Unjustified '1's?
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It seems to me that some articles get '1' votes unfairly. Just an opinion, OK? When I see an article with a bunch of 5s, a few 1s and nothing in between (and no comments), it makes me wonder. I SUSPECT that some members cast a lot of '1' votes for "less than honorable" reasons. Possibly out of spite or to lower the average relative to their own articles. I don't have any hard evidence, just a suspicion, but I wonder if anybody else has the same suspicion. Does (or could) CodeProject attempt to detect members who vote mostly 1s? Maybe review some of the articles these people are voting on to see if there is any apparent justification or explanation? Maybe send them a gentle message suggesting they provide a comment when voting 1 on an article so the author can do better next time?
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It seems to me that some articles get '1' votes unfairly. Just an opinion, OK? When I see an article with a bunch of 5s, a few 1s and nothing in between (and no comments), it makes me wonder. I SUSPECT that some members cast a lot of '1' votes for "less than honorable" reasons. Possibly out of spite or to lower the average relative to their own articles. I don't have any hard evidence, just a suspicion, but I wonder if anybody else has the same suspicion. Does (or could) CodeProject attempt to detect members who vote mostly 1s? Maybe review some of the articles these people are voting on to see if there is any apparent justification or explanation? Maybe send them a gentle message suggesting they provide a comment when voting 1 on an article so the author can do better next time?
MarkLTX wrote:
Does (or could) CodeProject attempt to detect members who vote mostly 1s
Yes.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It seems to me that some articles get '1' votes unfairly. Just an opinion, OK? When I see an article with a bunch of 5s, a few 1s and nothing in between (and no comments), it makes me wonder. I SUSPECT that some members cast a lot of '1' votes for "less than honorable" reasons. Possibly out of spite or to lower the average relative to their own articles. I don't have any hard evidence, just a suspicion, but I wonder if anybody else has the same suspicion. Does (or could) CodeProject attempt to detect members who vote mostly 1s? Maybe review some of the articles these people are voting on to see if there is any apparent justification or explanation? Maybe send them a gentle message suggesting they provide a comment when voting 1 on an article so the author can do better next time?
MarkLTX wrote:
they provide a comment
It should rather read as they HAVE TO provide a comment
TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR STAND.Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson -
MarkLTX wrote:
they provide a comment
It should rather read as they HAVE TO provide a comment
TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR STAND.Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis LevinsonThe problem is, who's going to police/moderate that? That's a big job, considering the number of articles that are already posted on CP. I think every one of my articles have been 1-voted for other than justifiable reasons.
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MarkLTX wrote:
they provide a comment
It should rather read as they HAVE TO provide a comment
TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR STAND.Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis LevinsonVasudevan Deepak K wrote:
they HAVE TO provide a comment TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR STAND.
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It seems to me that some articles get '1' votes unfairly. Just an opinion, OK? When I see an article with a bunch of 5s, a few 1s and nothing in between (and no comments), it makes me wonder. I SUSPECT that some members cast a lot of '1' votes for "less than honorable" reasons. Possibly out of spite or to lower the average relative to their own articles. I don't have any hard evidence, just a suspicion, but I wonder if anybody else has the same suspicion. Does (or could) CodeProject attempt to detect members who vote mostly 1s? Maybe review some of the articles these people are voting on to see if there is any apparent justification or explanation? Maybe send them a gentle message suggesting they provide a comment when voting 1 on an article so the author can do better next time?
MarkLTX wrote:
When I see an article with a bunch of 5s, a few 1s and nothing in between (and no comments), it makes me wonder.
I think the voiting graphs help. When you see a scooped out shape to the graph, lots of 5s, a few 4s, and the rest 2s and 1s (probably more 1s than 2s), it speaks for itself, i.e. the article has been recognized as having a lot of qualities by many members, but a few disgruntled or jealous voters have voted 1 out of spite. I suppose you could give them a benefit of a doubt and say that they may have voted honestly, but in some cases only a jerk would vote 1 for an article that is obvioulsy good.
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MarkLTX wrote:
they provide a comment
It should rather read as they HAVE TO provide a comment
TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR STAND.Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
