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Hello CP,
I am an avid member and love to help the community. I loved Code Project. But recently I found something that hurt me badly and left me shocked.
I have been answering the community people. But I found that someone has downvoted all my articles and answers posted within an hour. So it looks like this not genuine downvoting.
This should be taken care to maintain the standard. Please correct me I am wrong.
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Humanity
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I cannot see any downvotes on your articles, but the two answers that got downvoted look more like comments. Perhaps you have made a comment that someone took offence to.
But in the grand scheme of things, votes will not buy you a new car, so just accept it as part of life in a public forum.
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I understand but then why we have this point system even? This way I may target one particular member and downvote everything. So this is not an explanation.
Moreover, Even in the democracy voting won't buy you anything but still, it should be fair for the system to work properly.
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Humanity
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Like I said, it is part of the cost of working in a public forum. Down or Up votes make very little difference to your status here. Just accept that it will happen: trolls are everywhere. Don't waste time worrying about it but get on with doing what you enjoy.
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One of two...
Someone from the staff has removed all downvoting, or you have looked wrong.
You have no downvotes in your articles or tips.
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 am still having downvotes. I can see it in my points table.
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Humanity
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Not in your articles or tips when I yesterday checked them up.
About in your messages... seeing the message below, I think you deserve some of the downvotes.
In addition... complaining that much about the downvotes can make you a target for more downvotes.
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 assume you're looking at your down-voted QA solutions?
My thoughts on your down-voted solutions from the first page:
Store procedure for making income tax[^]
This should have been posted as a comment, not a solution.
(Although, to be honest, I think the "we do not do your homework" answers should be comments as well, combined with reporting the question as "not a question". But that's a different discussion.)
Want to remove single quote from items inside json string using javascript[^]
A code dump with no explanation. In order to see the proposed solution, you have to scroll to the bottom of the code block. It also appears to be a C# solution, when the question was about Javascript.
How to use a variable to count from 1-10. Output the count to the user interface using a messagebox.show(); so that each number is displayed one at a time?[^]
Another code block with no explanation. Looking at the comments, the OP was struggling to implement your solution, and probably down-voted it for that reason.
Update 1st 5 digit of value[^]
Solution is for C#; the question was about SQL.
How do I generate random bank account number on C#[^]
No obvious reason for the down-votes.
How do I take numbers from textbox[^]
No obvious reason for the down-vote.
Cross domain call with ajax[^]
Answering your own question more than a year later, with an answer that's not particularly clear.
Beyond that, the first page has 12 questions with no votes, and one with two "5" votes. It certainly doesn't look like there's anyone "targeting" you. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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There is no one particular person downvoting your answers. And not every answer is downvoted. I believe this is more generic downvoting from your peers.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Ouch, that's an ego burn for the OP
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Being evil... I would say, one gets what seeds  
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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Possibly a Leslie-ian remark, but I answered a Q&A with another option (Q&A was oldish, but got bumped to list top and who reads dates?).
Anyway - I got a down-vote - no big deal - but the answer wasn't horrible so I went to see what's going on. All answers in the Question [^] were down-voted. This applies to the three original (circa 2014) and the three new.
So - assuming it is brought to their attention, can the mighty curators of CP see who does this and "make further inquiry"?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Q&A was oldish, but got bumped to list top and who reads dates?
I usually do, it helps spotting spammers
W∴ Balboos wrote: All answers in the Question were down-voted...
can the mighty curators of CP see who does this...?
In my case, no need. I don't hide.
I have downvoted / reported two of them, Solution #4 which brought the item back to live and #6 because I find the answer brings nothing to the topic (and looking to the history of this user... one could think he is near to abuse/troll)
Yours was more than clear that it was a "collateral" error of the question being brought back to top.
I do agree that downvoting the original answers makes no sense though.
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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Same is happening to me. Someone is downvoting all Q&A without giving a thought. Looks like revenge or mad act.
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Humanity
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If you've been here long enough, at least in The Lounge, the drive-by down voting for no rational reason is a contributing factor to why Lounge down-votes no longer take points from the poster.
Not everyone is as high-minded as we are!
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Dear CodeProject's Team,
Today, I've made minor updates of my article Dockerize A Simple Web-Application Created By Using Python, Flask and PostgreSQL[^]. After that I still could not find Docker subsection under Web Development » Applications & Tools ». I've selected the different subsection. My article was successfully updated, *BUT*, not longer displayed in the list of Docker Contest entries.
Please help me to correct this.
Thanks in advance.
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I think you'll be able to find the section now. Also, I see your article in the Entries now can you see it there?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean, Thanks a lot for your reply. Both, Docker section has become available and my article has appeared in the entries list again.
Thanks a lot for your assistance.
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When one searches Code Project site for articles, the initial list is sorted by “Relevance”. What is the definition of Relevance? In other words what makes one article more relevant than another article?
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We use Lucene.Net for our search engine. It determines the relevance based on the number of times the search terms are found in an item, the size of the item's content or searched field and a boost we calculate base on the item's type and popularity.
It can really get quite tricky to get good relevance, especially with programming oriented articles where you need to index tokens that aren't what would normal be considered words.
Lucene.Net is really fast. In fact, in most cases, it is faster than the equivalent search in SQL, and we have a monster of a SQL Server.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Thanks for your reply. I sometimes search using one word and it looks like the list is random list of articles. However, I noticed that I can change based on popularity.
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The more words you include in the search, the narrow the list of items returned.
For example searching for C# Dependency Injection will only return items that contain all three terms.
Also, on the left are a number of filter you can use to further narrow the search.
Similarilarly, many of the fields in the returned result list can be clicked on to drill down, things like the Author, Tags, Categories, ...
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I seem to be randomly missing links from the community menu. Which ones depends on where I am at that moment, tried on different browsers and clearing my cache just to make sure it wasn't something simple.
So from the home page, I've got:
- Who's Who
- Most Valuable Professionals
- The Lounge
- Where I Am: Member Photos
- The Weird & The Wonderful
- Press Releases
- Non-English Language >
From The Lounge, it includes all the same links plus one to The Insider News. However, if I open The Insider News, suddenly that link disappears. None of them include a link for the Soapbox (not that it is a HUGE loss, but still).
This happened before a couple weeks back and then suddenly fixed itself. Some examples of how it looks from each page so I can prove later on that I'm not (completely) crazy.
From home page, From The Lounge, and From The Insider News
Edit: ARG! When I edit this post all the links under the Community menu appear! Bugs/Suggs is the same list as The Lounge. Also went and checked the console, no errors being thrown except for some Cross-Origin blocking for ads. Did a search in the source for the missing menu items and couldn't find the text.
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A well-known phenomenon, already reported several times. Best you just accept it 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: A well-known phenomenon, already reported several times.
Figured I wasn't the only person dealing with it but forgot to search the forum in my moment of frustration.
0x01AA wrote: Best you just accept it
Already done, plus as a bonus I've already accepted that I might be quite crazy.  If it this were consistent or predictable it would be easier to ignore, random is much more noticeable.
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