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Shao Voon Wong wrote: The important thing is my articles got downvoted with no reason given.
No, it isn't! If they don't give a reason, then the downvotes are meaningless. If they explain why then you can change your article if their points are valid. But "anonymous downvotes" just mean "I don't like your profile picture" or whatever and mean nothing in themselves.
Don't worry about them - you get them. I get them, everybody gets them.
They only matter if you care about the rep points - and then the person downvoting is winning because he has achieved his aim of annoying you. IGnore it, and they will go away.
The system discards anomalous up- and down- votes when working out the average article score anyway! So if you write a good article and get 20 * 5's, a couple of 1's will be thrown away as they don't match the pattern.
For example, look at this one of mine: List<T> - Is it really as efficient as you probably think?[^]
It has 112 votes, of which the system has discounted 20 - 18 * 1 and 2 * 2, and only counted the 3's, 4's, and 5's - hover your mouse over the score at the top and you'll see what I mean.
And if the system insists you comment on a vote, then you get a whole load of useless "szszszszsz", or "fdgdfdgdfdg" comments which are no use either!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It works well when you have 20+ votes. But for articles that don't have many views, and are written by relatively unknown authors, often you don't see more than 5-6 votes. So even 2 malicious 1s can damage their score meaning people may not even read the article thinking it's crappy. Potential employers may look at it and feel that the author wrote a sub-par article. So there's a lot of damage potential there.
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Most of my articles have less than 10 votes, so 1 downvote is high on weightage. If I am not wrong, each user can vote more than once on a article.
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Shao Voon Wong wrote: If I am not wrong, each user can vote more than once on a article.
You are wrong  If you already voted an article, and issue a new vote later, your previous vote will be replaced by the new one.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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You should send a private email to Chris and he will help you.
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This was some blatant targeting though.
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Hence my suggestion above.
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Shao Voon Wong wrote: I deleted all my articles to protect their ratings
There is an obvious flaw in this logic.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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My articles are still available and searchable on CP except they are shown deleted at the top and not shown on my profile and I can still update them and I will.
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Until google has reindexed codeproject that is.
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Wow, someone really went after you there!
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Far better to let us fix the issue properly than simply delete your articles, but as always this is your choice.
We've identified the user downvoting the articles and have taken steps to fix the situation.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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These two questions:
C program that gives me the date after n days[^]
Date after n days without using functions[^]
are both the same question (actually from the same user under two memberships, see the comments  ).
In any case, there is noteworthy discussion in both places.
Is there a standard/suggested way to link the two together so that all of the discussion is captured and cross-referenced?
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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The Date after n days without using functions[^] was closed as a repost/duplicate.
(When I marked it as such, I forgot about the potential of it automatically getting closed...  )
The comments/discussion there were not captured and a lot of the information in solving the issue was on that question.
So, my question still stands on how to keep all of the context of the complete discussion.
Any suggestions?
Is there (should there be) a standard way to ensure the relevant discussion is preserved?
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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In the QA the "Edited" time stamp, next to the "Posted" time stamp, (at the bottom of the Question) seems to track any change at all to the entire QA item, not just changes to the actual question.
For example, adding a Solution updates the Edited time stamp.
Its placement between the Posted time stamp and the version indication implies that this is when the Question itself was last edited.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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The "latest articles" section is completely empty for me.
Also the site overall seems a bit slow today.
Web02 server.
Tom
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Looks like a database issue combined with some bad caching logic. Fixing...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Articles are back
And site speed seems normal again as well
So all is back to normal in the land of CP
Tom
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Home page is still empty for me, 10:50 AM eastern time. Also forum posting is slow, specially new posts or edits. Loading is reasonably fast.
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I posted a tip in article section. There was little spell mistake, i updated the article and reposted it. I am unable to login and i received mail with following content
Your account at CodeProject has been reported as The member is a spammer 10 times and is now deactivated.
So how do i recover my account ?
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That message says, you posted an 'article' that actually was a spam...We are not tolerate spamming here...So you can not re-open your account, but you can open a new one and start a fresh life - free of spam...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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He didn't spam he made a spelling mistake. We've all done it. You know when you try to write Vbasic but actually write Viagra.
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What Vbasic is? 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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For Pompey, it has the same effect as the tablet he referred to.
This space for rent
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Is that the secret of VB? Just that it doesn't work for everyone 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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