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If an answer is bad then you should be able to mark it as bad. Just undoing an upvote has the same effect as not voting on it at all, which removes the concept of an answer being so wrong that it's dangerous. This is why downvotes have to continue.
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Sanjay K. Gupta wrote: remove the down vote button from QA section as like discussion forums.
Do you mean the 1 star to 5 star voting? Or am I just blind to where the downvote button is?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I've had this and I have only signed up. Somebody clearly with know knowledge of coding or someone who is jealous that another users answer holds more merit to being accurate than theirs.
My suggestion to this; is to give points to users who vote accurately to helpful suggestions. Votes could be pending review from admins who specialize in whatever language tag the question it for, and if a user who voted votes accurate, and their votes are approved by an admin, they get points for it.
The reason i am suggesting this; as par the sites methods is to provide users/readers with knowledge and accurate answers. If an accurate answer gets down-voted, a reader will be reluctant to use that example.
Does this not defeat the purpose of the site? What do you think?
Regards,
CodingK
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 I see you have answered 4 QA questions and only one had a 1 vote. That same question also had a 4 and 5 vote. One down vote is hardly abuse.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Hi Ryan, It's not just that post where I received the down-vote, yes that is what sparked the suggestion. But I am reading posts for the past few days that are perfectly fine and yet; get down-voted. Anyway, I've passed on my thoughts on the issue. It would do no harm to moderate votes in my opinion. Lets hope for a resolution. Eh?
Regards,
CodingK
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Who has the time to moderate the votes? It's hard enough to keep on top of moderating articles, never mind trying to get on top of the votes. I'm sorry, but to me, this idea is impractical.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: but to me, this idea is impractical.
+1 to that.
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 helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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We're not moderating votes. Therein lies the path to madness.
The most likely candidate for voting 2.0 is we simply open it up, show who voted, and let the vote wars go nucular!
(OK, maybe not)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well it would make for interesting reading.
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Is there any way to get the files from this workspace?
https://workspaces.codeproject.com/aelij/using-raw-input-from-c-to-handle-multiple-keyboards
Unfortunately I didn't receive any email from CP saying they are shutting down Workspaces, and I don't have another copy of the code.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I'll ask Kamil but the chances are slim. We had notices up for 2 months advising members.
Was this workspace connected to an article?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In that case the downloads for the article should reflect the code that was in the workspace. Update the workspace and the article's code was also updated automatically.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This was not my article, the workspace was forked.
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On the CodeProject API, I can access the APIs (except My) without providing credentials/an access token. I read nowhere that you can, so: is this by design?
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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This is why the API isn't public yet 
We're still completing the APIs and the docs. I'll send you an email when they are fully baked.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Alright, thanks!
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Could you try again. I had one API that was accepting non Authenticated requests, but have fixed that, I hope.
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Damn you. I have to get my OAuth code working now.
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There are some samples in the API Documentation. They are rough, but Chris has made this a priority. Which OAuth flow are you planning on using?
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Relax, I was kidding - well sort of. What I'm doing right now is writing a PCL OAuth 2 implementation that can be dropped into various different end targets; be they iOS, Android, WinPhone or Windows. I'm having to write some of the infrastructure that MS left out of PCLs to support this. Should be an interesting article - hopefully - and the APIs will be abstracted nicely behind an IOpenAuth interface. All will become clear when I have it all working.
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Brilliant.
OAuth is doing my head in: an abstraction will save a lot of people's hair.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Totally. I'm writing this so that it can be used in the way I normally have my code used in the office. The implementation is hidden behind an interface, which means that it can be swapped out and mocked for unit tests of the API code. I will probably end up abstracting the API behind interfaces as well.
To be honest, the abstraction is all I intended for the first article because it will have all the tests in place. The next article will be actually using the API in an application.
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Yes, I cannot access them anymore if I don't provide credentials. Thanks for taking a look at it!
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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I assumed that not being able to blow them away with spam/abuse flags was just a reaction to people abusing the flags against normal users because they couldn't downvote anymore. But OriginalGriff[^] says he can't kill them with his Protector tools either. This means that such charming[^] examples[^] of linkspam are around indefinitely; and if Google has supposedly figured out how to detect and penalize the spammy SEOers, they're also supposedly penalizing sites that don't clean up the garbage that gets posted to them. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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