Coding Sanity

I've noticed that neither of my last two articles on sadeveloper have been given any rankings. I went and investigated, and found that no-one has bothered to give any rankings or comments for any articles (there are 4) in the last two months. I don't rate articles because it might be seen as a conflict of interest (you know, dragging another article down to make mine look better). But not everyone in sadeveloper writes articles.

I don't know about the others, but I personally enjoy having feedback. I've heard some complaints in dotnet.org about article quality on sadev. Go have a look at the sadeveloper main page and look at the most recent articles and the most popular. If you don't like anything you see there, rank it down! If you'd like to see more of one kind of article, rank it up! The thing is that when you're thinking of writing an article for a site like sadev, you go and look and see what people like.

The comments you receive on your article influence your future ones. If someone says "I'd prefer more in-depth detail", then you'll keep that in mind when writing your next article. The point is that these rating systems are a sort of feedback look that the readers can use to train the writers into writing what the readers want.