About competition rules and lost enthusiasm
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Dear friends of CodeProject staff, I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments. In march I published the DataGridView filter popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users. The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article. Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic. I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designing the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation. Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules. Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article. Thank you very much V.R.
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Dear friends of CodeProject staff, I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments. In march I published the DataGridView filter popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users. The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article. Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic. I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designing the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation. Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules. Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article. Thank you very much V.R.
Well, I'm glad to see you're concerned about article quality, because otherwise I don't think you would have posted this. There are many good reasons why I post articles here, but the article competition isn't one of them. Reason? Because most of the people voting probably have not - and will never - use the article, and therefore haven't a clue about whether the article is useful or not. Over time, you will get many good comments. Value these, and try to use even the bad comments to improve your articles; the serious members here will notice and appreciate them. I think you know by now that there are many immature members here - don't let these people color your experience. Write for yourself, because you like sharing; for the serious members, because they will appreciate it; and to improve your code, because you will get good comments. The article competitions are CodeProject's version of beauty pageants; they are superficial and largely meaningless. Just ignore them - I do, and I don't vote in them either. I hope you will continue to write the very best articles you can. p.s. The CP admins don't read this forum regularly, so if you really want an answer, you should post in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
Best wishes, Hans
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Well, I'm glad to see you're concerned about article quality, because otherwise I don't think you would have posted this. There are many good reasons why I post articles here, but the article competition isn't one of them. Reason? Because most of the people voting probably have not - and will never - use the article, and therefore haven't a clue about whether the article is useful or not. Over time, you will get many good comments. Value these, and try to use even the bad comments to improve your articles; the serious members here will notice and appreciate them. I think you know by now that there are many immature members here - don't let these people color your experience. Write for yourself, because you like sharing; for the serious members, because they will appreciate it; and to improve your code, because you will get good comments. The article competitions are CodeProject's version of beauty pageants; they are superficial and largely meaningless. Just ignore them - I do, and I don't vote in them either. I hope you will continue to write the very best articles you can. p.s. The CP admins don't read this forum regularly, so if you really want an answer, you should post in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
Best wishes, Hans
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Hans, thank you for your answer. I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. Which is the measure of the usefulness? Feedbacks like comments, votes and, why not, prizes. I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work. That said, I'm surprised to read that a serious site like CodeProject adopt superficial and meaningless beauty pageants. Why? Which is the purpose? I would like one of this three things will be done: - Competition will be removed at all - Competition will become serious, with public rules and prize reasons. - Competition will be explicitelly declared as a facetious roulette game. I will follow your suggestion, posting my doubts in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum. thank you again Vin
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Hans, thank you for your answer. I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. Which is the measure of the usefulness? Feedbacks like comments, votes and, why not, prizes. I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work. That said, I'm surprised to read that a serious site like CodeProject adopt superficial and meaningless beauty pageants. Why? Which is the purpose? I would like one of this three things will be done: - Competition will be removed at all - Competition will become serious, with public rules and prize reasons. - Competition will be explicitelly declared as a facetious roulette game. I will follow your suggestion, posting my doubts in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum. thank you again Vin
Try to look past the superficial. Take the long view; in the end, the serious members will give your articles the votes they deserve. You will only make yourself unhappy to expect anything else. I wish you the best of luck.
Best wishes, Hans
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Try to look past the superficial. Take the long view; in the end, the serious members will give your articles the votes they deserve. You will only make yourself unhappy to expect anything else. I wish you the best of luck.
Best wishes, Hans
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Hans, thank you. you're right. Vin