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And interestingly, I found my original message in 'Suggestions' forum voted low (4 votes). It was just my opinion/feedback anyway. 
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You're asking a lot of users who can't even post in the correct forum...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: You're asking a lot of users who can't even post in the correct forum...
True. We have a significant amount of users who just loiter around the forums, littering any of the forum which they can victimize at thier own whims and fancies. 
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Hello,
I'm allways wondering why answers are downvoted.
Therefore I placed a suggestion[^]some day ago.
But now it came to my mind, that maybe some of these votes were not on purpose.
So I looked at the short description : "Rate this message: 1 2 3 4 5 (out of 5)", and I remembered as I started posting on this forum it took me a little while to understand this.
For people who's english is not that good, "(out of 5)" is not very easy to understand.
There would be the possibility to give examples like: "(1..poor, 5..excellent)".
Or, like nearly all other forums, give symbolic help.
Five stars or Five Bobs (CP alien)!
There was an additional confusion for me, cause in our school system a "1" is excellent and "5" is poor.
All the best,
Martin
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True. Instead of cryptic notations which might turn ambiguous in different cultures and also for different people, we can try to be as clear.
Another example I like to quote is US Traffic Signals.
1) One of the most common traffic signals found in British Indian systems are 'No Entry'. But in US, they always have it like 'Do not Enter' and even within the roads, on both the sides 'Wrong Way' signal flanks the road.
2) We have cryptic 'Zebra-Crossings' but I felt that in US, the pedestrian crossing has a distinct White light (WALK) signal and Red light (STOP) signal showing a man.
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Looks like, there was again a missunderstanding, in which meaning so ever!
Got my '5' to bring it back in shap.
Wow, looks like it was a platinum member! (2.3 from 2 votes)
And it again shows for me the need of (not anonym) voting statements.
All the best,
Martin
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The addition of a "thumbs up / thumbs down" icon was suggested earlier and will be added.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Very Good!
All the best,
Martin
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Chris Maunder wrote: "thumbs up / thumbs down" icon
A picture is worth thousand words and I am sure this would be a good value-addition.
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Hi Chris,
Using the icons takes language out of the equation. That should work well (unless of course we are in ancient Rome where 'thumbs down' was a good thing).
Jeff
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"You can't vote for messages posted using your IP address" might not be applicable in many places in India.
Reasons:
There are even some cable ISPs who mask many providers behind a single IP address.
Suggested Workaround:
A combination of cookie + logged on user account + session + time stamp can be used to fix this bug.
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Yes you are correct. In my office we have a shared internet connection. Single line is shared on all systems. So outgoing IP will be same for all systems. CP's restriction allows any one in the whole company to vote. Other's can't vote for the same message 
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I think the current approach would be using REMOTE_ADDR. I would suggest HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR give the IP address of the actual web browser system behind the proxy/firewall. Isn't it?
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It's not a bug, it's by design.
cookie == session, and a cookie is deletable which completely defeats the purpose. New accounts can also be created which again defeats the purpose.
Having some people miss out on being able to vote is better than allowing many others to unfairly cast multiple votes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: cookie == session, and a cookie is deletable which completely defeats the purpose. New accounts can also be created which again defeats the purpose.
I agree that each of the parameters has loopholes.
Chris Maunder wrote: Having some people miss out on being able to vote is better than allowing many others to unfairly cast multiple votes.
  Looks bad though. But I understand that at least the integrity of the system is maintained. It was always involves a tradeoff in a way or another though. 
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We're going to remove the login condition in the profile list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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So, in effective, member images can henceforth be viewed without logon anywhere in the website. Wouldn't that mean reducing the security of the fortress?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Wouldn't that mean reducing the security of the fortress?
You're kidding me, right?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: You're kidding me, right?
No.
I would like to clarify. In the previous instance when non-member image display is suppressed, you save bandwidth for CP alongside that abuse of images is achieved.
Now since you are lifting off this security check from all the pages, both these security restrictions are being lifted off.
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gmail is giving me grief when I try to email an article update that contains an exe. I suggest adding an "Update" button on the article page, which would work just like the Submission Wizard, except that some fields would be read only (like the name). The button would only appear if the article had been edited and moved. Currently I'm renaming zip's to ".zzz", but that has already caused some confusion on your end.
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Good one.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The code in the article I submitted is not colorized correctly (I have the code property to vbnet). Keywords like dim, as, if, then, etc are formatted normally - in black. This isn't too bad, but it makes the code look a little plain.
See it here.[^]
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Formatting is awfully broken. You sc***ed my new HP mouse by unnecessary horizontal scrolling.
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Our coloriser is busted.
It makes us sad 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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