About competition rules
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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: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF[^] 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 designating 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. I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. 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. 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: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF[^] 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 designating 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. I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. 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. 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.
Winners are chosen by the readers, not by us. I've updated the rules on the Monthly comp page[^] to make this clearer (they should appear in half an hour or so)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Winners are chosen by the readers, not by us. I've updated the rules on the Monthly comp page[^] to make this clearer (they should appear in half an hour or so)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I agree with you, Vincenzo; competitions rule is not clear. Also, you know that with a server at hands, you can receive messages that you are not permitted to see a public page, you can have postings mixed in any way against you, and many more; also, sometimes claiming for being a winner and writing about a programmer's difficult life might lead to win a competition with a non technical article. Life is not soft...
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