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Quote of the day: people are far too excited by the prospect of being an ass on the internet while enjoying anonymity
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Chris Maunder
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The only thing I can say is that I often don't downvote articles because I don't want to write an essay about what's wrong with that. And it is unfair that anyone can upvote without giving any reason but not downvote, the only result is having ALL the articles on 4-5 stars, that renders the vote useless.
If you require reasons for all the votes though almost nobody would upvote except the rep farmers, and we'd end up with most of the articles unvoted and only the plagiarised crap with many stars. That is worst than useless.
The way which the votes are filtered is good enough to resist to a few stray votes, and there is nothing that resists to heavy abuse - any system can be abused.
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Think it's a
"Right your all sensible adults, so I'm going to treat you that way and trust you won't abuse it" kind of a move.
Once we inevitably prove that the we are all "sensible adults" was a foolish assumption, voting on articles will be made public so you can see who downvoted it.
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And then we can form a mob an lynch them with....
downvotes? 
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I remain to be convinced that this is a step forwards.
But now we know how you really feel.
Seriously, I kind of agree with you on this. I think you should provide a reason for the down-vote; especially if people put a lot of time into their article.
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Slacker007 wrote: especially if people put a lot of time into their article
Are there any other kind?
No, don't answer that, it was merely wishful thinking. 
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I still think the article voting system should be changed to a simple "Is Useful" system, with no way to down-vote at all. This would give us the ability to a) see who thought the code was useful, and b) to gauge relevance within the real-world coding community. If you find an article useful, you simply mark it as such. It would also be easy for other people to see what articles you find useful.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I still think the article voting system should be changed to a simple "Is Useful" system,
This is what it currently is. Downvotes have become marginalised in places they shouldn't be, so all we have is "how many upvotes can you get".
So then you have an article posted 2 years ago with 100 upvotes, and a new article with 10 upvotes. Which one is more useful?
Further, this does nothing to combat the issue of members having friends and family massively upvote them. Specifically we need a solution to have poor articles clearly marked as poor. Having a poor article with 20 "useful" votes isn't very useful.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I believe that system was already in place.
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To be honest, so are we (remaining to be convinced, that is). However, we're not willing to continue with the way things have been - it's way too unbalanced.
So, consider this an experiment. We're going to let it sit, monitor the "someone downvoted my article!" complaints, and see if the level of downvoting converts into a sensible and useful level of corrective voting.
You can probably guess what the next step in our experiments will be 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Looks like from past few days, MS has been pushing lots of updates. None of these get installed when I select install updates and shut down. I have left the machine on overnight and it was still stuck at installing update 1 of N.
Is it just me?
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Yes.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That was comforting. 
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Well, for me! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I reckon the "Difference between an English sports team and a cup" joke fact is on its way...
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Since I care not in the slightest about England, or Cricket...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're more into ![Sheep | [baah]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) aren't you?
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My fan told me the update was installed 
My fan always makes eeking noises when the pc is turned off while he is doing his last rotations
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I do not want to know your personal life details. Mind bleach needed. 
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At least it's only a fan, rather than a stalker.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This: http://www.xkcd.com/1492/[^]
I hadn't seen the original fun-and-games about this (http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/[^] if you're interested) so I had to look at Explain XKCD[^] to find our what the elephant Randal was on about.
Then I had to download the picture, and load it into Paintshop Pro to use the colour picker and check... 
And yes: both dresses are the same colour: #879abd, or R:87, G:9A, B:BD
Sure as heck look different to me!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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