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Yeah that's right.
Chris you can delete your address out again - stored it on my side.
thanks!
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You should answer him or @-Summon him
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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Please help me to delete my account
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So I was just reading The Lounge "Technology's Gender Problem"[^] and decided to open the link.
The link itself point to the article, but the [^] link points to a post I JUST posted (hours after the gender post was written).
I can only guess that the [^] links to another post for everyone.
Unless the poster did some really impressive scripting I'm not sure how this is even possible 
I checked the links in the TIOBE post beneath it, but it doesn't have the same problem.
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Now the [^] in the gender post links to the gender post itself, perhaps because that's the last message I viewed?
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Ok, so this is "fixed", although it was never broken (see Richards answer) 
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modified 15-Oct-18 17:10pm.
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The href on the [^] link is blank, so it points to the current URL.
It's also missing the title="New Window" attribute, and has the non-standard rel="nofollow noopener" attribute, so I suspect the user may have typed the link manually.
"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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Hi,
I have updated my RaptorDB article (and ticked the "mark as updated") but it is not showing up in the updated article list on the main page.
Thanks.
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Are you following stuff? If you're on the "Following" tab and your article isn't tagged by attributes you follow it won't show.
Also: if you edit the article within a week of it being posted or last edited then that update won't be listed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 17-Oct-18 15:41pm.
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I tidied up a QA question earlier ... How to find missing record's in sqlserver[^], did all the edits in one hit, but the history shows me having updated it 3 times.
Obviously not a showstopper, just a heads up.
Using Edge browser.
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Ah, Missed/forgot about that one.
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Ah well...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I believe that we need to do something about down-voting CP articles. It appears that any member can do it. I just read Work around Windows 10 WiFi reconnection failing[^]. I thought that it was a reasonable approach to a problem its poster had encountered. But it was voted 1 by 2 voters. I do not know who did the down-voting and I would like to be assured that the down-voters had sufficient cause to down-vote. Either they had obtained a sufficient reputation (maybe 5000 or more) or they offered a reason in the comments. I believe that any vote less than 3 should meet some requirement.
It takes a lot of effort to write an article or tip/trick. I think that CP is doing a disservice to its authors by not doing something about down-votes.
Gus Gustafson
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This comes up on a regular basis. The previous experiment which required a comment for every down-vote didn't end well:
Article Voting: The dangers of all-good news - Chris Maunder - Professional Profile[^]
The current system does a pretty good job of filtering out down-votes from low-rep members, so long as higher-rep members also vote. For example, your "5" on the article you linked to has effectively wiped out the two "1" votes, bringing its total up to 3.91. The details of how this works are explained in the FAQ:
Code Project Rating and Reputation FAQ[^]
NB: That's not to say the system can't be improved.  Just that the obvious solutions have already been tried, and found wanting.
"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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I appreciate the effort that CP put into assigning valid scores to articles. However, that does not answer the question as to how much I should rely on existing votes. I would have voted 4 for the article but voted 5 just to offset the unexplained low votes of others. It is imperative that CP fix this issue. I believe that the very reputation of CP is on the line.
Gus Gustafson
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You're asking, in essence, for every article to have a definitive score.
That's like asking for a definitive review of a book, or painting, or movie.
Some people will like them. Some people won't. Some people will put lots of effort into thinking through their vote. Some will vote from their gut. Some will vote because they absolutely positively disagree with the methods used in creating a solution, even though the article was beautifully written and simple to use. Some will vote because it was the only thing they could find that solved their problem and let them get their work done.
The options that have come up over time are:
1. We show "Expert votes" whereby only votes from those with a certain rep are counted. This reduces the fly-by votes, which means far less votes, but probably more thoughtful ones. Or maybe not.
2. We split voting into categories: Presentation, Technical correctness, Easy of use. That way you could focus on just those articles that have high "technical correctness", while voters could just give high presentation scores and maybe abstain from the technical correctness vote.
Neither of these address the issue of spurious votes, neither address the "eye of the beholder" issue either.
I'm open for other suggestions.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just thinking loud here, but why not both?
"Quality votes" on categories but allow anyone to giva a general vote. Members with sufficient rep gets a "popup" with the possibility to give categorical votes.
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When I was young and impetuous this is exactly what I would have done, however doing so merely increases the complexity of the system for debatable returns.
Ultimately the system works best when it gets lots of votes, as in enough to drown out the small percentage (and it generally is a small percentage) of spurious votes. Hence the system needs to be as simple and inviting as possible.
I'm currently leaning towards showing an overall rating and an "experts" rating. When I get the chance I'll run some experiments and see if there's any actual difference.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Experts rating would definitely be much simpler and it is certainly more important that it just works. And you're probably right about the debatable returns.
But since I'm into wishing, I would like to mention, that one of the things I'm missing is to be able to search for whether the article is a "Code Sample", a "Walkthrough" or a technical background article.
Or combinations thereof. And while that easily could be done in the form of tags or similar, the articles usefulness in these areas should be asserted by the users I believe.
Ah, scrap that. It probably wouldn't work.
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do you really think the future "authors" will get that sorted correctly?
And what happens with the millions of past articles without that cathegorization?
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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That's why I finished with "scrap that".
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: to be able to search for whether the article is a "Code Sample", a "Walkthrough" or a technical background article
Yes! And it's really easy. If the articles are tagged correctly. This has been an issue for ages but one we're addressing in the coming weeks. It's important.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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