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Load all the Country Names of the World in DropDown[^]
For what it's worth, three other alternates (from other people) were also deleted.
And then there's this one:
A Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items[^]
BTW, there is a restore button next to the ip in my list of tips/tricks, but when I click it, I get the page that says it couldn't be found.
WTF is going on?
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Maybe the author of the original tip did not like your alternative? Although after reading your alternative, it would better work as a comment rather than as a full alternative since it's not complete by itself.
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Alternatives don't have to incluide code, and even *I* can't delete alternate tips, so it had to be an admin that did 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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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You can delete alternatives to your own tips, not other peoples' so it wasn't necessarily an admin who did this.
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The key point being that *I* didn't do 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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Yes, but it wasn't your Tip/Trick: Sunasara Imdadhusen was the OP, he can delete alternatives he doesn't think fit the bill for some reason, without the admins getting involved.
[Edit]
Just seen you were the OP for the second one, apologies!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Alternatives don't have to incluide code,
Not always, but in this case it seemed more suitable as a comment than an alternate.
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I'm certainly not going to sit there and type in a couple huindred lines of X-f*ckin-ML. The decsription was an alternative. The OP is supposed to be a programmer. Let HIM type it in.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'm certainly not going to sit there and type in a couple huindred lines of
X-f*ckin-ML. The decsription was an alternative. The OP is supposed to be a
programmer. Let HIM type it in.
No one's saying you should. Just that what you posted is worthy of being a comment, that's all 
Based on Chris's reply, one of the editors seemed to have thought so too.
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The alternate A Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items[^] was (I'm assuming) deleted because the content had already been integrated into the main tip.
I've asked the editors about the country names one, though I would guess it's because what you posted wasn't an alternative, but was simply a comment on how to go about creating an alternative.
I looked through the logs and I was the one who deleted the alternative back in April.
"You'd be better off with an XML file, and loading the date using code-behind." is a totally valid suggestion, but it's not a tip. An Alternative Tip needs to be, by definition, a tip you can use as an alternative to the given tip, and needs to embody everything a tip has. At the very least a code snippet, even pseudo code, to walk a reader through what you are suggesting.
Now if you wish to discuss this further I'm on a small island in the Galapagos Islands and absolutely nowhere near Toronto.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified on Monday, August 22, 2011 5:03 PM
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Chris Maunder wrote: but was simply a comment on how to go about creating an alternative.
Which is an alternative itself.
Chris Maunder wrote: The alternate A
Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items[^] was (I'm assuming) deleted because the content had already
been integrated into the main tip.
It was something someone else suggested, which is WHY it was posted as an alternative *with the proper credit* to that user.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It was something someone else suggested, which is WHY it was posted as an
alternative *with the proper credit* to that user.
Interesting. I did not realize that this was how Tips worked. I assumed they'd be like the QA forum where you can add comments to responses. I think Tips should have this too. I'd rather see someone add a comment saying, "hey, maybe you can replace that String.Replace with a regex" than have that one line posted as an alternate Tip. Once a Tip gets a comment, the OP can then edit his Tip and include that data as well (if he thinks it's useful).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I assumed they'd be like the QA forum where you can add comments to responses.
You can.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: there is a restore button next to the ip in my list of tips/tricks
IP? We don't list that...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Somone is 1-bombing all of my messages in the SEAL Team 6 thread. Can we please put a stop to it? At last count, there were 11 1-votes, and that, to me, is abuse.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Well you could use your patented delete-and-repost method here! 
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Actually, no, I can't. Most of the messages have replies., and it's now 14 1-votes.
Like I said, it's abuse of the system. Plain and simple.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
modified on Monday, August 22, 2011 12:42 PM
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This is one reason to use the Back Room (it does not support voting).
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Countered them, and came to the conclusion the one-voter is of equal reputation as me (so you now have a bunch of 3's in the, hey at least it's no longer grey )
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I've had a word with the person responsible.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Were the 1s removed?
Playing devil's advocate here. What if whoever voted eleven 1s to John's posts in that thread was doing it because he felt those posts deserved 1s? How do you decide if it's someone blindly voting 1s versus someone actually thinking those votes deserve 1s?
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Don't know if it's possible but I think so.
11 1-votes is enough to be suspicious.
Then Chris could just compare the time stamps on those votes.
If they all occurred from the same person in under a minute or 2 it's blindly voting cause I don't think you can read 11 posts in 2 min (and all the reply's as to get a good understanding).
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: 11 1-votes is enough to be suspicious.
Then Chris could just compare the time
stamps on those votes.
If they all occurred from the same person in
under a minute or 2 it's blindly voting cause I don't think you can read 11
posts in 2 min (and all the reply's as to get a good understanding).
Well you could read an entire thread and then do the voting in one go. It's kinda subjective - voting I mean, so you can't always assume someone's blindly abusing the voting system.
When I posted about christian-conversion in India in the GIT forum, one Platinum member gave me six 1 votes in a space of 1 minute. He admitted it too later on. Of course I didn't get my knickers in a knot over it since I just ignored it and moved on. But point is, while I think his votes were unfair I also believe he was within his rights to vote as he wished. The last thing I want is someone like Chris playing morality advocate and deleting those votes and saving me those -96 points.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Well you could read an entire thread and then do the voting in one go. It's kinda subjective - voting I mean, so you can't always assume someone's blindly abusing the voting system.
I guess that's true but can you then honestly claim that you have a problem with every single one of the posts you one-voted.
Or did you (not you per se ) just have a problem with one of the posts and decided that all the rest of the post should suffer as well.
But as you say voting is highly subjective, a post I might consider funny someone else might consider it insulting.
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That gets my 5 - why is everyone so bothered about reputation?
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