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Hello
I am having some members who sometime just post a "My vote of n" (n being a number) with nothing else.
For example I have a "My vote of 1" here A USB Library to Detect USB Devices[^] from Lavrekho.
I have another one "My vote of 5".
If I look at Lavrekho's messages, he is only posting and probably voting of 1 to several of us, see below.
Is this a bug?
Thank you very much, Regards, Steph.
My vote of 1 [^]
by Lavrekho at 20:56 16 Oct '12
Article "A USB Library to detect USB devices" (Article)
My vote of 1 [^]
by Lavrekho at 14:29 17 Aug '12
Article "Firewall using Vista's Windows Filtering Platform APIs" (Article)
My vote of 1 [^]
by Lavrekho at 13:20 21 Aug '11
.NET Remoting Message Redirection Channel Sinks (Article) Score: 5.00 (1 vote).
My vote of 1 [^]
by Lavrekho at 18:39 23 Jun '09
How to create crystal reports in .net (Article) Score: 1.00 (1 vote).
My vote of 1 [^]
by Lavrekho at 11:25 2 Jan '09
How to create Control Array in C# (Article) Score: 1.00 (1 vote).
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slelong wrote: Is this a bug?
No, it is just that some people, for reasons of their own, do not bother to leave useful comments when they vote. You can reply to them and ask for feedback, but in general it is best just to ignore it.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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A vote of 1 on an article requires a comment to explain your vote. Lavrekho has posted a comment of "-" to circumvent this.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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On each comment you can use the "Report" dropdown (lower right of the message) to mark it as abuse. Enough votes and it will be nuked, as will the vote.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi
Thanks to you all!
Regards, Stephane.
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How hard would it be to ping a user's IP address when they are creating an account and have it use that location's country as the default country setting? It seems most people use USA without realizing it. Also, why is CP's default USA instead of Canada, eh?
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hostip.info[^] seems to work pretty well, and they provide the data in a MySQL script[^] so you can use it without hitting their servers.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think the best default is ... use void.
Automatically flagging may be perceived intrusive by some users, especially if it happens without them realizing it.
For a few of us, this comes on top of the problem of the definition of "country" : Country you are working in, country you are from, or country you just happen to be... the automatically flagging could be as wrong as any arbitrary flag.
So leave it to void by default, and let people who wants it modify it in their settings.
~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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The country you happened to be in might be a problem for Europeans who travel a lot. Otherwise, put the country where your ass sits in on most days. 
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Not only using void as default.
void as default + not being able to end the registration without a valid entry.
It could end with people lying, but once you must search one... why don't search the correct one?
Regards.
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Doing so is easy. Having accurate data is hard.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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What about void as default + not being able to end the registration without a valid entry?
It could end with people lying, but once you must search one... why don't search the correct one?
I think that would drop the number of "plz", "urgentz" and "fully wrong spelling" USA-Members
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: "fully wrong spelling" USA-Members
There is no other type of US member.
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Because the value returned is not always accurate - it depends on the ISP who allocates the IP address. Most geolocation from IP services will return a country, but (certainly in my case) if can be hundreds of miles out - it depends on which IP addresses were available when my router connected to the ISP which one of their pool I get. I am in Wales, but I have had geolocations for Germany, France, or -worse- England...
And of course, if a proxy is used, then it could be anywhere!
BTW: I just checked, and no location is available for me today - but the consensus is I might be in Amsterdam. Oops! 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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OriginalGriff wrote: or -worse- England...
What, our sheep not good enough for you, boyo? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Also, why is CP's default USA
Because they assume that anyone who cannot be bothered selecting a country must assume that it is obvious where they are, because they cannot conceive of any other country, so therefore are most likely American.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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You know them's is fightin' words...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When log in first time,
I can vote in survey
Next day I log in,
and vote
it will allow voting
and also increase 5 points.
means every day i can vote in same survey!!!
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Isn't life beautiful ? You've just found out how to increase reputations for free. 
~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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I just checked it,
and it worked 
so, I feel that I should be shared with site admin.
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You did well, and this will be addressed. Forget my pointless humor.
~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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Often, when commenting on Q&A posts, we ask the poster to edit their question and add more information. However, there is no "Edit" button on the page, and I suspect many people do not understand what "Improve question" means. Could it be changed from "Improve" to "Edit", which may be clearer for those for whom English is not their first language?
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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The wording was chosen deliberately. It's not meant to be clicked jsut to edit, it's meant to be used to Improve. It's an invitation to make it better. Those that don't understand the term "improve" are best not clicking the button. Those that posted a question and are looking for the button to allow them to update their question and who don't understand the term "improve" are, unfortunately, left in the lurch.
However, the value of the message to the vast majority who understand the term outweighs the minority of users THAT are inconvenienced.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Fair enough.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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