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Serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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  • A Akram El Assas

    I've just updated one of my new articles this morning and got a 1/5 without leaving any comment or interesting suggestion. The vote was not removed because the article is relatively new and has not got enough upvotes. I also got another 1/5 on another article but this one was removed because the article has enough upvotes. Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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    charlieg
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    Nah, you're arab and people don't like you ;) Seriously this - "but some people just want to be jerks" I've seen this on other articles where unknown yahoos vote 1, claim derivative work, you could have just used , disparage, and otherwise piss on your parade. Traditionally, this would get them into a fist fight where they might reconsider their ways, but it's the internet. Just to spite the prick, I'm going to go look at your articles - keep paddling.

    Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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      Nah, you're arab and people don't like you ;) Seriously this - "but some people just want to be jerks" I've seen this on other articles where unknown yahoos vote 1, claim derivative work, you could have just used , disparage, and otherwise piss on your parade. Traditionally, this would get them into a fist fight where they might reconsider their ways, but it's the internet. Just to spite the prick, I'm going to go look at your articles - keep paddling.

      Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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      and.... I have no idea what CP did to my comment...

      Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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      • A Akram El Assas

        I've just updated one of my new articles this morning and got a 1/5 without leaving any comment or interesting suggestion. The vote was not removed because the article is relatively new and has not got enough upvotes. I also got another 1/5 on another article but this one was removed because the article has enough upvotes. Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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        Lost User
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        Some want you to cater to the lowest denominator. If they don't understand your article, they assume it's your problem.

        "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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          what?

          Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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          0x01AA
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          what what? But sorry try to express you

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          • S Sean Ewington

            I'm looking into this. So far, it doesn't seem to a case of serial downvoting, but if you start to see more votes of 1, please let me know. Nevertheless, I will investigate further.

            Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

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            honey the codewitch
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            I was about to mention you, since you've been so helpful to me in the past. I was looking, and one of my articles was downvoted as well - I'm fine with it, and it doesn't look like they've done it to everything like they typically do so I didn't say anything. I wasn't paying attention to other folks articles in that respect though.

            Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

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              Some want you to cater to the lowest denominator. If they don't understand your article, they assume it's your problem.

              "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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              honey the codewitch
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              To be fair, if people don't understand my articles, I do consider it my problem, but I'd prefer an explanation of the downvote.

              Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

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              • A Akram El Assas

                I've just updated one of my new articles this morning and got a 1/5 without leaving any comment or interesting suggestion. The vote was not removed because the article is relatively new and has not got enough upvotes. I also got another 1/5 on another article but this one was removed because the article has enough upvotes. Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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                Graeme_Grant
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                Yep, they're out there. I just gave you a +5, purely for the effort you put into the project and the article, and to counter the +1.

                Graeme


                "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee

                “I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee.

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                • A Akram El Assas

                  It's a shame when you put so much time and effort on an article and someone who even didn't read it come and vote 1/5 without leaving any reason or any comment.

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                  I just had the same thing happen too. 1/5 I get it quite often. Even think someone follows me that just votes mine 1/5. But I don't care about votes at all. I write most of my articles for myself and for the people who like the topics I cover, so I don't care.

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                  • R RickZeeland

                    Sorry to hear about that, I also experienced this with some of my articles and I think something should be done about this. Maybe its a small consolation to you that I upvoted your article with 5 points.

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                    Yeah, I noticed a while back when an article of mine literally got attacked with downvotes that: CP LoopHole! It is far better to write an article and post it in the forum because no one can downvote in here without you knowing who it is. :laugh:

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                      What you learned is not correct and has been discussed many times: No votes (at least dwon votes) without comments. On the other hand, speaking of a series after two downvotes is also quite questionable ;)

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                      Not true.

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                      • A Akram El Assas

                        Nelek wrote:

                        No problem, vote deletion can happen later too.

                        Thanks. Didn't know that.

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                        Hi! Just a quick note to let you know that when you report an article as spam (as you just did with two of them) you also need to report the user as well, both on their home page, and on the Spam and Abuse Watch Discussion Boards[^]. If you don't, then when the article closes we have no way to dispose of the spammer and that just makes his job easier next time. You also get a little extra rep as a "thank you" when you do that. When you report in S&A, please make sure the title of the article and the username appear in the subject line - that way we don't get multiple reports of the same spam!

