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Sometimes talking to yourself is the only way to get intelligent conversation 
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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The trouble is when you lose an argument with yourself... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My problem is I often lose track of the conversation. Short attention span and all that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I hate it when ooo! Shiny!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I got two down votes in Q&A this week. One of them I actually expected - as I gave an answer that was good naturedly cynical. Actually, it caught some upvotes, too. This type of downvote is not a problem: you know what you post and someone might not be amused.
The second, however, was to one of four answers. A commentator noted all the downvotes. They assigned blamed (w/o evidence) and were corrected by another comment. This, however, is what triggered this suggestion.
How about a little AI-ish routine that looks for downvote patterns that are highly likely to be of the drive-by or vindictive nature? If such a pattern is observed, a human can take a look to determine if it's honest comment or someone who needs a bit of a spanking.
The idea is not to have anyone dissuaded from an honest downvote - but at the same time to protect CP from what is basically vandalism.
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Was this the question?
How to replace text from stringbuider value in C#?[^]
Yeah, I got downvoted in that one too. It's a fairly high-rep user because it was a 16-point downvote. Whoever it was, they downvoted all of the answers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah - I noticed the size, too. That's why an AI of some sort might take notice of this type of behavior. It may be that, if the overhead's too high, it doesn't run all the time.
Just knowing it might be running is often a good deterrent.
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Or we just stop worrying about points. Just saying. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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You don't really count the points - it's more of a short-term thing. Shows agreement and disagreement. If you look at it in the that manner, rather than the totals, it is useful.
Also, like it or not, it gives you a bit of a reading as to who's who in the sense that once you're getting into the 10K range you've shown your not just passing through, but are, part of what is somewhat of a community.
Rhetorical Questions: Do you ever note points on a poster? If so, why?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Shows agreement and disagreement. If you look at it in the that manner, rather than the totals, it is useful.
Who cares if anyone agrees with you? This is the internet. There will be people that both agree and disagree with you. So? Every once in a while on this site someone actually agrees with me so I know it's possible. 
W∴ Balboos wrote: Do you ever note points on a poster? If so, why?
I'm not sure what that means, "note points." Do I ever notice points? Do I ever upvote things? Not sure what you're asking.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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011111100010 wrote: I'm not sure what that means,
Don't overthink it. It means exactly what it says. It is rhetorical - thus doesn't require you answer.
As for who cares? If I post something that's funny, it's nice to know if others think so, too. If I see something very clever or funny, I like to show some appreciation - without always having to mouth-off with a followup, or worse, an emoticon (except for ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) , of course). There's even a bit of bonding as regulars pass arbitrary markers, such as 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, and even 10^6.
Perhaps it's just a measure of time wasted - or more probably - time well spent.
At least for some of us, there's something pleasant about laughing in good company. No one compels you to vote or look at scores.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It means exactly what it says.
In that case, no, I never "note points on a poster", because I have no clue what that means.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I've found that people aren't real tolerant of humor or sarcasm in Q/A.
".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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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I've found that people aren't real tolerant of humor or sarcasm in Q/A.
That's why I expected the first down vote. A price I was willing to pay. Some times you just have to do it.
That downvote was only mentioned as a method to show I'm tolerant of downvotes, per se.
The downvote on an answer where a downvote made no sense drew my attention; yours too; and got me thinking that there's a potentially identifiable pattern to that behavior.
Meanwhile, now I'm contemplating fratricide (i.e., offing another IT member or two). That's the only cure for stupid that actually works.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Shows agreement and disagreement.
My original reply to you has a couple of upvotes, which means some people agree that we should not worry about points. See? Useless. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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011111100010 wrote: See? Useless.
Teasing.
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Training it is the trick
We do have a system that shows when someone's going overboard with the up or down votes, but then you get someone genuinely giving great items a great rating, or another person genuinely downvoting poor material.
It's tricky.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That why a final human arbiter. One easier part of the training would be the time gap between the votes, particularly down-votes.
I'm stingy with up-votes; very stingy with down votes. There's at least one person here who upvotes every response to their posts as policy. I guess this confirms your "Training is the trick" - but it only need get close if humans oversee it - and hopefully it won't be going off very often.*
* Things aren't that bad, are they?
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I provided an answer that gave the OP what he asked for, yet the question was closed. I think the closing of the question was premature.
IMHO, closing a question should not hide answers that were provided.
".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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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Whatever you just recently did, this site is flying fast now. Hope it stays that way. 
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Funny story but there was an outage with a downstream provider in Toronto this afternoon and we were caught up with it. There were lots of people in full panic mode. For once there was nothing I could do. I got to sit back and watch.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I hope you enjoyed your popcorn and your beer
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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I was answering this[^] question at QA late last night, but received a "servers are a little overworked" message five times in a row, so decided to postpone it to the morning, just to find it went thru actually twice with a difference of 5 minutes...
While I have no problem to delete one of the answers you may want to investigate...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In light of this week's survey "How many computer languages do you know well enough that you'd be happy to use them to write production code?"
I suggest the complement:
"How many computer languages do you know well enough that you'd NEVER use them to write production code?"
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: How many Which computer languages do you know well enough that you'd NEVER use them to write production code?
A little more interesting, I think, especially if folks would comment why.
Of course, this would be like striking a match in a fireworks factory, so...
Software Zen: delete this;
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