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Hi Folks,
First of all, kudos to all codeproject authors, especially to authors whom I follow. You've been all an inspiration to everyone 
I just got a quick question. I've been here for about a year and 9 mos. I've won a few article contest before but up until now I'm not sure how really the system selects the winner. I know about the voting system but I noticed how it is politically driven. I mean if you are a popular author and got many friends, regardless of article content, views and downloads, you will win.
Is it only me who noticed it?
My real question is how the voting get's validated? Aside from votes, does content, views, downloads help on winning?
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That goes for politics too, yet I don't hear the same request there
Anything beyond the popular vote would be the editors' preference. So no, views only help if they create more votes.
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Usually Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: if you are a popular author
it's because you write good articles. I don't think that a poor article written by a big name would get voted more than a good article from a new member - you said that you won a few article contests before while still not being a popular author so you should know first hand that the system more or less works.
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Well perhaps there were no entry for popular authors when i won the competition. 
Buy yeah, what you said made sense. You are recognize and popular because they write good articles.
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I am voting for the best articles, but popular writers have often great articles. Maybe thats why they are so popular?
Sounds like an another henn egg paradoxon 
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: I noticed how it is politically driven. I mean if you are a popular author and got many friends, regardless of article content, views and downloads, you will win.
Do you have any real evidence to support these claims ?
I believe that, in general, this community has a high degree of integrity, and that voting is being done based on perceived technical quality, and educational value.
There are some outstanding technical minds here, who consistently deliver very high quality articles, qa solutions, and forum posts: no surprise they often win the contests, and that they do, indeed, develop a "following."
Voting may also reflect the relevance of article content to current concerns of members.
In other words, it's just like real-life, here.
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I don't think winning has much to do with author popularity. I've posted a number of articles that I didn't win anything for, and I'm the most popular author here (you should take that statement with a huge grain of 250-million-year-old salt).
I do have to admit that I'm kinda disappointed my SQLXAgent stuff didn't get more than a cursory head-nod of recognition. That was a lot of work. Ah well, what can ya do. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 13-Mar-18 8:04am.
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Quote: you should take that statement with a huge grain of about to expire 250-million-year-old salt
FFY.
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Noted, but who are you? :p
I had a few articles that I put a lot of effort and hard work too that didnt win. But as you said.. what we can do?
Anyway I’m just asking a question.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: Noted, but who are you? :p
You ain't from around here, are ya... 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I wonder if this has anything to do with your "everything else" article not being in the top three? 
People vote for their own reasons: generally I think it's for "good articles" - which means the ones that interest them, or helped them with a problem most. That doesn't mean "all the others are rubbish" it just means "these three are more useful to a general cross section of the voting members"
Except for "interview question and answer" articles though - they seem to get far too many votes for the piles of steaming doo-doo they are.
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No. This has nothing to do with my current article in the contest. fyi my article was added 2 days after they were listed and im 6 votes down before my article was added. So its expected that I will not be in the top 3  .
This just what i noticed even before. I have a few well written articles (put alot of effor in it) before that didn’t win. But that’s okay. Im just asking if they’re a sort of validation aside voting.
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I'd think that one method to ensure you don't get any vote is to show you're here for the reputation points.
But maybe that's just me; I don't play these "social" games. I only upvote great content to let authors know their contributions are appreciated, not to help them "win" some virtual badge of honor you can't exchange for a cup of coffee.
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I was at Whole Foods today and saw a container of salt with this label:
“Created in primordial seas over 250 million years ago.”
Right underneath that label was an electronic label that read:
“Best if used by 4/20/2019”
WTF!? Should I be pissed because all of containers of 250 million year old salt expire next year, or that it would probably still be good if they left it where they found it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The salt is fine. It's the packaging you have to worry about.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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What I dislike is that the release of all this salt that has been laying safely hidden all these millenia is now raising the salinity of the oceans and causing the polar ice caps to melt.
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Is he still alive? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Right here! 
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Sorry. can't keep up with all your aliases.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Most people manage to.
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I hate to deflate your ego, but I feel I have more important stuff to do... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Hey, you asked!
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Should've been obvious considering his choice of OCD.
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