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It would also help if a "solution" going to moderation didn't bring it to the top of the stack until it was approved - if it's rejected then the question hasn't changed and it shouldn't be advanced.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding
The formatting of the article looks ok to me. I am not a subject matter expert to verify its correctness. I wanted to read it but I hesitate because of its downvotes. Shouldn't CodeProject enforce downvoter to state the reason (so that potential readers be warned) or post constructive criticism for article improvement?
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This crops up from time to time. It was tried, and it failed.
Starting today we're removing a barrier on down-voting. You are no longer forced to provide a comment when down-voting.
Basically, if you force users to provide a reason for a down-vote, then they won't down-vote anything for fear of "revenge votes" from the author and his friends. So we ended up with exceptionally poor articles being ranked very highly, not because they were any good, but because the author had a lot of friends (or possibly sock-puppet accounts).
There are mechanisms in place to counter stray down-votes. And if you think you've found a case of someone abusing the system, you can always ask the hamsters to investigate.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Additionally to what Richard said, we had a lot of "mega usefull" messages providing "reasons" for the one-vote as the one I just posted before this
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The likely reason for the 1-votes are the maths: a lot of "casual readers" will look at that and just downvote because they want to just copy'n'paste and go. Maths scares them because it implies they have to think, and a large chunk of readership just doesn't want to do that.
If the subject interests you, read it - and make up your own mind. Then you can vote appropriately! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Thank you all, the participants of this thread, very much!
This discussion inspires me to continue my writing experience.
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As I'm writing articles, I have a number of JSON entries. Unfortunately, the languages list has Java and JavaScript present, but no JSON. By the way, between Java and JavaScript, we have Kotlin so it's alphabetically out of sequence.
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I was trying to vote an article but it prevents me not to do. I haven't got any emails(even on junks folder) regarding my registration confirmation. Any reason ?
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Your account appears to be in good standing. I've tried sending you a confirmation request. Please let me know if you receive it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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here you can see on my website [^] there are multiple 404 error pages are being created automatically. I don't know how to remove them or solve this problem. I am using Wordpress cms. Please suggest some ideas.
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Your question is in the wrong place, this forum is for issues with the CodeProject website. Please post in Ask a Question[^]. But you will need to provide a lot more information; as it stands no one can guess what your code is doing wrong.
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The "comments" counter in the "Who's who" list shows almost always "0", although it is not "0".
Example (left is screenshot of who's who, right is the direct profile):
 
only Exception in the first two pages: (again is left from Who's who and right from profile)
 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A spammer/troll posted a message which could not be formatted well in the Lounge
The Lounge[^]
Due to this the buttons open in new tab, bookmark and report buttons are pushed to the far right.
Maybe worth reporting.
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I though it was me last week so I gave it some time. Et voila, today, still un-aerodynamic as all getout.
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What were you searching for? Different types of content get rendered differently.
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Search[^]
As an example. The first couple are valid. But then going back ... not so much.
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Well, I found a workaround:"www.codeproject.com" AND "zif" - Google Search[^]
So, I won't be starting my sentenced answers with "so" any time too soon.
[EDIT]
Arghh; here's another Search[^]
Now why would the head item in that return list NOT be returning the webpage on which that TITLED post (contains the search term itself) is currently fermenting?
[END EDIT]
modified 4-Sep-23 16:49pm.
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I'm not able to recreate your issue.
Granted, searching for 'zif' forum messages only returns one page but searching for 'zip' forum messages returns 2,379 messages.
It appears that there just weren't may messages about ZIF sockets.
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Ok, thanks. "2379" was actually the answer we were looking for!  Cheers!
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It'd be handy to know before answering that the member is a Help Vampire - I'm specifically thinking of this guy: ahmed_sa[^] who Richard Deeming described as "our resident Nosferatu-level help vampire" and is currently running at 475 questions and zero comprehension - he appears to be holding down a job purely by getting us to write code for him, and learns absolutely nothing from it.
If we had a "Help Vampire" icon which appeared on the Home page questions list and the QA list as well we could all save time by just not answering him again, and again, and again ... It'd would probably make the company he's paid by ("working for" is definitely not the right phrase) better off in the long run as well.
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I agree 100% as I also spent teh time in trying to answer a question to the best of my ability only to realize that it is the infamous ahmed_sa! Nowadays I look first and jsut ignore his questions.
It will be great if an icon shows up to alert us before we go through the process of opening, reading, thinking, drinking coffee and then see the name at the post's bottom to just exit the question.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and learns absolutely nothing from it.
Are you sure we don't need a "Help Renfield" icon instead?
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There's a couple of options here.
- If a member is abusing the system, causing grief for everyone, diverting the energy and patience of everyone, or otherwise making life unpleasant, he can be reported.
- If a question is asked that isn't clear, is not something that can be answered, isn't a focused question but rather a "write my code for me" question that isn't actually a question, then close the question and move on.
I'm not a fan of building infrastructure to handle one person, but would rather find a solution that is generally applicable to the core issue.
What would you say is the core issue here? Asking too many questions, or asking questions that aren't actually 'questions', or is it that the person isn't providing acknowledgment, or thanks, or giving back help in turn?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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