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New here.
Just curious about how:
- A member gets designated as Professional,
- A member gets awarded as MVP.
Seeing individuals who have around 10,000 points having the "Professional" icon next to their names; whereas I see others having more than three times those points as ordinary members. Also, saw the recent episode involving an MVP.
If someone aspires to become a Professional, and ultimately an MVP (perhaps a 5-year plan or 10-years?), is there a designated path (straightforward, difficult, involving quite some effort), for that?
Saw this[^], and a few other pages, but not sure if I found something. If there is, please point out.
Brings me back to the title - is there any element of subjectivity here?
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Professional is the designation given for completing all of the profile information in your member profile.
MVP is explained in detail elsewhere, but is essentially the best people from article writing and answering questions etc over the previous 12 months.
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Gifts. You should consider perusing Sean's Amazon wish list for appropriate ideas.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: consider perusing Sean's Amazon wish list
I started, but frankly couldn't keep on looking! That boy is one sick puppy!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: That boy is one sick puppy
Funnily enough, he has that as a wish on page 3 of his list.
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Tassels? 
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Also be aware that the Lounge will get you some very skewed answers.
The only award really of significance is the MVP and you get for exactly what it stands for, valued by the site, answer lots of silly questions without calling the questioner a bloody idiot.
Contribute articles that are not copy/paste from MSDN.
Rep points are irrelevant to this award, and anything else really. They apparently are good for stroking some egos.
And I still think the bunny suit with translucent patches is going too far, stink to the mankini.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Isn't the MVP status computed ? So rep points do have some influence at some points.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I'd be surprised if it is a relevant factor, I would guess it may be a factor in winnowing down the dross and the Q&A/forum points would definitely count so I guess you are right.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: answer lots of silly questions
Yeah! 
Mycroft Holmes wrote: without calling the questioner a bloody idiot.
Ohhh 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I must admit that made me laugh.  
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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It's probably why I am not yet ruler of the universe, in terms of job hierarchy, I can be quite good at the first and second.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: answer lots of silly questions without calling the questioner a bloody idiot.
That can't be right, otherwise how do you explain his MVP?
veni bibi saltavi
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The caveat got put in AFTER 2010!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I disagree, he got an MVP this year again.
veni bibi saltavi
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Yeah but you have to admit he does put in the effort, irritating as he may be he tends not to be outright rude, unlike some of us!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I don't know what the specific definition of "professional" is, because I imagine that most members are professionals, out in the real world.
In order to be an MVP, though, I would imagine that your contributions would have to be valuable (hence the "V"), so that excludes me and my 120k points, because I only hang around the Lounge, and that doesn't exactly serve any useful purpose.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks for all your replies. So, a 'Professional' is one does not hide his/her contact details from CodeProject.
However, regarding subjectivity for MVP, any comment? Because somehow got the feeling that the 'momentum' from previous years sometimes continues into someone retaining their MVP status. Am I correct?
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No, it doesn't. Ultimately, it all comes down to activity. Last year, a couple of authors kept their MVP status despite not having posted anything new because their articles still saw a huge amount of activity. Their articles still added value - a lot of it, and so they were rightly awarded MVP.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Last year, a couple of authors kept their MVP status despite not having posted anything new
We changed it this year to enforce the rule that Article MVPs must have posted at least 3 articles in the previous year.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's a shame - I admired the fact that we were awarding to people who were still giving even though they were no longer as active.
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The issue is that I could still be in contention for MVP status yet I haven't posted anywhere near the level of stuff that some of our newer authors have.
The other option was to only count points against articles posted in the last 2-3 years.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The other option, of course, is for the Maunder to come out of retirement and be an article machine again.
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I feel I'm being baited 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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To quote Sammy Davis Jr.
"Wood eye?"
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