                        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Hi! Just a quick note to let you know that when you report an article as spam (as you just did with two of them) you also need to report the user as well, both on their home page, and on the Spam and Abuse Watch Discussion Boards[^]. If you don't, then when the article closes we have no way to dispose of the spammer and that just makes his job easier next time. You also get a little extra rep as a "thank you" when you do that. When you report in S&A, please make sure the title of the article and the username appear in the subject line - that way we don't get multiple reports of the same spam!

                          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                          Akram El Assas
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                          Ok, thanks. I will.

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                            what what? But sorry try to express you

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                            charlieg
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                            I didn't follow what you were saying, suggesting or whatever. :)

                            Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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                            • A Akram El Assas

                              I've just updated one of my new articles this morning and got a 1/5 without leaving any comment or interesting suggestion. The vote was not removed because the article is relatively new and has not got enough upvotes. I also got another 1/5 on another article but this one was removed because the article has enough upvotes. Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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                              Jeremy Falcon
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                              Akram El Assas wrote:

                              Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

                              Probably got a whole new generation of them. We also still got stalkers too and people that will argue over anything. So, welcome to the Internet. :laugh:

                              Jeremy Falcon

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                              • P PIEBALDconsult

                                Well, I can't speak for any of the others, but... Seriously, I see no reason to vote an article a 1 when I can report it as "Extremely poor quality" or something instead. Not meaning yours, of course. Not sure I saw it. In so many cases, I feel I'm not qualified to judge an article, so I don't.

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                                Jeremy Falcon
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                                Apparently there are plenty of peeps (not saying you) that feel qualified enough to argue on them though.

                                Jeremy Falcon

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                                • raddevusR raddevus

                                  Yeah, I noticed a while back when an article of mine literally got attacked with downvotes that: CP LoopHole! It is far better to write an article and post it in the forum because no one can downvote in here without you knowing who it is. :laugh:

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                                  jschell
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                                  raddevus wrote:

                                  no one can downvote in here without you knowing who it is.

                                  Really? How does one see that?

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                                  • A Akram El Assas

                                    I've just updated one of my new articles this morning and got a 1/5 without leaving any comment or interesting suggestion. The vote was not removed because the article is relatively new and has not got enough upvotes. I also got another 1/5 on another article but this one was removed because the article has enough upvotes. Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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                                    jthompson12
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                                    I have same problem

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                                    • J jschell

                                      raddevus wrote:

                                      no one can downvote in here without you knowing who it is.

                                      Really? How does one see that?

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                                      raddevus
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                                      Downvote <=== (down arrow over on left) doesn't do anything, right? And if you do a thumbs down (the icon/emojis) then you can see who made that vote. Oh, for those, you just float over them and it shows who voted using emoji. Here', I'll downvote your message with a thumbs down. :laugh: So... :rolleyes:

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                                      • A Akram El Assas

                                        I've just updated one of my new articles this morning and got a 1/5 without leaving any comment or interesting suggestion. The vote was not removed because the article is relatively new and has not got enough upvotes. I also got another 1/5 on another article but this one was removed because the article has enough upvotes. Do serial downvoters still exist on CodeProject?

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                                        etkid84
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                                        Yea seriously. They exist all over. I posted a few answers on stackoverflow a while back -- one jamoke copied my answer and reformatted it, and then had the balls to downvote my answer. The jackweed had a gozzillian StackOverFlow points too. I had to argue with the site to get me back into the black, just so i could use the site.

                                        ~d~

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                                        • raddevusR raddevus

                                          Downvote <=== (down arrow over on left) doesn't do anything, right? And if you do a thumbs down (the icon/emojis) then you can see who made that vote. Oh, for those, you just float over them and it shows who voted using emoji. Here', I'll downvote your message with a thumbs down. :laugh: So... :rolleyes:

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                                          Looking at one of my down voted messages. - Hovering over down vote button does nothing. - Clicking on it just returns a message that I cannot vote on my own thread. - Clicking on emoji button gives same/similar message. - Hovering over vote total at bottom does nothing - it is not clickable. Looking at your emoji - Hovering over it does give a name. Oddly enough I also see the following for myself. - In the Lounge down vote is disabled. - In Free Tools there is no down/up vote button at all. But it does have the 'Rate' (1 to 5) at bottom of screen.

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