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I posted a 'Tip and Trick' that disappeared while it was waiting to be approved by the community.

What I have tried:

I asked for help to report the incident and find out what had gone wrong.

After a while, I noticed that I had lost 10 reputation points because my request for help had been downvoted (twice). Frankly, I was astonished and puzzled by the downvotes.

Cheers

V Cento
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Updated 29-Mar-23 8:36am
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Jo_vb.net 29-Mar-23 13:25pm    
Unfortunately here are some guys who do that without a good reason.
I gave you an upvote now!

1 solution

Just like your earlier post, this is the wrong place to ask.

But ... I'll try and shed some light on both of your complaints.

First off, every article posted requires moderation* - you submit it, and the community (all of whom are article writers) read it and decide if in their opinion it is up to the standard we expect, and otherwise suitable for publication. If enough decide it is, it goes through. If enough decide it isn't, it does not go through and disappears from the moderation queue. That doesn't mean anyone has been malicious or whatever - it's a "quality control" check, is all.

Secondly, when you post stuff in the wrong place, you leave yourself open to downvotes - any member (pretty much) is at liberty to upvote, downvote, or ignore any post you or I (or any other member) makes. It you post something that isn't a "real question" in some peoples eyes, that makes it suitable for downvoting. Again, this is normal, and we all get it. You should see the number of downvotes I generally get from students who m=want to avoid writing their own homework! :D
Two downvotes and 10 points indicates two low-level members as higher levels do "more damage" (I think my level kicks over 30 points off, but I'm not sure) which means it's just newbies with a tatse of "power". Ignore it - post good stuff and you'll get them back pretty fast.


* Once your Author rating gets high enough, it is possible to "self moderate" and such items don't require community moderation
 
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Jo_vb.net 29-Mar-23 13:47pm    
Down voting a question because it was posted in the wrong forum section is not good behavior.

I do not down vote your "solution" but for what it's worth.
OriginalGriff 29-Mar-23 14:11pm    
I didn't say it was good behaviour: it is a "known behaviour" though.
Personally, I don't down vote much at all - because I know how much of an effect it can have on low rep members.
But there are "griefers" every where there are people - go play GTA V in a public session and you'll see what I mean!
0x01AA 29-Mar-23 14:18pm    
Not sure what is in question here...
I remember, that I marked an accepted article publication from @V_Cento as 'Wrong type (tip, blog, article). The article was original approved by cp staff.
I hope that is not the issue...

Anyway: There was no downvote involved from my side
Jo_vb.net 29-Mar-23 14:14pm    
It would be much better if a moderator would move the question to the correct forum section.
OriginalGriff 29-Mar-23 15:09pm    
We don't have that power - only the admins have sufficient access to the DB.

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