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Its not *entirely* useless. It only becomes useless when you have childish games being played with it. Unfortunately that usually happens when you have new authors posting. Take Michael Dunn's articles for an example; most of his are highly rated and they deserve it. The really bad part is that I don't need a rating to know whether his articles are good; because I know they will be :) James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile. And every day we'll turn another page. Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book, One brown mouse sitting in a cage." "One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
Mike Dunn himself was the victim of mass-down-voting. His article on namespace extensions was down-voted for reasons other than quality. Nish
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Mike Dunn himself was the victim of mass-down-voting. His article on namespace extensions was down-voted for reasons other than quality. Nish
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But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good :) I hope Mike doesn't mind us singling him out of all the great authors here :rolleyes: There aren't many ways to stop voter fraud without inconvienencing Chris or the user though. Off the top of my head 1) Only registered users can vote, and only vote once per article. This requires that a new table be created to match up userids with votes on an article. 2) When registering for CP an e-mail gets sent to the registering person to verify e-mail address and to change the e-mail address a confirmation is sent. Both must be acknowledged by going to a URL from the e-mail with a unique code in the URL. This doesn't stop someone from registering 100 new users for voting but it forces them to go through more work to do it. I faced the same problem on another website where I had both ratings and a poll. I was more concerned with the poll though because some of the information gleaned from it lead the organization into different directions. James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile. And every day we'll turn another page. Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book, One brown mouse sitting in a cage." "One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good :) I hope Mike doesn't mind us singling him out of all the great authors here :rolleyes: There aren't many ways to stop voter fraud without inconvienencing Chris or the user though. Off the top of my head 1) Only registered users can vote, and only vote once per article. This requires that a new table be created to match up userids with votes on an article. 2) When registering for CP an e-mail gets sent to the registering person to verify e-mail address and to change the e-mail address a confirmation is sent. Both must be acknowledged by going to a URL from the e-mail with a unique code in the URL. This doesn't stop someone from registering 100 new users for voting but it forces them to go through more work to do it. I faced the same problem on another website where I had both ratings and a poll. I was more concerned with the poll though because some of the information gleaned from it lead the organization into different directions. James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile. And every day we'll turn another page. Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book, One brown mouse sitting in a cage." "One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
James T. Johnson wrote: But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author, the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. And James, I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Nish
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James T. Johnson wrote: But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author, the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. And James, I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Nish
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Oh yes, I think I've read all of Joe's articles :) I can't say I've done that for any other author, except my own of course. Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: And James, I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. That works as well; but my suggestion allows the public to have a say (since that was my original problem :) James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile. And every day we'll turn another page. Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book, One brown mouse sitting in a cage." "One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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James T. Johnson wrote: But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author, the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. And James, I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Nish
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. I disagree strongly regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Sonork ID: 100.9903 Stormfront
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James T. Johnson wrote: But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author, the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. And James, I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Nish
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Having 10 people with the technical knowledge to be able to rate the wide variety of articles posted on CP would be impossible. It would also create an elite which would be bad news for the website. Personally, I'd abandon the rating system as it is obviously becoming as abused as the one on MSDN. Even if the ratings were only allowed by registered users, it wouldn't be hard to create fake users. I say judge an article on the comments posted and on nothing else. If there is a technical flaw with the article people will point it out. If people really appreciate an article they will leave a comment. Michael :-)
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Having 10 people with the technical knowledge to be able to rate the wide variety of articles posted on CP would be impossible. It would also create an elite which would be bad news for the website. Personally, I'd abandon the rating system as it is obviously becoming as abused as the one on MSDN. Even if the ratings were only allowed by registered users, it wouldn't be hard to create fake users. I say judge an article on the comments posted and on nothing else. If there is a technical flaw with the article people will point it out. If people really appreciate an article they will leave a comment. Michael :-)
The rating is being reworked and I'll be using a system that is far, far harder to abuse, and which will be far more benificial to the article authors. cheers, Chris Maunder
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James T. Johnson wrote: But it still stands we don't need a rating for his articles to know they are good Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author, the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. And James, I think the solution to proper rating is to have a rating panel of annually selected 10 people. Nish
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author... <Chris buffs fingernails and looks modest> ... the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. :eek: Nish - you wound me! ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
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The rating is being reworked and I'll be using a system that is far, far harder to abuse, and which will be far more benificial to the article authors. cheers, Chris Maunder
Yipppeeeeeeeeee. Go Chris go.... Nish :rose:
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Yeah. Mike has written some great articles. In my opinion he is CP's second best author... <Chris buffs fingernails and looks modest> ... the best being of course Joseph M Newcomer. Nobody nears Joe, nobody. :eek: Nish - you wound me! ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
ROTFLMAO Chris..... Nish :-D
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