This article about Linear PRNG got 2 downvotes of one
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[Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5368078/Reverse-engineering-Linear-PRNG-with-Exploratory-S) The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
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[Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5368078/Reverse-engineering-Linear-PRNG-with-Exploratory-S) The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
This crops up from time to time. It was tried, and it failed.
Article Voting: The dangers of all-good news - Chris Maunder - Professional Profile[^]:
Starting today we're removing a barrier on down-voting. You are no longer forced to provide a comment when down-voting.
Basically, if you force users to provide a reason for a down-vote, then they won't down-vote anything for fear of "revenge votes" from the author and his friends. So we ended up with exceptionally poor articles being ranked very highly, not because they were any good, but because the author had a lot of friends (or possibly sock-puppet accounts). There are mechanisms in place to counter stray down-votes. And if you think you've found a case of someone abusing the system, you can always ask the hamsters to investigate.
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[Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5368078/Reverse-engineering-Linear-PRNG-with-Exploratory-S) The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
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M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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[Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5368078/Reverse-engineering-Linear-PRNG-with-Exploratory-S) The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
Additionally to what Richard said, we had a lot of "mega usefull" messages providing "reasons" for the one-vote as the one I just posted before this
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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[Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5368078/Reverse-engineering-Linear-PRNG-with-Exploratory-S) The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
The likely reason for the 1-votes are the maths: a lot of "casual readers" will look at that and just downvote because they want to just copy'n'paste and go. Maths scares them because it implies they have to think, and a large chunk of readership just doesn't want to do that. If the subject interests you, read it - and make up your own mind. Then you can vote appropriately! :-D
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[Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5368078/Reverse-engineering-Linear-PRNG-with-Exploratory-S) The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
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