Is it common to get no rating on new articles?
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Well, I viewed it and thought it a good article. I swear by VSS and while the VS6 integration is pretty simple, I've also had to do all manner of stuff with the command line too. Why didn't I vote? I really don't know. Sometimes I'm just plain lazy. :) But anyway give your self a nice pat on the back. You deserve that at least. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Remember that in Texas, Gun Control is hitting what you aim at. [Richard Stringer] Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]
I guess I've still got the "needing peer approval" problem ... it's funny, I know the better you get, the less you need the pats on the back, because you know your own strength and no one can convince you otherwise. I like to phrase it as "I don't have a frame of reference." Thanks for looking it over.
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You'll probably get better answers from one of the platinum crew, but here's my experience/observation: there are a few articles that are obviously a cut above everything else, or have code/tools that are useful to a great many readers - those get voted up immediately. Then there are articles that are so obviously bad or clearly redundant taht they get voted down immediately. The rest fit into a wide variety of niches, and depending on how many people with that niche interest are reading on any given day, you'll get more/less attention.
Thank you for responding - I think that's an excellent way to put it. All I was hoping for was not to be in the "so obviously bad" category ;-).
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Thank you for responding - I think that's an excellent way to put it. All I was hoping for was not to be in the "so obviously bad" category ;-).
Naw, you did a good job. I have no use for the article at present, but it's filed away for a time when i might - those are the meat and potato articles. :)
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I posted a while back here, asking about "if I should" post an article on CodeProject, and I got a lot of great responses. I just posted my first article, Visual Source Safe 6.0 Recursive Rollback[^] yesterday. There has been a whopping 447 views, which is a lot, as far as I'm concerned; however, there are no comments and no one has rated the article. Is this common? I know my article is long ....very long.... and I myself would not read a long article unless I was interested in the subject, and do not want to rate an article unless I really read it. Plus this is a topic about Visual Source Safe, which can't be too popular ;-). Any suggestions? Thanks as always - I always find great help here.
Susan Hernandez wrote: Any suggestions? Uhm, you could try posting about the article on the Lounge and include an URL and - oops, you've already done that now, haven't you? Sorry - no other suggestion that I can think of right now :-D
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Susan Hernandez wrote: Any suggestions? Uhm, you could try posting about the article on the Lounge and include an URL and - oops, you've already done that now, haven't you? Sorry - no other suggestion that I can think of right now :-D
:doh: EEK :-O I guess I can't dispute that! :-D
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I posted a while back here, asking about "if I should" post an article on CodeProject, and I got a lot of great responses. I just posted my first article, Visual Source Safe 6.0 Recursive Rollback[^] yesterday. There has been a whopping 447 views, which is a lot, as far as I'm concerned; however, there are no comments and no one has rated the article. Is this common? I know my article is long ....very long.... and I myself would not read a long article unless I was interested in the subject, and do not want to rate an article unless I really read it. Plus this is a topic about Visual Source Safe, which can't be too popular ;-). Any suggestions? Thanks as always - I always find great help here.
Susan Hernandez wrote: Is this common? That depends. Ratings are very subjective and mean the most to those who do the rating, not those who are being rated. I've read hundreds of articles but have rated none of them.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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I posted a while back here, asking about "if I should" post an article on CodeProject, and I got a lot of great responses. I just posted my first article, Visual Source Safe 6.0 Recursive Rollback[^] yesterday. There has been a whopping 447 views, which is a lot, as far as I'm concerned; however, there are no comments and no one has rated the article. Is this common? I know my article is long ....very long.... and I myself would not read a long article unless I was interested in the subject, and do not want to rate an article unless I really read it. Plus this is a topic about Visual Source Safe, which can't be too popular ;-). Any suggestions? Thanks as always - I always find great help here.
Susan Hernandez wrote: Is this common? Gads, I didn't even notice because I haven't been around much! Two things--the Latest 10 articles cycles so fast, you sometimes have to be checking CP hourly. Especially when the editors do a rash of updates. Second, 447 views isn't a lot. Not with 2 million subscribers, 20 million viewers, and 200 million web crawlers (ok, I made up the last two numbers). :) You should have upwards of several thousand in a week or so, I would think. From experience, many people wait until the newsletter and then see what's been going on. As to no votes, well, Nish said it best. :-D And congrats!!! It looks great! Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface
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Susan Hernandez wrote: Is this common? Gads, I didn't even notice because I haven't been around much! Two things--the Latest 10 articles cycles so fast, you sometimes have to be checking CP hourly. Especially when the editors do a rash of updates. Second, 447 views isn't a lot. Not with 2 million subscribers, 20 million viewers, and 200 million web crawlers (ok, I made up the last two numbers). :) You should have upwards of several thousand in a week or so, I would think. From experience, many people wait until the newsletter and then see what's been going on. As to no votes, well, Nish said it best. :-D And congrats!!! It looks great! Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface
Hey thanks!! I jumped the gun a little (a lot?) on asking, I totally forgot about the newsletter. I had subscribed to the RSS feed, so I don't even pay attention to the newsletter any more; but before the feed, the newsletter was the only way I knew of new And thanks again for your help on this.
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Hey thanks!! I jumped the gun a little (a lot?) on asking, I totally forgot about the newsletter. I had subscribed to the RSS feed, so I don't even pay attention to the newsletter any more; but before the feed, the newsletter was the only way I knew of new And thanks again for your help on this.
Susan Hernandez wrote: I had subscribed to the RSS feed, Ha! And I had forgotten about the RSS feed! :-D Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface
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I posted a while back here, asking about "if I should" post an article on CodeProject, and I got a lot of great responses. I just posted my first article, Visual Source Safe 6.0 Recursive Rollback[^] yesterday. There has been a whopping 447 views, which is a lot, as far as I'm concerned; however, there are no comments and no one has rated the article. Is this common? I know my article is long ....very long.... and I myself would not read a long article unless I was interested in the subject, and do not want to rate an article unless I really read it. Plus this is a topic about Visual Source Safe, which can't be too popular ;-). Any suggestions? Thanks as always - I always find great help here.
Patience, grasshopper. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Patience, grasshopper. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Yea, I totally jumped the gun. I guess I didn't take my meds last night. Or is it that I took twice the dose...
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Hey thanks!! I jumped the gun a little (a lot?) on asking, I totally forgot about the newsletter. I had subscribed to the RSS feed, so I don't even pay attention to the newsletter any more; but before the feed, the newsletter was the only way I knew of new And thanks again for your help on this.
Susan Hernandez wrote: but before the feed, the newsletter was the only way I knew of new I don't really use the feed - it fills up too fast and I found I never really read it. The newsletter, I do read. Most of the new articles that I read are from links in the newsletter - although having said that I've not really been getting much past Chris' introduction lately. :-O
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