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It sucks when I was no where near to that post before.
-Prakash
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Yes, but a necessary evil to stop the kiddies abusing the system.
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J4amieC wrote: Yes, but a necessary evil to stop the kiddies abusing the system.
Yes I perfectly understand your point, but when i could not vote on some post because someone else from 2000+ employees behind the company proxy voted it, then it really sucks.
-Prakash
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Mr.Prakash wrote: Yes I perfectly understand your point, but when i could not vote on some post because someone else from 2000+ employees behind the company proxy voted it, then it really sucks.
Yeah, if Smitha votes on a message, then I can't. Pity really. Maybe in CP v2 they'll fix this problem.
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It's not a problem that can be fixed. The only way of identifying someone on the internet is by IP address, so that's the only thing we can check to ensure people aren't abusing the system.
Voting is meant to provide an overall feel for the value of a post or article. If some members are unable to vote then that's a pity, but there are millions of others who can. So while it may be frustrating it's still better than making it easier for vote stacking to occur.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: So while it may be frustrating it's still better than making it easier for vote stacking to occur.
Hey Chris,
Yes, I understand the reasoning behind this. But couldn't you make it easier for regular trusted members (say members who've been active for at least 3 years) by allowing a flag to be set that will allow them to vote (even if someone from the same IP has voted already on the same post)? Could you perhaps put that into a low-priority todo list 
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That's the first reasonable sounding workaround I've seen for this issue. Most kidiot's won't be willing to wait years to pull their pranks, and if the requirement is that both accounts are really long term it'd solve the problem of someone stuffing a ballot by creating a new account and voting with it before the old one.
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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dan neely wrote: That's the first reasonable sounding workaround I've seen for this issue.
Thank you
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That's an excellent idea. May be the voting should be only available to Bronze and above members. So fake accounts have to have atleast 500 messages before they can vote.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: So fake accounts have to have atleast 500 messages before they can vote.
But in this case, a poster with query got solved by someone, can not vote to reply he statisfied with. Obviously, he would/not be a valid member to vote.
There are many users, who post only when they have queries. And they hardly got to this figure.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: So fake accounts have to have atleast 500 messages before they can vote.
Are u sure??
CP says: Bronze is awarded at the beginning of the first 500 messages posted instead of the end.
L.W.C. Nirosh.
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: May be the voting should be only available to Bronze and above members. So fake accounts have to have atleast 500 messages before they can vote.
This will ensure that you will see 500 crap posts all over CP.
-Prakash
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or create a link where a user can ask for voting permission and moderators can accept or deny his request according to his repo on boards
the link is only available only the user passes certain criteria (like should be a gold member or posted at least some minimum number of messages / articles
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Chris Maunder wrote: The only way of identifying someone on the internet is by IP address,
Well i have not tried it, but this means that I can vote on a post or a article more than one time, one from my office pc and other from home pc and few more times if I use other ISPs, i have about 3 ISPs at home.
-Prakash
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Mr.Prakash wrote: Well i have not tried it, but this means that I can vote on a post or a article more than one time, one from my office pc and other from home pc and few more times if I use other ISPs, i have about 3 ISPs at home.
You can, if you have multiple accounts.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: You can, if you have multiple accounts.
Is that your permission? OK 
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus
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dnh wrote: Is that your permission?
You need CM's and DC's permission - not mine 
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Can we stipulate that voting has to go through a mandatory logon process to restrict only registered members can exercise their voting privileges. Quite similar to our Indian elections where one photo identity is mandatory at Polling Booths. 
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This is already the case
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi I LOVE codeproject !
The only thing that bugs me is you cannot search the articles by score, votes or views!
Just a waste of time going through and finding that top notch article.
Keep up the good work !
Chris 
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We try and rank articles based on keyword relevancy and score. We also figured that sometimes an article may be a little dodgy, but it may be the only article with the exact line of code you are looking for so we've tried to find a balance.
We're still working to improve it, though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Glad to hear that you are still working on improving the CodeProject experience!
The search results work great it's just the sort order.
Could we not just have an option on the result page of our search:
- Sort by "Keyword relevance"
- Sort by "Vote score"
- Sort by "Vote count"
- Sort by "Post date ascending/descending"
- Sort by "Last updated date ascending/descending"
Just a thought, keep up the Great work !
Chris
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Hi everyone!
If you look at the main page, you'll see the "Last 10 Updates".
By default, it shows "C++/MFC" category. The same applies for the full list of last updates.
I think it's quite unfair for all other article authors - site visitors do not see their updates.
?
Best regards,
Dmitry.
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Don't worry, be happy  )
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If you look at the main page, you will see a green menu bar across the top of the page. On the left of that menu bar is a menu that says:
"MFC/C++ C# ASP.NET .NET VB.NET All Topics". Select "All Topics" and you will see all the last ten updates. Select any other option and you will see only the last ten updates in that category.
You may be right
I may be crazy
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Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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