Pointless answering a post

eyeseetee

What is the point of me answering a post in the asp.net forum when all I ever get is a 1 rating, just because users want something that they cant have!!:mad:

NormDroid

Pass me the tissues again :((

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Christian Graus

Well, I'd say it happens to me more than you, and i'd say the answer is that while I appreciate the CP MVP, and I liked being a MS MVP, I do it to help people. When people vote me 1 for telling them the truth, they make themselves look stupid. They don't actually hurt me. I find the voting system frustrating, b/c it's becoming more and more that you get 1s for no good reason ( I get 1s for good answers all the time), but I don't let it get to me, or let it change how I answer, any more than being a CP MVP or MS MVP would cause me to answer more or answer differently.

Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

Graham Bradshaw

Christian Graus wrote:

I get 1s for good answers all the time

Of course, it's possible that people are mis-interpreting the numbers. In most cases, '1' means the best (as in first). For example, listing the results of a race, who is listed in position 1? There's cute 'thumbs up' and 'thumbs down' icons, but graphic images are notorious for being misunderstood across cultures (and 2000 years ago, in Roman culture, the thumbs up symbol was an insult). Maybe the numbers should be changed to words 'terrible', 'bad', 'OK', 'Good', 'Excellent' ?

Christian Graus

One says 'good answer' and one says 'bad answer'

Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

Mike Dimmick

Voted up because some idiot voted it down. I'm working through fixing code that's ended up like this because people didn't do root cause analysis when encountering a problem. Instead they just slapped an exception handler around it. And not a specific one either, just catch (Exception). All you can do is tell them the answer and some of the details that led you to that answer. I personally get frustrated with some of the simple questions that indicate that the questioner hasn't bothered to do any research into the topic at all. This tends to be the kind of person who doesn't like it when you tell them that something cannot be done within the framework that they're using.

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eyeseetee

not upset, just angry..

rastaVnuce

Hey... I just got 1ed just because I mentioned Macedonia... guess there's some HELL_ASS gays here :) The point is... why bother? Post ratings make no difference... especially when someone rates your post because he can't comprehend it, or can't deal with it.

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Dalek Dave

rastaVnuce wrote:

some HELL_ASS gays here

They're greek men aren't they? :)

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R Giskard Reventlov

I had stopped for a while then I started again and now I've stopped because I remembered why I stopped before. It wasn't cos of the votes (who gives a shit) it was because most of the time it feels like I'm doing school work for somebody which I really can't be asked to do or because you never get feedback to tell you if your answer was helpful. I wasn't looking for a back slap just 'yes, it hit the right note' or 'no, it was a dumb answer - perhaps you're the one with the problem'. Either way I also get to learn which is what it should be about.

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Pete OHanlon

.netman wrote:

What is the point of me answering a post in the asp.net forum when all I ever get is a 1 rating, just because users want something that they cant have!!

Because you're not so shallow that you're answering questions purely for votes?

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rastaVnuce

They're supposed to be... I've heard rumors and legends that greek men exist... but none that act like a man are found to date :laugh: You know the joke... Greek men invented sex, but Macedonians told them it can be practiced with women! :laugh:

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eyeseetee

Youve missed the point, the whole point of replying to posts is to help other people, when they vote your help 1 out of 5 even if you give them a correct answer you are bound to be a bit annoyed. Its the prinicple more then anything.

Kannan Coder

Why don’t you people avoid these stupid questions? Let them cry and wait for answers with despair mind. They deserve it. The mean time you can answer to more meaningful questions.

Pete OHanlon

I haven't missed the point. I answer a lot of questions, and the vote I get is totally irrelevant. It doesn't bother me one way or the other what vote I get - the only thing that matters is if I can help or not.

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leckey 0

Some of them are good, valid answers. It's just not what the question poster wanted to hear. So they vote down the responder and repost the question.

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Lost User

Christian Graus wrote:

One says 'good answer' and one says 'bad answer'

What's thee difference?

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Lost User

I think that the voting on programming forums should just be restricted to an accepted answer. Either the person asking the question accepts an answer or not; why should anyone else be voting on that. Replies should be possible only to the person who posted the question. I think unlike the Lounge or SB, there is no merit in having a thread go off into many branches that discuss nothing of value to the person who posted the question.