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I was just thinking that it might discourage users from maliciously down voting posts, articles, etc, if they knew that we knew who they were. There is nothing wrong in getting a deserved down vote - but nothing worse than an innocuous post or decent article getting down voted for no apparent reason. At least we'd be able to ask them why.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Might lead to retaliation... that's probably why they've never done it before...
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Maybe to start with but it would put paid to malicious down voting.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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This is the same as listing voter's names. For articles you need to provide a comment when downvoting, so there's no issue there. For forum messages it would simply lead to voting wars waged via sock-puppets.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Fair point re articles but do you not think that the wars might burn out very quickly? Or, perhaps, insist on a comment for 1 votes even in forum posts?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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digital man wrote: do you not think that the wars might burn out very quickly?
Oh I think everyone knows who is at war and who isnt, and they have been at it a long time. 
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Nothing to say.
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Or, to put it another way...
"War... War never changes."
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Hi CP developers
I had a total reputation points of 1025. Then I added two of my blogs to the CP > Articles > Submit blog. When I was submitting the blogs, I got the parsing error , so I resubmitted it. In the blogs list I found that one of my blog was submitted 3 times and the other one 2 times.
So I browsed to the 'Manage blogs' link and deleted my duplicate blog entries , a total of 3 of them.
But to my astonishment, I found that my reputation score has been reduced to 975. I checked the details and found that I did not get the reputation points for the duplicate entries but 50 points were deducted for each blog entry deleted.
I was punished for cleaning up the mess. Please check.
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All fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think I had mentioned this before. I've tried turning the setting on, then saving the Preferences, then turning it off and saving ... but this seems to have no effect.
Since, now, I'm more active on the Quick Answers forum, commenting, and replying with answers, these are increasing in number, and I prefer not to have cryptic e-mail updates.
thanks, Bill
"Use the word 'cybernetics,' Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments." Claude Shannon (Information Theory scientist): letter to Norbert Weiner of M.I.T., circa 1940
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I think with QA that you get an email message every time anyone posts a comment to a "Solution" that you have added; even those in reply to other comments. These are not private email messages, as they would have the return address of the sender rather than the generic CodeProject address.
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Thanks, Richard, I do see these messages are coming in response to QA comments, and answers, and I clearly saw these messages are generated by CP, not the individual responder, but I thought that when you set your site Preferences in your Profile to not allow private e-mails, that applied to all responses in every are of CP.
I do think the site user should have total control over all private notifications.
My preference would be to have fine-grained control over permissions for CP to generate an e-mail notification, so that, for example, I could choose not to have notifications from QA, but could choose to have them from responses to my own posts on C#.
Also, ideally, I could have the choice of receiving all notifications once per day.
I love thinking of work the CP could do
best, Bill
"Use the word 'cybernetics,' Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments." Claude Shannon (Information Theory scientist): letter to Norbert Weiner of M.I.T., circa 1940
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BillWoodruff wrote: I love thinking of work the CP could do
I don't think you're alone there!
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Is it just me?
The News page seems to just list the latest articles.
While I'm here, any possibility of searching Forum posts, and seeing results ordered by date (most recent first) - I was trying to see if I was reposting, but had to wade through too many posts from 2007 to do so thoroughly.
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Rob Grainger wrote: While I'm here, any possibility of searching Forum posts, and seeing results ordered by date (most recent first)
In the right panel there's a 'sort by' listbox, choose Date Created/Modified Desc
Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary
Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos.
It's because English is my primary language, not my first language.
My first languages are C# and Java.
VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language.
Indonesian came as my third language.
My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done! 
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On this page: http://www.codeproject.com/script/News/List.aspx[^]? It's listing news items at the moment. If it's been stealing the articles' lists and showing them instead then it's going to get a formal reprimand.
Any luck with the forum message search? (left hand bar as mentioned). Please let me know if things are still weird (the search, not the messages themselves.)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I wrote a pretty popular article a long time ago (8 years), and was surprised by how frequently it's been being downloaded. So when I looked at "Recent Reputation Points" and clicked on the download file (prettygoodsplashscreencode.zip) the link took me to someone else's splash screen article. Seems like something is wrong here. The HTML looks like this:
<td class="border-none-left">Related File<a id="ctl00_MC_LRH_ctl03_SmO" href="/KB/dotnet/Yet_Another_Splash_Screen.aspx">prettygoodsplashscreencode.zip</a> </td>
The file "prettygoodsplashscreencode.zip" is mine. The article "Yet_Another_Splash_Screen.aspx" is not.
So maybe I'll lose some reputation points here, but I'd rather it be fair if I'm wrongly getting credit.
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We have a few mis-appropriated links that we're in the process of fixing. They'll all be rewired and points recalculated - so thanks for letting us know there's another one, and also for the honesty. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Me too have the same problem Chris. I posted this[^] few months back here.
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out...
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for being so honest...
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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Wow! Thanks guys, but really, you would all have done the same thing. This place is full of honorable people with integrity.
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I noticed the following behaviour:
- an article was pending and in my opinion it needed formatting so I left a message (suggestion) to correct the formatting, +1 point
- someone didn't like the message so it was downvoted, -2 points
- the article was removed so a "Post a General Forum Message (undo)" was added, -1 point
So at the end the total is -2 points. Now the question is, should the down/upvotes also be removed when the article is removed (as the conversations are) or is this intended that votes still remain?.
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