How to make people rate your article!

Pravarakhya

You are my friend...:-D go ahead:laugh: Thanks and Regards, Pravarakhya My Image Processing Article! Rate it!!

Jeff Varszegi

You can create, train, and use a TANU chatbot to rate your articles for you! Each TANU chatbot is trained using a few simple entries. If you and 9 friends create an link (via transitions) about 100 states an hour Monday-Friday for about 20 weeks you will have a collective of 720,000 states. The trick to good AI is quantity. Pick friends who are smart and quick thinkers and who have a diversity of backgrounds. Have all your trainers quickly analyze their states-of-mind from their child hood and go through the years linking and adding states to the collective. ;) On the other hand, you could do it the honorable, time-tested way-- log in as an anonymous poster and create a bunch of bullshit adoring threads on your articles. Sincerely, Jeff Varszegi

Colin Angus Mackay

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar Coming soon: The Second EuroCPian Event

Daniel Turini

As a general rule, increase awareness about your article. Make people know about your article. Link from your website, your blog, give an article link to your friends. DO NOT SPAM IT otherwise you'll see a flood of 1 votes! As a general rule, if your article is not too good, and not too bad, you'll receive a vote for each 500~1000 page views (my SQL Server article receives one vote for 850 views). Your article has the same average. Learn to be patient and wait until people discover about your article. Beginner articles, focused, solid, about important topics, are the ones who receive the most votes and the best feedback. Advanced articles, about complicated things, are the ones which are read by only a few, so receive fewer votes. BTW, Several people will say "I don't care about article voting.". Vote their posts 1 (not their articles, this is evil!) and see how much they really care :-D Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:

Pravarakhya

I think the easier way is to put an ad in your article which looks exactly similar to codeproject article. It reads: "every Rate 5 will fetch you a dollar" Thanks and Regards, Pravarakhya My Image Processing Article! Rate it!!

Nish Nishant

If you want to have a 4.5+ rating after 20+ votes, you'd have to be a really nice guy on the CP forums if you are a regular, or be a total stranger with a nice sounding name. Otherwise however good your article is, someone will dislike you hard enough to give you lower ratings than you deserve. I guess 85%-95% of articles rated between 3 and 5 are about the same standard and quality. But the ones under 3 would be mostly poor ones - I guess only about 20%-25% of sub-3 rated articles would be worth reading. Nish

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wrykyn

I think what Daniel says is right. Beginner articles are more widely read (and rated better since the rookie audience including your truly is happy to get all the help it can and is mightily pleased when it learns something new :) ) More advanced articles are bound to be read by experienced progs and they are more likely to point out improvements, and such. So I don't think you should be too bugged if your article is not rated that high. Its not really an indication of what its worth. " Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill ? "

wrykyn

"On the other hand, you could do it the honorable, time-tested way-- log in as an anonymous poster and create a bunch of bull**** adoring threads on your articles." Didn't someone get caught doing that recently ? Crikey...how embarrasing :-O " Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill ? "

Mauricio Ritter

Xiangyang Liu wrote: Try write a really good or a really bad article. True... heheh Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
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Mauricio Ritter

I don't bother much about rating... I prefer the comments section at the end of the article. Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
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JimRivera

how about adding streaming video of strippers to the article, ill send you a five ;P Discovery consist of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought -- Albert Szent-Györgyi Name the greatest of all the inventors: accident --Mark Twain

Smitha Nishant

You can put a request to the readers at the Conclusion section of your article, to rate your article. Many people justforget to vote. So if you can give them a reminder, that will help! Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach

Pravarakhya

Im not interested in receiving a 4.5+ rating in the first place. What I am interested is how to get people to rate the article and judge it honestly so that the author improvises on that for the next time. The best tip is what I have mentioned and also Smitha has mentioned: request rating in the content itself. Or perhaps, give out a cent to every person who rated the article. Anymore Ideas? Thanks and Regards, Pravarakhya My Image Processing Article! Rate it!!