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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio has dropped considerably. But consider that the CP population was initially mature professionals. CP is now approaching the 2M mark, and the original population is necessarily being diluted with people looking for quick answers to their homework and unwilling to contribute. I don't care about the lurkers, or the anonymous posters, or people who give a 1 without explanation. What I do care about are the people who leave comments and try to be constructive. As long as there are still some of these people left on CP, I will continue to be here.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio has dropped considerably. But consider that the CP population was initially mature professionals. CP is now approaching the 2M mark, and the original population is necessarily being diluted with people looking for quick answers to their homework and unwilling to contribute. I don't care about the lurkers, or the anonymous posters, or people who give a 1 without explanation. What I do care about are the people who leave comments and try to be constructive. As long as there are still some of these people left on CP, I will continue to be here.
Hans Dietrich wrote: I don't care about the lurkers, or the anonymous posters, or people who give a 1 without explanation. What I do care about are the people who leave comments and try to be constructive. As long as there are still some of these people left on CP, I will continue to be here. Bravo. My sentiments exactly. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg
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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
They probably expected a source code download to play with... :cool: (I was genuinely interested, but bored after reading 5 minutes) Thanks for posting, anyway.
Pandoras Gift #44: Hope. The one that keeps you on suffering.
aber.. "Wie gesagt, der Scheiss is' Therapie"
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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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They probably expected a source code download to play with... :cool: (I was genuinely interested, but bored after reading 5 minutes) Thanks for posting, anyway.
Pandoras Gift #44: Hope. The one that keeps you on suffering.
aber.. "Wie gesagt, der Scheiss is' Therapie"
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygenThere was no way I could have posted comprehensive debugged source code for that article. It took me almost two hours just to prune out our app-specific code come up with the text I put in the article while trying to make it generic enough to be used in other apps. I simply didn't have the time to come up with an example data file from which to load menu items, not to mention write/debug code in a whole new app for something that tedius (as opposed to complex). Besides, everyone has their own way of storing data, and it's impossible to attach an oracle schema to an article. When the article warrants source and demo, I add it. In this particular case, it wasn't warranted. If you were truly "genuinely interested" in the article, you wouldn't have become bored. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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I agree, there are 1 votes for no reason :( P.S. Giving you a 5 for this. The tigress is here :-D
The 1's in forum posts don't bother me at all (if my posts weren't being voted 1's I would feel that my limited yet rabid fanbase would be truly dissappointed), but when they carry that crap over to articles, that's just plain BS. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio has dropped considerably. But consider that the CP population was initially mature professionals. CP is now approaching the 2M mark, and the original population is necessarily being diluted with people looking for quick answers to their homework and unwilling to contribute. I don't care about the lurkers, or the anonymous posters, or people who give a 1 without explanation. What I do care about are the people who leave comments and try to be constructive. As long as there are still some of these people left on CP, I will continue to be here.
maybe anonymous posters should be allowed to vote articles (since they can't download the code anyway, right Chris?). ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... That's good that you care enough about the problem to improve the quality of the average cp user by going that route! ;P I'm not so sure there is a political reason for it, I think it's more to do with how many shiny pictures there are. It's almost a lock that you will get highly rated if you have nice shiny pictures and diagrams whatever the article is actually about.
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." - Ambrose Bierce
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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. If you don't want readers of your article voting on their reaction to your politics then why don't you simply leave your politics out of the article. Steve T
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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. There is always a possibility that the voters think your article lacks technical merit or it sucks more than your politics. ;P Disclaimer: I never read or voted on your articles.
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It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
I couldn't agree more. After I disagreed with someone over politics here in the lounge over a year ago, all of a sudden I got a flurry of 1 votes on all my articles. That ended my article writing for codeproject completely. It's unfortunate, but its the downside to the anonymous voting. Personally I think voting shouldn't be anonymous.
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I couldn't agree more. After I disagreed with someone over politics here in the lounge over a year ago, all of a sudden I got a flurry of 1 votes on all my articles. That ended my article writing for codeproject completely. It's unfortunate, but its the downside to the anonymous voting. Personally I think voting shouldn't be anonymous.
But I suspect you didn't hang out a deliberately antagonistic political statement on the end of every article you wrote. I can't understand why John Simmons does that then expects people to ignore it when rating the article. Steve T
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This is one of the primary reasons I don't hang out here as much as I used to... That's good that you care enough about the problem to improve the quality of the average cp user by going that route! ;P I'm not so sure there is a political reason for it, I think it's more to do with how many shiny pictures there are. It's almost a lock that you will get highly rated if you have nice shiny pictures and diagrams whatever the article is actually about.
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." - Ambrose Bierce
What's really funny is that I submitted another article this morning (or at least tried to), and something is borked up with the Submission Wizard which prevented the source code zip upload from happening correctly. It's even mentioned in the article message threads. Still, some folks are marking the article down. Why? Whio the fuck knows? My guess is that they've got a single eyebrow running across their sloped foreheads and their only form of communication comes in the form of grunts, clicks and whistles when they see something they think looks like good VB code. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. The quality of your typical CP user sure has gone down the dumper in the last couple of years. If you don't want readers of your article voting on their reaction to your politics then why don't you simply leave your politics out of the article. Steve T
*I* didn't put my profile there - it's an automatic function of the site. Why don't you learn more about your surroundings before spouting off? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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But I suspect you didn't hang out a deliberately antagonistic political statement on the end of every article you wrote. I can't understand why John Simmons does that then expects people to ignore it when rating the article. Steve T
Mine's been there for years. The only people that seem to count that as part of the actual article are people that are nurturing their one and only brain cell and hoping for a miracle of some sort that will cause it to somehow replicate itself to the point where they can understand single-syllable words or even recognize rudimentary shapes and colors. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's really pathetic when people vote on articles based on their politics instead of the technical merit of the article. There is always a possibility that the voters think your article lacks technical merit or it sucks more than your politics. ;P Disclaimer: I never read or voted on your articles.
Believe it or not, that wouldn't bother me. But what's happening is just pathetic. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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*I* didn't put my profile there - it's an automatic function of the site. Why don't you learn more about your surroundings before spouting off? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: *I* didn't put my profile there - it's an automatic function of the site. Why don't you learn more about your surroundings before spouting off? Actually I already know how the site funtions. And since you do too then you knew that an offensive profile would be appended to every article you wrote so don't try to pretend it appears there without your knowledge or consent. Like I said. If you don't want a politically motivated response to your article leave politics out off the article page. Otherwise suck it up and stop whimpering. Steve T
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Mine's been there for years. The only people that seem to count that as part of the actual article are people that are nurturing their one and only brain cell and hoping for a miracle of some sort that will cause it to somehow replicate itself to the point where they can understand single-syllable words or even recognize rudimentary shapes and colors. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Mine's been there for years. The only people that seem to count that as part of the actual article are people that are nurturing their one and only brain cell and hoping for a miracle of some sort that will cause it to somehow replicate itself to the point where they can understand single-syllable words or even recognize rudimentary shapes and colors. Seems to me like someone with more than one brain cell would realise that any inflamatory text he places on a page, whether part of the article or not, will cause a negative reaction in some readers, with any number of brain cells, which readers may choose to respond by clicking "1" and hitting where it hurts: in your over inflated ego. Steve T
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But I suspect you didn't hang out a deliberately antagonistic political statement on the end of every article you wrote. I can't understand why John Simmons does that then expects people to ignore it when rating the article. Steve T
indeed, I don't mix the two.
