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I have seen that a lot of solutions/ tip & trick are downvoted by the users for no reasons. Its very discouraging to the users who research and post the answers. I observed many of the working solution are downvoted. Morever downvoting reduces more points than the user has received by posting the solution.
My suggestion is that when some answer is downvoted, the voter should be made compulsory to enter the comments why the answer was downvoted. Also make him loose some points ( my suggestion is 2) for downvoting a solution.
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There are people who take pleasure in down voting, don't let it annoy you.
If a post is genuinely bad it will attract a lot of negatives and rightly so. For a good post that gets a 1, it will normally receive a 5 from someone in recompense. On the whole if you keep posting good quality comments, then your reputation will reflect that.
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As you can see, some idiot downvoted your question. I have +5'ed it in compensation and trust one or two others will do the same.
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Thank you Nagy and Richard for encouraging me.
And you are 100% right ; even if some of the ill minded users down vote the articles/solutions, in the long run only the working solutions will get the points. And if it really a good solution , then it will get a lot lot of points. I will try to post the best..
No doubt the good will always take over the evil..
edit- In 6 hours, my suggestion received 2 times more upvotes than the downvotes.
modified 18-Oct-11 15:16pm.
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Not only that, but sometimes it is the original question asker - they seem to think that it's 1 for good, and 5 for bad occasionally.
If it is malicious, then the best thing to do it ignore it - if you let them know it annoys you, it gives them an incentive to continue.
Requiring a reason isn't as helpful as you might think - there are enough sock puppet accounts already that could be used for that purpose: we don't need more.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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5 to offset.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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I've sent the member involved an email.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have seen many 'platinum' members downvoting the best feasible posts/solutions. I am now sure that these guys do this just to gain reputation points.
I suggest CP should not grant reputation points for downvoting.
modified 20-Oct-11 9:00am.
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You don't get rep points for downvoting.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Dear Chris
Thanks for the info . ( I voted it 4 since it benefitted me.. )
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I suggest to add new tags like extjs,ext.net and etc to give a proper tag to question related to this.
Thanks
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being
-Swami Vivekananda
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Those with Silver status can add new tags at will, so patience is the answer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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it will be useful to add to each article
Number of downloads last week
Number of views last week
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Hamster Wranglers,
I am not sure but I believe that I may have stumbled onto a bug. Symptoms are as follows:
If the highlighted text that I intend to turn into a URL hyperlink is the same as the last relative path in the URL... the bug removes the last relative path from the URL.
Heh, not sure if that makes any sense so let me give a graphical representation and steps to reproduce.
For example... if I want to turn the text rfc1737 into a wiki link to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1737[^]
If I highlight the text rfc1737 and paste the link on top it... I get:
rfc1737[^]
For some reason it removes the rfc1737 from the URL path. I have tested this on Webkit,Google Chromium and IE9.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I keep seeing this. Looks like it happened here.
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Looking at CP through my mobile is sometimes a pain in the butt, since the links are too close to one another and I end up hitting the wrong links a lot. If there were a mobile version of the site that was layed out in a format friendlier to the smaller screens/fat finger combination, it would benefit those of us who regularly visit the site over mobile.
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In the short term, you can append ?mobile=true to any CP URL to get a phone friendly version. In the morning after he wakes and supresses the latest series of attacks by the Rodent Liberation Front, Chris will probably drop a URL to a browser ID page so he can update CP to automatically send your phone (and anyone else using the same browser) to the mobile version by default.
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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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Already there at the bottom of each page. I think it's a little buggy, though - will check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I read ( and sometimes write ) articles here and I actually think the opposite of mark merrens.
The voting on articles works well in the sense that most articles have enough votes to indicate a general consensus. This is a really useful indicator.
However, I guess people are reluctant to cast low votes now an identifying comment is mandatory - even when that vote is appropriate.
The new standard deviation filter is great and does a pretty good job of ignoring unwarranted votes.
So, how about going back to anonymous ( to the public ) voting again?
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I like your suggestion but at the same time, since it is an article, if someone thought of it as a "1" then wouldn't you want to know why or what inspired the vote?
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Sure, the author has rights, but so do readers and there are many more of those.
What I don't know is what balance is best for the site. I thought it was worth thinking about though.
Nick
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Nicholas Butler wrote: I thought it was worth thinking about though.
and it is.
I feel that the author should not be allowed to vote on reply threads to their own articles. That way if you vote a one on a poor article, the author can't turn around and one vote you back out of revenge.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Probably worthwhile weighing in on this thread.[^]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I posted a reply to Pete on this thread and didn't want to repeat myself in Nish's thread.
Is this discussion useful? You have access to a lot more information than any of us!
Nick
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Nicholas Butler wrote: The voting on articles works well in the sense that most articles have enough
votes to indicate a general consensus. This is a really useful indicator.
Actually, I disagree. In the old days of the voting system, it was common for some authors to vote 1 to push articles out of the "latest best picks" articles so that their articles would be at the top. Now, a single vote of 1 is enough to push an article out of site, and consequently it never gets read.
Also, your approach presumes that there are enough selfless people willing to vote 5 to compensate. One of Nish's recent articles was viewed over a 1000 times before anybody bothered to vote at all; something that greatly irritated me because the article was an outstanding one. The standard deviation filter is useless in cases like this.
So, I vote no to the anonymous voting.
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