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That particular horse is dead. You can stop flogging it now.
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Hello There,
I tried to search a facility to download an article so that I can read it offline i.e. when I am not connected to the internet.
I believe such a facility (i.e. download an article or series of article as PDF) may help users to combine related interesting articles and read at the leisure. I think such facility is already available at WikiPedia (compile PDF on the fly of related articles).
Thanks
Milind Thakkar
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My first thought was, what a great idea. My second thought was, but what about the downloads? When I read an article I like to view the code as well.
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Well, you can download the code as well ! And try the code/read article while on the move probably !
And then if you can combine the many article in PDF or so, that would be fantastic ! your own e-book and that to from people who has done real work rather than some bookish knowledge !
And then CodeProject can probably have moderated list of such compiled e-books in future.
- Milind Thakkar
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Down voting is becoming a very disturbing thing. Specially if people down vote and runaway like a chicken. they don't even leave a note why they down voted. before you have added an comment option with down vote. but then you removed, I dont know why. But I believe anywhere in this forum whoever get a down vote deserve an explanation.
Please do something about it.
I wish I could believe there is an after life.
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This has been debated endlessly on this site. There is no consensus on how to fix it.
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It should be "one man, one vote". I want to be the one man.
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Mohibur Rashid wrote: whoever get a down vote deserve an explanation.
Learn to live with it; it really is not important.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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agreed, but it was not about vote actually, it was about missing an opportunity to explain the voter.
I wish I could believe there is an after life.
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Mohibur Rashid wrote: it was about missing an opportunity to explain the voter.
You can still do that, replying to yourself or editing your post and adding an explanation when it gets downvoted.
Also, I've noticed that most CP regulars usually explain the downvote when they cast it, so it's not such a big problem. As said, although the system is not perfect, it could be worse. Better learn to live with it.
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If someone is required to explain a univote, it will probably just read asdfg and it will be posted from a sockpuppet account.
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Then I will be able to report on him....
I wish I could believe there is an after life.
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But what will you be reporting? Honestly, it's like listening to the types of arguments that my 8 year old used to come out with. Seriously, just ignore it. If someone has a valid thing to say about your post/answer/article, they will tell you.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: it will be posted from a sockpuppet account.
Which will be a low-rep account and thus the vote won't have as much negative effect. That'd be a a nice improvement over the current system.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Learn to live with it; it really is not important.
To you, perhaps. But it's important to lots of people.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: But it's important to lots of people.
No, it isn't, they just erroneously think it is. Anonymous downvotes mean absolutely nothing, other than that the voter is a dick, and has not the courage to enter into a proper discussion. And they do us no harm whatsoever.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
No, it isn't, they just erroneously think it
is.
So long as they think that, that's all that matters.
One way to help people feel better would be if the debator rep score was totally cancelled. If down votes and up votes on non-technical forum posts don't matter, then why tally it up and display it on profiles?
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Now we're on the same page. 
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Not 100% sure about this, but I've been noticing that even though an article is voted (based on information on rep history), the vote counter doesn't seem to increase. This doesn't happen always, just for some votes.
For example this article Encrypting a dataset using AES, including compression[^] shows currently 6 votes, but I have a feeling that something like 8 or 9 is more close?
So could it be that all the votes are not showing in the vote counter?
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Seemed to work when I voted. Is there any specific reason why you believe there are votes missing?
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Yep, I noticed that your vote was added correctly.
The reason I'm suspecting this is that in detailed rep history list, I've seen votes on that article but when I look at the count of the votes, it's not increased.
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Quite interesting, Iv'e seen the same on posts but I just thought I was too tired.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I just thought I was too tired.
That cannot be excluded for me neither 
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Articles and their ratings get cached. You may have been seeing an old cached version.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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