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Possibly, but I think he got the message eventually.
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Richard is a high rep user. If he downvoted you, you would lose a lot more than that.
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i understand Quote: Pete O'Hanlon
but any readers should also think once before downvoting things or answers , and should respect if person who is answering is trying or spending some more time than his own daily hectic schedule ...
It just for a cause i started helping people if i get demotivation .... how could i steer ahead and give solution to people in need ?
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Is there a reason you quoted my name?
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nopes i do not have any wrong intention i just tagged to state i have replied to your comment .. 
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There's no need to do that. I get a notification when there is a reply.
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Neither of the two people who responded in this thread are saying your down-votes are justified. They are just stating that there is no real solution to the problem. You've got to learn to live with it. In the long run, the large community here on CP is fair enough that the blind down-voters have very little overall impact on someone's rep scores. It's subjective as to how valuable rep scores are other than being a nice psychological boost to people who spent a lot of their time helping the community, but even assuming they have some virtual tangible value, the fair votes vastly out-number the unfair ones.
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I'm pretty sure it's been asked before, but I for one would be happy to receive notifications whenever an article that I've bookmarked has been updated.
As an added premium it would be even nicer if the author could check whether it's a bugfix, added functionality or updated contents. (or not check anything at all if it's a minor update or just a fixed typo)
And then the user can check what he/she wants to subscribe to.
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I think it could be nice
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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Yes. This one's on the list, and has been for a while.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The net ratings of the original question/post // not broken out in detail here
+ ratio of "accepted" solutions to posted "solutions" * factor1
+ number of solutions where OP voted #5 * factor2
+ number of solutions where OP voted #4 * factor3
+ number of solutions where OP voted #3 * factor4
+ number of solutions where OP voted #2 * factor5
+ number of solutions where OP voted #1 * factor6
+ number of solutions where no one voted * factor7 (negative)
+ number of #5 votes (not by OP) * 5 * factor8
+ number of #4 votes (not by OP) * 4 * factor9
+ number of #3 votes (not by OP) * 3 * factor10
+ number of #2 votes (not by OP) * 2 * factor11
+ number of #1 votes (not by OP) * factor12
+ number of reports * factor13 // break-out by type of report ?
I invite you to imagine the "weightings" of the "factors" based on how you perceive both original post rating, and reputation rating of responders on QA as it is now, and consider: if you could re-design the rating system for QA, how would you set (or delete, or add to) the "factors."
Of course there are many potential factors left out here: suppose one is willing to "open the can of worms" of evaluating question-responders' behavior ?
If someone posts thirty solutions per day, does that mean something in terms of "quality" ? If someone posts thirty comments per day on the questions-asked trying to get the OP to clarify what they mean (I just raised my hand): does that mean something ?
If someone posts thirty solutions per day, almost all of which have one URL as their content, with no explanatory text: does that mean something ?
... and, so on ...
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence ("Arete"), then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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I used to write finite element simulations of rainfall, river and subsurface flow through porous materials which took into account dozens of variables and would in turn report things like runoff rate, erosion rate, saturation, turbidity and anything else you wanted.
The thing I learned really quickly, and to my advantage, is that the more knobs you have in your system the easier it is to get the answer you want to get.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Extrapolating from the "more knobs == more vulnerability to experimenter bias" hypothesis I would posit a complementary (in the sense of that word as used by Niels Bohr) hypothesis that fewer knobs might result in a greater increase of the potential for errors due to the fact that a minor error of adjustment of one of the fewer knobs could have a proportionally large effect on the outcome.
Of course, this is academic, and in "real" research you most often have a process of experimentation that (hopefully) converges on the "knobs" that have the most powerful explanatory power for the variance. And, the meaning of any "knob" value has to be weighted against the probability of "bad data."
Returning to Earth: my "take away" from this response is that you do not wish to consider, at this time, addressing the issue of what the "quality" in QA means. While not indifferent to that take-away, I can absorb it without digestive discomfort
I do think you should fly to Thailand to discuss this with me whilst on elephant-back asap.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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I've been told, repeatedly, that discussing things on an elephant back is 37% more productive than it's closest alternative (which as we all know is "while hot-air ballooning"). They shipped out the last 2 elephants in Toronto some months ago and my productivity has now gone down a little over 37%.
I love an experiment. I really do. But I also love ensuring I don't build extremely complicated experiments while my patient users patiently, but with patience diminishing, wait for more mundane fixes and changes to be made.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My Aunt Sally told me that debating what the best brand of cutlery is with a surgeon doing triage while bombs were falling was pointless at best, and annoying at worst 
But, "Aunt Sally taught me a lot of stuff … about life … some of it turned out to be true, and the … many … parts of what she taught me that turned out to be total lies … hey … is it … uhhh … hindsight … that I now think that going through a lot of living acting if those lies were honest-injun-truth … and then finding out those parts were lies … was good for me ?" [^].
cheers, Bill
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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For the past week, I've noticed CP slowness caused by waiting for dj9okeyxktdvd.cloudfront.net. The url seems constant and the problem occurs both at work and from home.
/ravi
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Ad block active?
Unfortunately I'm unable to repeat what you're seeing.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We have a light ad blocker @ work (CP ads come through), but I have nothing at home. I even run with a clean hosts file. Will monitor in ChromeF12 and let you know if I find something odd.
/ravi
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Subject pretty much says it all.
The sticky posts on top off the forums are no longer there (does seem to have reserved the space for it tho)
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They seem fine to me...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The lounge seems to have it back, others as well. But the soapbox / weird and wonderful forum still don't have any (although I don't know if they ever did).
I'm pretty sure tho that at the time of posting my 'bug report' the lounge didn't have it either. (That or I'm imagining things and I have to take an extra pill today )
Anyway they are back (if the soapbox and weird/wonderful forum don't have any) so, one of those 'it fixed itself bugs' I guess (the best kind )
Tom
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The soapbox / W&W don't have stickies so they are good.
(Now I sit back and let someone quote that out of context)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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They are missing in action again (well at least the one on the lounge )
I'v got screenshots this time, just so I know I'm not going crazy
From what I can see it's only the lounge tho.
Never mind, it's back
Tom
modified 2-Dec-14 14:31pm.
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Message Removed
modified 26-Nov-14 9:20am.
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