Deletion of Bookmarks..
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..Or in other words, just rooting out very old stuff I am not really interested in anymore. This, much to my surprise caused my points to go down. wow. really? If that is a true feature can it maybe have some sort of filter like age or something without lowering the points totals :) ....??? (fairly new member so this may have been discussed before, didn't search all that much for possible previous answer sorry).
vbmike
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..Or in other words, just rooting out very old stuff I am not really interested in anymore. This, much to my surprise caused my points to go down. wow. really? If that is a true feature can it maybe have some sort of filter like age or something without lowering the points totals :) ....??? (fairly new member so this may have been discussed before, didn't search all that much for possible previous answer sorry).
vbmike
When you bookmark something you are telling our system "I think this is important" and for that we give you, and the bookmarkee, points. If you change you mind and unbookmark then we remove the points since you're no longer indicating that you want to mark the item as important enough to save. The points you earn for bookmarking are categorised as "Organiser" for a reason ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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..Or in other words, just rooting out very old stuff I am not really interested in anymore. This, much to my surprise caused my points to go down. wow. really? If that is a true feature can it maybe have some sort of filter like age or something without lowering the points totals :) ....??? (fairly new member so this may have been discussed before, didn't search all that much for possible previous answer sorry).
vbmike
Imagine keeping track on your points if it wasn't connected to your current bookmarks. It would also be an extremely easy but boring way to boost your points, just add and remove 1000 bookmarks.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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When you bookmark something you are telling our system "I think this is important" and for that we give you, and the bookmarkee, points. If you change you mind and unbookmark then we remove the points since you're no longer indicating that you want to mark the item as important enough to save. The points you earn for bookmarking are categorised as "Organiser" for a reason ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Imagine keeping track on your points if it wasn't connected to your current bookmarks. It would also be an extremely easy but boring way to boost your points, just add and remove 1000 bookmarks.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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When you bookmark something you are telling our system "I think this is important" and for that we give you, and the bookmarkee, points. If you change you mind and unbookmark then we remove the points since you're no longer indicating that you want to mark the item as important enough to save. The points you earn for bookmarking are categorised as "Organiser" for a reason ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I know that this is an old post, but I found it before I posted the same question (I was clearing out some old bookmarks to stuff that isn't relevant to me and I saw my rep go down) Whilst I am happy to lose my rep points as I no longer want the link, I do think it is a bit unfair on the bookmarkee to lose the points they gained as the article may still be of worth to others. Also if I re-upload code samples will I lose points ;P
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I know that this is an old post, but I found it before I posted the same question (I was clearing out some old bookmarks to stuff that isn't relevant to me and I saw my rep go down) Whilst I am happy to lose my rep points as I no longer want the link, I do think it is a bit unfair on the bookmarkee to lose the points they gained as the article may still be of worth to others. Also if I re-upload code samples will I lose points ;P
Reiss wrote:
I do think it is a bit unfair on the bookmarkee to lose the points
So what happens if someone accidentally bookmarks and then undoes that operation? In situations like this there's the perfect-way-for-a-given-situation and there's the logical-way-that-disregards-some-edge-cases. Unfortunately the consistent, logical way usually results in less confusion and complaints.