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voting seems to go like this:
5: the post was funny, well put, or you agree with the content.
4: it was pretty good, but not worth a 5. or, you know if you give it a 5, someone will come along and give it a 1, out of spite.
3: used only rarely: usually when you want to bring a post's rating back to normal levels, gently.
2: used when you can't find the "1"
1: the post was incoherent, a flame or troll, or you simply disagree with the content but lack the ability to put that disagreement into words. it can also be used when you don't like the person who posted. it's not uncommon to see 1's applied to every post made by a particular person, regardless of content.
(i am sure this was not the intent of implementing the voting system)
-c
(p.s. , yes, that's a rather cynical way of looking at it.  )
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Chris Losinger wrote:
it can also be used when you don't like the person who posted. it's not uncommon to see 1's applied to every post made by a particular person, regardless of content
Hey, who authorized you to discuss my personal issues in public? Oops! You didnt mention me by name eh? Sorry 
Nish 
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
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Nishant S wrote:
Hey, who authorized you to discuss my personal issues in public?
I think he is talking about himself, b'cos lot of his posts (90%) in soapbox get default 1 rating. 
Don't ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and drive.
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Kant wrote:
I think he is talking about himself, b'cos lot of his posts (90%) in soapbox get default 1 rating.
Chris L and I are the 1-brothers  We both have a very similar CP past where articles have been 1-downed by people and now posts too.
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
Click here for review[NW]
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Could anyone please give the CP mail server its weekly kick to get the mails out?
Seems that on tuesday and wednesday there is no hope to get mail notifications.
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Am I the only one using the Send to a friend feature?
However, I'll give it a try again: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=457912&forumid=1645#xx457912xx[^]
Regards
Thomas
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I saw the post - it's on the TODO list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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 Ok then, thanks.
Regards
Thomas
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I saw the post - it's on the TODO list.
You know, I use the same excuse here about not doing any work! 
Roger Allen
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Thomas Freudenberg wrote:
Am I the only one using the Send to a friend feature?
Probably. Who needs it anyway? If anyone is worth to be called a friend he/she knows and uses CP (and thus the article) anyway. So? 
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Because I am a friend of myself Sometimes I am reading an interesting article while at home, which might be helpful at my job, therefore I often send links to myself 
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Thomas
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Thomas Freudenberg wrote:
therefore I often send links to myself
Then maybe you should checkout the "My Bookmark" functionality? Works really nice.
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Then maybe you should checkout the "My Bookmark" functionality? Works really nice.
I know that feature. However, it works nice only if you have less than 30 bookmarks set
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Thomas Freudenberg wrote:
However, it works nice only if you have less than 30 bookmarks set
Doh, didnt know that. Well then, forget it and use that[^] instead, this solves your problem with bookmarks (and some others too).
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a post with 1 or more "1" votes will be colored normally. the gray color doesn't appear until the rating goes above 1.0 but below 2.5 (? some magic number).
don't understand. feel dumb. need nap.
-c
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Naw, it just takes 3 or more votes to show. They can be all 1s or just end up <2.5 (or whatever).
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From the FAQ:
The Noise level drop-down allows you to specify the minimum score a message must have in order for it to appear normally on the boards.
If a message has been given a score that is below your noise threshold then it will appear dimmed out on the boards. A message must have at least 5 votes and be below your threshold to be grayed out.
Messages that have been voted greater than 4.5 will be marked as red regardless of the the number of votes it has.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
A message must have at least 5 votes and be below your threshold to be grayed out.
looks like the limit is actually (as Shog points out) 3 votes, not 5.
and, what are the numeric levels of the thresholds?
-c
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You're right - I've updated the FAQ.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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IMHO, it might have been better to change the number of votes needed to colour a post grey from 3 to 5. It's getting more and more common for "normal" posts to be downvoted easily.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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Rohit Sinha wrote:
It's getting more and more common for "normal" posts to be downvoted easily.
And richly deserved in all cases, i hold!
*cough*
er, well, since it only takes once '5' to turn a post red, surely it shouldn't be too hard a post gray? A post has to be felt fairly strongly about to even get three votes - not to mention three that add up low enough to turn it gray. The increase in gray of late prolly has more to do with strong feelings over the war (and BS trolling...) than anything else.
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Shog9 wrote:
And richly deserved in all cases, i hold!
How about this one[^] then (no need to click, it's the post by Chris Losinger above)? There are many more exceptions like this, and they are becoming more and more common.
Shog9 wrote:
since it only takes once '5' to turn a post red, surely it shouldn't be too hard a post gray
It's easier to piss people off than to please them. If I piss person A off for example, he'll go ahead and rate my post a 1. Then it needs only two more people to vote before it turns grey. And since the final score depends on the colour of the medals aka status of those voting, it may be difficult for a post to get out of greydom.
Anyway I just made a small suggestion, nothing too important, and I wonder why I rambled on so much. You do have a good point though. 
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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Rohit Sinha wrote:
How about this one[^] then
I did that to prove my point. 
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Not one of them, IMO, should be called beer. Maybe malt flavored mineral water.
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Hello Everybody,
Each time i post a message on CP... i didn't get any reply from anybody at all for my query... what's going on CP? or we don't have sufficient code masters to slove my query? 
Regards,
Vilas Shewale
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Maybe all code masters are on vacation 
Best regards,
Alexandru Savescu
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