered 8 times.
The good news however is that email notification are coming through really fast now. Keep up the good work and all that.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I have discovered how the people in Q&A who are amassing ridiculous points per question answered are doing it.
They are simply hitting the Submit Solution button over and over again when submitting an answer. The answer only gets posted once, but they get +10 rep points for each click. I just tried it on this[^] question and was able to garner 48 +10 rep point records.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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That's a great spot but I'm not sure it's the whole answer. I answered an old question of Nagy's from October I think on the unanswered C++ list and got 200 points for it a couple of days ago. No idea why and I certainly didn't hit Submit more than once. Anyway I enjoyed my brief forray onto the CP most useful person list 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I wonder if the same happy-clickey-finger issue happens on the voting buttons as well, in which case you could get a bunch of upvotes with only the one vote appearing on the answer.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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If so they you should just have recieved a neat pile of votes for your last post here courtesy of the Faithfull Fast Finger(tm)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Just the 1 upvote there.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Then the mystery deepens, or the Finger's just not up to job. Either way I can only suggest that Mr Graus perhaps do some micro surgery on Bob's brain to go after a particular incident like the one I mentioned or your trial and see what happened. If I have to sacrifice a couple of hundred points for the greater good and all that I'm sure I'll get over it 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Marcus Kramer wrote: I wonder if the same happy-clickey-finger issue happens on the voting buttons as wel
Nopes. I recently observed that the answer acceptance by a high rep is also multiple of 25 and not just 25 that we generally see in our history (because of low rep guys asking and marking it solved.) Saying this, just like other places, for platinum member marking it solved has a multipler 8 to it leading to 200 points in a go.
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What about when just posting regular messages? Consider this a test of that.
[EDIT]Nope.[/EDIT]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Maybe they are using JavaScript to automate the task?
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I attempted to do this with a short comment, but there is no way I can click more than once before the comment is submitted and the button is "gone".
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I attempted to do this while editing this[^] question. It's funny, I clicked like a crazy person on that Submit button, but only two of the clicks resulted in points, yet it says "v16" next to the edit information...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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thats strange.. it was only the rep points having trouble before but after todays update something really went wrong... now it spread in other forums too..
Jibesh V P
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I can confirm this. Checked it on one of the answer.
And I see many people doing this [/or probably happening automatically as the above post says] (checked a few from 'Top Experts in 24hrs' list).
..Go Green..
modified 7-Feb-13 7:19am.
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Steps to reproduce:
0. Login and go to article
1. Click "Update your article"
2. Article Submission Wizard shown with "Enter your article's title here"
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Given that it might be possible to exclude web crawlers and search bots completely from indexing articles but that we obviously don't want to. Is it possible, while letting them in not to count them towards article view counts.
While I find it difficult although not impossible to believe that 2000 real people might choose to read 'some stuff what I wrote' I don't find it believable that none of them hated it enough to say so. It would be nice to be proved wrong.
Clearly this can't be done retrospectively which might cause some comparability issues but I still think it would be an improvement.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Hi
Please provide some option where people who are down voting some of the questions can give the reason for that.. so that it will be easy to know that what is wrong in our question..if someone is not providing any reason please don't allow them to down vote..
Hope you will think over it..
Thank you
Snehasish Nandy
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This has been discussed many times. Potentially one of three things could happen.
- People will stop downvoting bad questions because there will be a temptation for people to take up revenge voting.
- People will create sockpuppet accounts specifically downvote questions
- People will just enter meaningless rubbish like asa;sldifj as the reason
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But at least the people who are serious about this forum and take things seriously they will give proper comments..else it's difficult for beginners to know how to put up the questions or where they went wrong..
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The people who are serious will give you comments anyway. If I downvote you because I think your question is poor, I'll tell you. Depending on how well I understood the question, I may even offer pointers on how to improve it.
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