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I can't even find a survey to answer. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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they are plenty on the CP home page. 
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.4
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There are these:
Best C# article of May 2011
Best C++/MFC article of May 2011
Best VB.NET article of May 2011
Best overall article of May 2011
Best ASP.NET article of May 2011
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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The Daily News email is getting hung up in our mail server due to SPF failure. The following is the error message from the server:
Received-SPF: unknown (error in processing during lookup of domain of maillist.codeproject.com: Unknown mechanism found)
client-ip=65.39.148.44
Cheers,
Brett
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Thanks Brett - I'll get Vince on it as soon as he's in this morning.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This issue has popped up again with the Daily News of Thursday August 14 2011:
Received-SPF: unknown (error in processing during lookup of domain of maillist.codeproject.com: Unknown mechanism found)
client-ip=65.39.148.44
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Thanks Brett. We'll dig in, again, to see what the issue is.
[Edit: we've made a change whereby we're ditching our "reply to" address and just using a "from" address. This means it will be far less convenient for those who ignore our "do not reply, this is an unattended email box" message, but it will help those mail servers who ignore the "from" address and use the "reply to" address if it's present.
Vince did an SPF check against your servers and it all passed. Maybe this will help...]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I am unable to post answers. Every question I open, I get "Failed to find parent of requested item." in place of answer editor.
UPDATE 1: I tried to delete a question that needed to be, but it failed and I got 'Failed to find requested entry' error.
UPDATE 2: I tried to upvote a question. It took some time and the whole voting meter got vanished. Blank space instead of stars or bars.
[It was working for me some 10 hours back.]
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UPDATE 3: After some half an hour, now I see them as usual. Not sure what triggered early expereince, might be server load! CP Logs should help if it needs a look up.
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I've been giving the database an absolute pounding this weekend while I do some perf tuning. I'm not surprised there have been odd glitches.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Okie dokie. 
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I've noticed one of my articles has either the voting distribution wrong or the rating calculation.
My case: An IoC Container in 15 min[^]
It says 17 Fives and 3 Fours, that would be a rating of 4.85. Currently a 4.77 is shown. Actually it was 4.77 some days ago, it seemed weird to me, but paid no attention, but today I received a new vote, and the number didn't change.
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All votes are weighed by a factor depending on the appropriate rep component (Author for articles) of the voter.
For white/bronze/silver/gold/platinum the weights are either 1/1/2/4/8 or 1/2/4/8/16 , I'm not sure which (the latter applies to rep points, either one applies to article and message scoring). So a silver (or platinum?) Author voting your article a 5, would add 40 to the numerator and 8 to the denominator of your score, while adding only 1 to the vote count shown. Since you normally do know the votes but not their weights, you can't accurately calculate your score yourself.
Similar things apply to Q&A, T&T, and forum messages.
[NOTE] Text adapted as a reaction to Sandeep's posts below [/NOTE]
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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modified on Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:13 AM
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I didn't know that. Thanx!!!
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You're welcome.
I just located some of the official material on the subject here[^], it is reachable through the "Help!" menu.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.4
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Very nice!!! Thanx again mate!!
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Just a small correction Luc. Looks like you too are unaware of the weightage change for articles. Now, if you vote my article a 5, 80 would be added to my author score.
Details of proofexperiment here: Discussion with AspDotNetDev on the topic earlier[^]
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Thanks. I remember reading that thread, however I haven't seen it myself yet (never saw 80 points in one rep history line), so for the moment it feels more like a testimony, not a proof to me. Not that I am doubting your veracity, but it takes a while before I adapt to a new truth.
BTW: I do wish these things were clearly documented in the FAQ!
PS: I'll slightly adapt my earlier post.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.4
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Luc Pattyn wrote: however I haven't seen it myself yet (never saw 80 points in one rep history line)
Ditto!
Luc Pattyn wrote: so for the moment it feels more like a testimony, not a proof to me.
Well, if that is the case, let me vote one of your article and then may be testimony will be converted to proof.
Luc Pattyn wrote: Not that I am doubting your veracity, but it takes a while before I adapt to a new truth.
Same hold true for me... so all good. 
Luc Pattyn wrote: BTW: I do wish these things were clearly documented in the FAQ!
Hope Chris reading this.
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What the heck, my Sokoban article just jumped up by 80 Author points. 
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Now, I have a stronger testimony. AspDotNetDev and You now.
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Actually that thread was about rep points; the current thread is about article scoring, the weights used could be different. You need to perform another kind of experiment to start proving something here!
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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I agree. But, I wanted to correct your 40 points addition statment. 
BTW, just voted your puzzle article now... I found I missed voting that earlier. Please check.
Waiting for another testimony now.
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All taken care of.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.4
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Yeah!
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Luc Pattyn wrote: about article scoring, the weights used could be different
Now, we have another doubt with us as you pointed here.
Is it the weightage or the ratio that has been increased? I hope Chris shares the same with us.
Further, whatever change it is, it looks like the next rep. re-calc will boost few people by quite good number of points. (First it was old bookmarks and now this article upvote points.)
Let see which weekend thats going to happen.
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