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Naveen wrote: I dont know how you decide a person to be code project MVP.
I heard something about it in the past, but not in detail. Heavily guarded secret by well armed CP hamsters who don't allow this to be known 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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If they did that though people might start abusing this, such as voting others down to help reduce the competition.
Regards,
--Perspx
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Perspx wrote: reduce the competition.
So do CP have a restriction in number of MVPS's ? I though all qualified persons will pass.
Also almost all the senior members in a forums are friends. So this type of abusing will be less ( There may be exceptions ). Also how much impact a down vote does on a persons scrore is unknow. What if they are not even considering down votes in this process.
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I don't know how it works. It just sounds like the system could be abused if MVP selection is based on total votes and everyone knows their total number of votes.
Regards,
--Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia
Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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I am sure their is an initial formula for getting the finalists, but Chris (and other CP admins) have the final say in the matters.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
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There supposedly is more to it than just the number of votes. Has something to do with article count as well.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Naveen wrote: Also almost all the senior members in a forums are friends
Not true. Most of us know each other through the forums only, and have never actually met. There are quite a few online friendships, but these go well beyond the MVPs. MVP status is usually awarded based on how much help you give, not how well we know Chris & co. - so, if you want to be an MVP take the time to help people in the different forums. Write some articles, but don't expect to become an MVP quickly - it takes time and dedication.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: if you want to be an MVP take the time to help people in the different forums. Write some articles, but don't expect to become an MVP quickly - it takes time and dedication.
Thanks...I understands the situation.
I usally answer the question in forum just because I like it.. Being an MVP is only second. Mostly I dont get much free time to spend in Codeproject.
I was just curious to know my rank. 
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Naveen wrote: Also almost all the senior members in a forums are friends.
I agree with Pete...most of the people here (whether they are senior or not) know each other only in an online fashion. While there are a handful of members that have met each other, I think that is in the minority and only happens occasionaly.
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MVP status is based on votes for both articles and messages. As others have said, enabling others to view a list of where everyone is at in the rankings will encourage malicious voting.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ok. I never thought of it..
How ever I hope, there will not be any harm in showing last years status of each person under there profiles 
modified on Sunday, August 24, 2008 3:37 AM
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Glad to see my article is now public
I have a tendency to correct spelling mistakes etc. in my older articles after they have been published (Know that new articles aren't marked as updated the first week). This causes the old article to jump up as being updated, eventhough it really doesn't bring anything new to the table. Would be nice with a check-box "Minor update, don't publish it as updated".
-Rolf
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Snakefoot wrote: Would be nice with a check-box "Minor update,
There already is such a box.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes I can see that now. It would be more intuitive that the check box was placed near the "Submit"-button. But now I know it is there
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I thought you fixed this at one time, but the tooltips on the message smileys don't show. FF 2.0.0.9, XP.
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fixed in next update
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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In 'My CodeProject', under 'Unanswered Questions', one of my thread which is a Clarification-Back to a thread (as a question) has appeared. I believe, 'Unanswered Questions' should feature only 'Thread Start' items. Isn't it?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare
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'Unanswered' means questions you've posted for which you have not marked a question as an 'Answer'
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Look at the title of the OP - the addition of "m" was probably the modification.
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Yes it was. First I accidentally wrote "foru" then I corrected it to "forum".
"Change is permanent, somethings never change!"
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Transferred from another forum
Yesterday I have started working on Objective-C for MAC platform. As I am new to MAC and obj-C, the first thought came in my mind is to go to codeproject and search for article related to MAC then it remind me that CP does not have any forum related to MAC nor objective C.
Now the thing is CP recently launched support for java and linux/unix (LAMP). so why can't we have a forum/articles for mac/objectivC/cocoa etc.. So everything can be accessible from one place
What do you say?
"Change is permanent, somethings never change!"
modified on Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:12 PM
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True. This can include issues with respect to Mac Browsers like Safari etc.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare
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It's an idea certainly. There do seem to be more Mac users stalking the forums.
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