Unnecessary down votes [modified]
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That sure is harmless, but please keep in mind a number of people around here don't like text speak nor sloppy spelling. IMO not many would downvote for such reasons, unless it was a programming question showing a total lack of care to both content and style. I glanced at your recent message list and saw nothing extraordinary as far as scores go, except for the one here that is. I guess poll messages are visited by a huge number of people, much more so than anything else in the forums. So I can only suggest you move on; AFAICT it will be completely forgotten in a few days, activity here slows down as the week progresses, and there will be another poll next Monday. :beer:
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3thanks luc actually every time someone upvote me (like you did just now), The exact no. of -16 votes pops up in my reputation points to balance that upvote. If a person cannot vote multiple times, i really wonder how come exact no of different people come and downvote me every time. Anyways moving on as you said... ;) cheers!
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thanks luc actually every time someone upvote me (like you did just now), The exact no. of -16 votes pops up in my reputation points to balance that upvote. If a person cannot vote multiple times, i really wonder how come exact no of different people come and downvote me every time. Anyways moving on as you said... ;) cheers!
As I said votes are weighted, so in a programming forum, when I upvote an answer, it gets 40 points as an answer upvote is worth 5 points, but with platinum Authority my weight would be 8 (4 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for white/bronze). In the rep history page, it would show up as "Programming Forum Message Upvoted", 40, Authority. In the score, it would raise the floating-point number, and it would increment the vote count shown by 1 (not by the weight!). I don't know the exact details for messages in the poll; would be not 5 but somewhat less, maybe 2. And might be Debator color, or Participant color, I just don't know, not all the details are documented in the FAQ. If you suspect there is a bug in the rep system, you might take a screen shot of your rep history page, and e-mail that to Chris, he can be reached at chris(at)codeproject(dot)com. Make sure you add a reference to this thread, as well as to your message that started all this. :)
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get.
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thanks luc actually every time someone upvote me (like you did just now), The exact no. of -16 votes pops up in my reputation points to balance that upvote. If a person cannot vote multiple times, i really wonder how come exact no of different people come and downvote me every time. Anyways moving on as you said... ;) cheers!
Here's a 5 :cool:
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Someone is downvoting me 50-60 points everyday for the first message i posted in the poll... I am already 300+ points down because of that post :wtf: who so ever is doing that can you please come forward and explain what are your grudges against me. if i said 'i voted first' what's a big deal in that ?? :doh: -- Modified Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:46 PM
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Someone is downvoting me 50-60 points everyday for the first message i posted in the poll... I am already 300+ points down because of that post :wtf: who so ever is doing that can you please come forward and explain what are your grudges against me. if i said 'i voted first' what's a big deal in that ?? :doh: -- Modified Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:46 PM
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I got more then 20 -16s and lots of -4s and -2s only one person (dan) came forward and openly said he didn't like the post. remaining no idea :confused:
i just gave you a bunch of points, don't sweat the small stuff... keep contributing! :-D
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Someone is downvoting me 50-60 points everyday for the first message i posted in the poll... I am already 300+ points down because of that post :wtf: who so ever is doing that can you please come forward and explain what are your grudges against me. if i said 'i voted first' what's a big deal in that ?? :doh: -- Modified Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:46 PM
Keep your head down and your mouth shut when this happens: bleating on about it will only bring more down voting and people do it because they can so man-up, shut up and move on.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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Keep your head down and your mouth shut when this happens: bleating on about it will only bring more down voting and people do it because they can so man-up, shut up and move on.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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i just gave you a bunch of points, don't sweat the small stuff... keep contributing! :-D
Is shouting "first" really contributing anything? Lots of message boards get overrun with this, OK its a minor annoyance, but if I ever did that here I'd strongly expect to get downvoted. Some individuals seem to regard this as some kind of competitive sport. Some other people get a kick out of posting the millionth message to a board. Not naming names ;-) (ps. I wasn't one of the downvoters - I don't go in for doing such things anonymously personally).
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thanks luc actually every time someone upvote me (like you did just now), The exact no. of -16 votes pops up in my reputation points to balance that upvote. If a person cannot vote multiple times, i really wonder how come exact no of different people come and downvote me every time. Anyways moving on as you said... ;) cheers!
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Someone is downvoting me 50-60 points everyday for the first message i posted in the poll... I am already 300+ points down because of that post :wtf: who so ever is doing that can you please come forward and explain what are your grudges against me. if i said 'i voted first' what's a big deal in that ?? :doh: -- Modified Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:46 PM
I have posted stuff here that has been voted down more times than I care to think about. It is all part of the game. You are going to have to get thicker skin if this is really bothering you. The downvoting will die down and the water will be still in no time at all....Take a deep breath, in with the good - out with the bad. :) I think you realize now that when someone says "I voted first" it is not received very well here because it "comes off" as something a 12 year old would post...it's annoying. -- Just a thought. ;)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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I got more then 20 -16s and lots of -4s and -2s only one person (dan) came forward and openly said he didn't like the post. remaining no idea :confused:
Slacker007[^] and viaducting[^] have also explained their reasoning. You're free to delete your post to stop the down votes...
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