Article competition - question
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Hi CodeProject people, May I ask which is the rule for selecting whether an article should be included in the article competition for a given month? I had posted an article called Statistics Workbench[^] in the C# section, which I thought had received enough positive feedback (in terms of votings, bookmarks and download counts) to have been at least selected between the top 10 for the month of May. This is not a rant or a complaint, but I would like to know better what is the criteria that allows an article to be selected or not. Can please someone shed some light on how articles are selected for the competition? Thanks! Best regards, Cesar
Machine Learning, Image and Signal Processing for .NET - The Accord.NET Framework.
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Hi CodeProject people, May I ask which is the rule for selecting whether an article should be included in the article competition for a given month? I had posted an article called Statistics Workbench[^] in the C# section, which I thought had received enough positive feedback (in terms of votings, bookmarks and download counts) to have been at least selected between the top 10 for the month of May. This is not a rant or a complaint, but I would like to know better what is the criteria that allows an article to be selected or not. Can please someone shed some light on how articles are selected for the competition? Thanks! Best regards, Cesar
Machine Learning, Image and Signal Processing for .NET - The Accord.NET Framework.
The secret is just choosing the right tags, and beating everyone else's rating who also has a tag for that month.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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The secret is just choosing the right tags, and beating everyone else's rating who also has a tag for that month.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
Thanks for the answer, Sean! So it means that only the rating is taken into account? If that is the case, then I suppose someone could post an article at the last minute of the month and vote himself a five. Then it would have higher chances to be in the top 10 for that month than an article posted in the first day of the month, which got much more visibility, but as well more chance to have received votes of 4 just because it was exposed for more time. For example, how would an article that received 10 votes of 5 (thus averaging 5.00) be compared against another that received 1000 votes of 5 and 1 vote of 4 (thus averaging somewhere around 4.99)? Would the first be ranked better than the second, or is there some correction applied to this situation? Best regards, Cesar
Machine Learning, Image and Signal Processing for .NET - The Accord.NET Framework.
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Thanks for the answer, Sean! So it means that only the rating is taken into account? If that is the case, then I suppose someone could post an article at the last minute of the month and vote himself a five. Then it would have higher chances to be in the top 10 for that month than an article posted in the first day of the month, which got much more visibility, but as well more chance to have received votes of 4 just because it was exposed for more time. For example, how would an article that received 10 votes of 5 (thus averaging 5.00) be compared against another that received 1000 votes of 5 and 1 vote of 4 (thus averaging somewhere around 4.99)? Would the first be ranked better than the second, or is there some correction applied to this situation? Best regards, Cesar
Machine Learning, Image and Signal Processing for .NET - The Accord.NET Framework.
Chris touched the rating algorithm recently I thought, but that might have been only for very specific scenarios. Here is the calculation: Code Project Rating and Reputation FAQ[^] You must consider the popularity of the competition as well. There's a lot of C# related articles on CodeProject. I'm going to unofficially call it "The Big Leagues." You find a lot of top authors there and a lot of the best articles, perhaps because that's where most articles and authors go. Web Dev is also a fierce competition.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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Hi CodeProject people, May I ask which is the rule for selecting whether an article should be included in the article competition for a given month? I had posted an article called Statistics Workbench[^] in the C# section, which I thought had received enough positive feedback (in terms of votings, bookmarks and download counts) to have been at least selected between the top 10 for the month of May. This is not a rant or a complaint, but I would like to know better what is the criteria that allows an article to be selected or not. Can please someone shed some light on how articles are selected for the competition? Thanks! Best regards, Cesar
Machine Learning, Image and Signal Processing for .NET - The Accord.NET Framework.
Your article is storming ahead in the Database category[^].
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Your article is storming ahead in the Database category[^].
How could I miss that :-D Thanks for the answers Sean, and thanks for pointing out that my article was in the Database section, Pete! I hadn't even thought about looking there, but I guess it makes lots of sense since it was mostly about interpreting and extracting information from tabular data. Thanks! Best regards, Cesar
Machine Learning, Image and Signal Processing for .NET - The Accord.NET Framework.