Banishing snipers
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It seems to me the site needs some way to flag people who offer no useful input but simply snipe at other people postings (eg Paresh Gheewala). All he does is vote 1 on all manner of articles that he clearly doesn't understand. The big problem with this is that if he (or someone like him) is the person to vote on your article then it ends up in Code Project obscurity... after all, I know I don't tend to read articles with a rating of 1. Perhaps people who only ever vote 1 should be flagged to admins,.. also perhaps it should force a low voter to make a comment so that the article writer gets some feedback and the chance to make changes and or respond. Just a thought. Cheers, Paul
Paul Coldrey http://www.lumient.com.au/
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It seems to me the site needs some way to flag people who offer no useful input but simply snipe at other people postings (eg Paresh Gheewala). All he does is vote 1 on all manner of articles that he clearly doesn't understand. The big problem with this is that if he (or someone like him) is the person to vote on your article then it ends up in Code Project obscurity... after all, I know I don't tend to read articles with a rating of 1. Perhaps people who only ever vote 1 should be flagged to admins,.. also perhaps it should force a low voter to make a comment so that the article writer gets some feedback and the chance to make changes and or respond. Just a thought. Cheers, Paul
Paul Coldrey http://www.lumient.com.au/
Paul Coldrey wrote:
It seems to me the site needs some way to flag people
Yes, we do need that, and the good news is, you have just used it.
Best wishes, Hans
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It seems to me the site needs some way to flag people who offer no useful input but simply snipe at other people postings (eg Paresh Gheewala). All he does is vote 1 on all manner of articles that he clearly doesn't understand. The big problem with this is that if he (or someone like him) is the person to vote on your article then it ends up in Code Project obscurity... after all, I know I don't tend to read articles with a rating of 1. Perhaps people who only ever vote 1 should be flagged to admins,.. also perhaps it should force a low voter to make a comment so that the article writer gets some feedback and the chance to make changes and or respond. Just a thought. Cheers, Paul
Paul Coldrey http://www.lumient.com.au/
We do have systems in place to try and spot these but people who vote 1's also vote 5's. If someone votes 1 then you can vote on their voting message and vote to remove their message. Removing their message will remove the vote. So you've got the power to undo this kind of abuse.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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We do have systems in place to try and spot these but people who vote 1's also vote 5's. If someone votes 1 then you can vote on their voting message and vote to remove their message. Removing their message will remove the vote. So you've got the power to undo this kind of abuse.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Cool - Nice work guys. I remember a while back one of my articles got a 1 vote and there was no message. I have no problem with 1 votes but I figured it was pretty uncool to vote 1 and not even say why,.. doesn't give the author much chance to address the issues. Anyhoo, if a message is now required then it sounds like the whole problem is sorted. Thanks for running such a great site - keep up the good work :-).
Paul Coldrey http://www.lumient.com.au/