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[At the risk of opening a big can 'o worms...]
Might I suggest a per-article limit to the number of downloads for which reputation points are awarded?
I've only submitted two articles (so far), and have already made it to "Legend" level for Author, the majority of reputation points coming from downloads (3800+) for my 2nd article. As much as I am gratified by the positive attention, it doesn't seem right having achieved the maximum Author level after only two articles.
Either that, or add more levels (Legend-2 at 50,000 points, Legend-3 at 100,000 points, etc).
Comments?
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This has been beaten to death repeatedly over several threads over the last few weeks. Maunder's said there will be a change to the download points prior to parsing the logs and giving a decade of retroactive points. (Apparently he didn't like the idea of his getting 1M additional points and moving into first.) He's refused to say in advance what the change he's going to make will be though. 
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Shhhh... you're going to ruin it for the rest of us. I've been relying on one article to get me to gold. 
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wow! ...very honorable of you to suggest this... 
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I'm going to lower the points from 5 to 1.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I still think it seems a bit high, but I guess stopping there let you keep all your math in integer form which has some benefit.
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I think it should be 1 for every N downloads...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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 I'll try to enjoy my gold status while it lasts.
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Not only you dude, Luc, Sandeep, etc., are worrying about the Platinum status.
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I think anyone who's a long term author will probably end up with more points after the recalc, since the +5 has only been applied to new downloads (proof: Maunder has ~200k downloads, but nowhere near 1M author points).
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Agree. Yes, Chris said the rep.recalculation will be on this week end or next.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: I'll try to enjoy my gold status while it lasts.
Please vote my articles quickly before the rep.recalculation.
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If you maintain the act of downloading is worth 2 points, you are basically saying that to CP readers are more important than writers.
Giving points for being downloaded is OK, having a way to limit the number is fine too (a linear function does not achieve that, you will change your mind again later on), however I must suggest, once more, you don't give any points for actively downloading, it does not organize anything, therefore not 2 Org points, not 1 Org points, just nada.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability. CP Vanity has been updated to V2.3
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Chris,
Good idea - but maybe go with diminishing returns. A log scale: 1 point per download for the first 1000, 1 per 10 for the next 10K, 1 per 100 for the next 100K etc.
Either way - when do you plan to implement this change? Gotta know how long I have my platinum rating 
Graham
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Not a bad idea - but what if someone makes a significant update to an article? The decay factor will need resetting. If we do this, then there is nothing to stop someone simply renaming their download regularly to reset whatever we put in place.
As to timing, we have to work through a perf issue that has seen the recalc blow out to 4 days instead of half a day. Just trying to work out which SLEEP(1000) call needs to be removed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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As there is no real way to automagically measure the significance of an update, I would vote against resetting the decay factor.
Updates still get rewarded indirectly - an update tends to result in renewed exposure which (assuming the article is worthy), leads to more upvotes.
As a side note, I would also say that the act of downloading should result in any rep points.
Graham
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Originally posted this on the article discussion board and then ASP.NET forum, but was directed to post it here.
Article from 18 Feb 2004: A Simple protocol to view aspx pages without IIS implemented in C#. Since the code has "no explicit license attached to it", can I use and distribute code with my applications under the terms of the CPOL 1.02? I did not find any additional license or terms in the article or the code downloaded. Thank you.
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Andy's still active on CP (made posts today). Post a message on the article forum asking him (he'll get an email notice). I suspect he just hasn't thought about it for his old stuff since the explicit license feature is only a few years old.
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3x12=36
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Today while writing my latest 2 articles, it really became obvious and annoying how this little bug is;
While using the WYSIWYG editor, every 99% of the time I hit enter to carriage return, the editor lost focus and I had then to reclick in the editor with the mouse to return focus to the control and continue typing.
This is on Chrome 11.0.696.71 by the way.
Another little bug I noticed was on the insert link popup dialog. The submit / cancel buttons are 'off dialog' and had to resize to access them.
Cheers,
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I stopped using the online editor after it gave me several free obedience lessons. Don't use it. Problem solved, no worries!
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Cheers Hans,
I don't generally, but they were simple (really simple) articles, and I couldn't be bothered wrestling with the templates and VS editor etc etc.
They were fine apart from the couple of bugs.....
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This article. Some of the text (message bodies, message timestamps, "rate this message") in the forum under that article is orange (same shade as headers in the article). I think maybe there's an unclosed tag or something of that sort. I only see it in IE8 (looks fine in Chrome and FF). Another possibility is that some closing tags are in the wrong order and some browsers are handling it better than others (e.g., <b><i>wrong</b></i>).
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It was a spurious <h2 /> tag. IE8 doesn't consider it self-closed so it affects the rest of the page.
All fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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