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Ditto. Well said Mahasa.....I would like to say same things and wish so
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I use 'extremely poor quality' to compensate that kind of voting...
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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Gone by now... the problem is the other 38 remaining. I know that face from other moderation items, I have tried to do my 5c but when it gets approved... all gets away.
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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Mika Wendelius wrote: should the criteria for removing votes take the member voting weight into account
It is.
Unfortunately there were too many high votes that still outweighed the low votes. A few more big guns downvoting would have tipped the scales.
However, the big guns brought out the really BFGs. The article is no more.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: However, the big guns brought out the really BFGs.
With snozzcumber sandwiches and a pint of frobscottle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG[^]
"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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No, this[^].
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Chris Maunder
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That's the one I thought of immediately. Also of many late nights at work playing on the PCs that had enough horse power to play the game decently.
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What if votes placed by a gold or platinum member wouldn't be removed at all, regardless of high votes? I believe that could level the situation and votes from these members are more likely to be, how should I say, valid...
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This wouldn't solve the issue with the given article. They were mainly low rep votes.
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Chris Maunder
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Why was it deleted though? It looks like a decent article, lots of effort, screenshots, code samples and detailed explanation. 40,000 views since December. 2000 code-sample downloads and 50 bookmarks. Can't have been bad enough to have got deleted surely?
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His member profile says Legend even though his Article count is now 0. Should that be fixed or are you freezing his last known status?
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Hi CodeProject team,
I am always searching for help and stuff on this site, and i love getting instant help from the contributors.
The only lag here is the rendering of webpages on mobile browser, so I would really appreciate if you'd come up with an app that works over my android mobile, so that i can stick to studying/learning on-the-go as well.
Kindly consider this as well.
Thanks & Regards,
Shashank Saxena
(New Delhi)
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Shashank, this is something that should be coming soon. A certain member of the community will be writing a mobile version to work on Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
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OK - so nobody will ever be happy with the voting system, but how about this suggestion:
"Force" anyone reading an article to actively decide not to vote.
If they leave the page without voting, pop up and tell 'em "Thanks for reading, your feedback will really be appreciated. You can vote 1-5 or N/A - where N/A means this really wasn't appropriate for my needs or IO landed here by mistake.
Personally I would default the vote to 3 - but the N/A readers might just accept that which would skew the ranking so it may be better to default to N/A - but making it easy to vote (like maybe 5 buttons) would be imperative - with a text box for any comments (which, I suppose, could be mandatory under certain circumstances)
If everyone is forced to vote this would hopefully go some way to getting a more accurate feel of how useful/good the article is?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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This will generate a lot of uninformed votes from those who go to an article via search, scan the first few lines, and then leave when they realise it's not what they were after.
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Chris Maunder
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True - but if they are all "N/A" votes - effectively a no-vote - then no change - but I would think it would also generate more votes in general which would help the "my mates all voted 5" situation
If (like me) your first thought is that it would hinder the awesome articles (like mine ) well, I'm not sure that's the case - a user taking the option to change from N/A to a vote would at least be thinking about what they are voting for - and if that brings the votes down a bit then that's democracy at work!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Obviously I'm concerned about your awesome articles. That's really all this discussion comes down to, right?
My issue with a flood of N/As is that popular (by search engine standards) articles will have their ranking pulled towards 3.0. That's not exactly fair or accurate. Or desirable.
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Chris Maunder
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The N/A wouldn't count as a vote 'score' - so its the same as just closing the page without voting - but just gives that little push toward actually making an effort.
(just thought too, one should not be able to bookmark or download without voting!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Ah, so a prompt, a nag, more than anything.
Hmmm. Interesting.
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Chris Maunder
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I like the idea, but I would change "N/A" to "I don't feel informed enough to vote yet" or something along those lines.
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Yes - I agree - needs to be explained.
Some wordsmith needs to come out with a succint one-liner that sums up all the legit reasons not to vote, that pushes the user to vote, but doesn't make them feel bad if they genuinely don't want to...
"Yo! Just not my thang, bro'" maybe?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I saw your post in my inbox & thought it was a CCC!
Yes - as I posted elsewhere today, when I am looking for some information, I might find an article, read it, then get off and use the information - forgetting to vote at all - so that nag would make me do it
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Would it remember you already voted?
Also, one of the reasons I so rarely vote is that, while I can recognize that an article is bad (and I report them so), I usually don't feel qualified to declare an article good, so I leave it up to others who know the topic better. I'd be hitting N/A on everything or, better yet, just closing the tab.
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