Why this article Deleted?
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Basic C# OOP Concept[^] it was best C# Article of November 2014 (First Prize),then why it was deleted? :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
Born To Learn
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Basic C# OOP Concept[^] it was best C# Article of November 2014 (First Prize),then why it was deleted? :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
Born To Learn
There have been several issues with this author. He has already deleted articles once as a result of several negative votes on an extremely poor article. This may be another case where he has removed an article. A word of warning. A best article award isn't always a guarantee of quality. There have been cases of authors getting their colleagues to upvote their articles - I'm not saying this was necessarily the case here, but it does happen. Sometimes, absolutely superb articles miss out to very poor articles precisely because of this.
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Basic C# OOP Concept[^] it was best C# Article of November 2014 (First Prize),then why it was deleted? :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
Born To Learn
To addition - it happened that a 'best article' was plagiarised, but we found it only months after...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There have been several issues with this author. He has already deleted articles once as a result of several negative votes on an extremely poor article. This may be another case where he has removed an article. A word of warning. A best article award isn't always a guarantee of quality. There have been cases of authors getting their colleagues to upvote their articles - I'm not saying this was necessarily the case here, but it does happen. Sometimes, absolutely superb articles miss out to very poor articles precisely because of this.
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A best article award isn't always a guarantee of quality
:) :) i like this.
Born To Learn
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To addition - it happened that a 'best article' was plagiarised, but we found it only months after...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Thank you :)
Born To Learn
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There have been several issues with this author. He has already deleted articles once as a result of several negative votes on an extremely poor article. This may be another case where he has removed an article. A word of warning. A best article award isn't always a guarantee of quality. There have been cases of authors getting their colleagues to upvote their articles - I'm not saying this was necessarily the case here, but it does happen. Sometimes, absolutely superb articles miss out to very poor articles precisely because of this.
You know, I have wondered about some of the articles and how they won but I have to tell you as an infrequent, somewhat lazy visitor, I tend to want to take for gospel that an article I pull up that has won something will of course be a good and noteworthy article. That the content will be good and it's guidance in coding or whatever worthy of using in something I am working on. This is a little unnerving to think that an article can make it past some sort of check or double-check system? Maybe you don't have that in place? Sad to think that just because votes drive the winner that a bad article can win prizes and praise? It's not really that simple is it? I do have enough discernment to not take an article and just use it's suggestions if it doesn't sound right to me but there has to be quality assurance at some level. Sure takes away from the credibility of the site in my mind at some level. I mean the overarching idea is to guide and teach people right. Maybe change the award to most popular or something may be more appropriate in some cases. Thanks.
vbmike
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You know, I have wondered about some of the articles and how they won but I have to tell you as an infrequent, somewhat lazy visitor, I tend to want to take for gospel that an article I pull up that has won something will of course be a good and noteworthy article. That the content will be good and it's guidance in coding or whatever worthy of using in something I am working on. This is a little unnerving to think that an article can make it past some sort of check or double-check system? Maybe you don't have that in place? Sad to think that just because votes drive the winner that a bad article can win prizes and praise? It's not really that simple is it? I do have enough discernment to not take an article and just use it's suggestions if it doesn't sound right to me but there has to be quality assurance at some level. Sure takes away from the credibility of the site in my mind at some level. I mean the overarching idea is to guide and teach people right. Maybe change the award to most popular or something may be more appropriate in some cases. Thanks.
vbmike
There was a certain historical trend in play until quite recently. Basically, there was a weighting put in to the votes so that a small number of downvotes could be ignored if there were an overwhelming number of good votes. The algorithm here has been tweaked so that the sites heavy hitters votes aren't as easily filtered out so, if you get 100 low rep people voting 5 for an article and 5 of the site "superstars" voting 1 then the average would be dragged down appropriately. As the popularity of an article is the indicator of which articles make it into the competition, this means that there has been a certain correction put in place now to remove the worst excesses from the voting process.
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A best article award isn't always a guarantee of quality
:) :) i like this.
Born To Learn
Oscars, anyone?
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