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While I've learned to accept the mystery down-voter who awards me -16 points from time to time, often after the OP has accepted my response as "the answer," in QA, here Smile | :) ...

I am surprised, indeed, by what appears to be someone(s) going through many of my recent QA posts and up-voting them.

In case this is one of you (gentle readers), please keep in mind that the criteria I think are valid for voting (up, or, down) for a QA reply is: the technical quality of the solution; its relevance to the OP's concerns; and its over-all usefulness. I would hope that the criteria used by the mystery up-voter(s) are similar.

But, even though I consider myself (attempting to stay) outside the "rep game," I am not complaining Smile | :)

cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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