I think I'm seeing a related problem, most of the messages for http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/CustomToolTips.aspx[^] are missing - even with Noise Tolerance set to Very High. No Date Filter on the page that I can see. Hope you can fix or tell me why I'm stupid, thanks, Ken

Thanks from me as well Chris! That one little vote was like a fly in my beer. Now I can casually brag about having a CodeProject article at swanky parties:)

And ultimately in a burst of genius redesign there'll be a single menu bar right at the top of the screen. Wait, there's a name for that approach....Morkintoosh, Mekintash...?

This might be a little vague, but better than nothing I hope. One way to rotate about an arbitrary axis (there are others): - find the unique point on the axis such that a line from that point to the origin is perpendicular to the axis - let's suppose the point is 1,2,3 -translate that point to the origin - Translation(-1,-2,-3) -do the rotation -undo the translation - Translation(1,2,3) Hope that helps a bit

Thanks Chris! Bonzer!

Nice guide, thanks. I will pound your criteria into my head. Ouch ouch ouch..... One final thought, then I'm outa here before I'm called 'the vote guy': most people don't vote. Not even one in a thousand it seems. Odd, that, are we all such a shy passive bunch?

Yeah, seems I'm Ken Earle[^] for articles, even though I submit with a username of 'kenearle' in my contacts info. Ah well, nice to have an alias I suppose.

I agree Dmitry, all good points. But I think I'd be happier without any rating at all, is all I'm saying in the end. That way we wouldn't have to think thoughts like "don't be fooled by the rating" and "regardless of the rating" and "even 3.9" (I've done worse, by the way, with my first article, but in my case the rating was deserved). Failing that: In statistics (personally I'm allergic to it), when there's obvious and strong noise in a smallish sample it's a common practice to throw out the few highest and lowest data points to compensate. Some rare people will give you a 5 just for showing up. Others, if God appeared before them in person and made them pretty they might consider handing out a 3.

Thanks Chris, didn't know the votes were weighted. That does help. A little bit:)

If I had your Azimov-category output, I'd probably have your attitude too:) Still, thanks for the pep talk, it helped a bit. I can only write one or two articles per year and so they mean more to me than they probably should. The last article I wrote was fairly rated, hence false expectations. Still, five fives, a four, and a ONE? Feels like "Great, great, great, great, great, nice, B****R OFF YOU MORON..." to tell the truth. Talk about whiplash. Ali's article that you mentioned is in much the same state. Oh well, by June I'll feel better. Needless to say, I won't be going into politics.

Some thoughts in my head after watching the early responses to my "Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects" - pass on by if you're not in a mood for rambling discontent.... Among other things, it was fun and genuinely motivating while writing this article to "go for a five", and the first five reviewers agreed I'd done it, much to my delight. Then there was a four, which I can understand (you can't please everybody in every way all the time). Now someone just voted me a one and walked away without a word of comment. Here's the thing: with six votes, the average score was about 4.85 - how many votes would I need to recover from that seventh "poor" vote (regardless of merit)? A total of 33 votes, with everyone from now on voting me a five out of five. More likely I'll be struck by lightning. I don't expect more than ten votes in the entire lifetime of this article. Anonymous voting works well if you're reading, not so well if you're writing. If someone votes you down, you REALLY want to know why, since it wasn't a tossed-off Digg comment, it was a significant chunk of your life - and that doesn't happen nearly as often as it should. About a hundred hours of work through four major drafts, code that's decently pretty and surprisingly simple in places, ideas that I thought people could build on... not that big an effort by CodeProject standards, but at least it's well enough done? Nope, apparently some think it's really just crap. Why? Don't know. The argument has been made, quite earnestly, that CodeProject votes aren't terribly meaningful. This argument doesn't entirely convince. Can you honestly say you aren't influenced by the score before reading an article? My feeling is low-rated articles often aren't even opened from search results. So in the end, sadder but a little wiser maybe, I'd be happy to tackle a fourth article for CodeProject if I could ask for the voting buttons to be entirely removed. For feedback, comments and a popularity rating are more than good enough. I'm "voting" for that no-vote option here, wondering if anyone else agrees that purely destructive anonymous criticism should not be played up as a side-effect of easy judgement? [end of rambling discontent]