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It's a difficult situation because on one hand we all want code that is bug-free and updated, but on the other authors want to be able to share their code for free without being tied down with a perpetual obligation to continually update and maintain code. In many cases authors move on to different technologies, jobs or interests and simply have no way, means or interest in continuing to update their code.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Moak
Though a good suggestion, I think in my view, this has mixed issues to address:
(*) The article might contain some discovery or troubleshooting tip which might be useful to a peer developer whilst searching the Net. That would be useful to him.
(*) The author might have transformed himself to a newer or other technology.
But I think for articles which has secured too few votes or reception by users, CP has a thing called 'Purgatory' and even there CP has a feature by which if it secures vote, it can be reclaimed into a suitable category.
Did this attend to your query?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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To the 1st (*): Absolutely, and with feedback of other users some articles can be improved and increase helpfulness/value over time. I think there was a misunderstanding (with my english), with 'rotten articles' I did not mean badly written articles... but something that is slowly fading away.
To the 2nd (*): My suggestion was towards maintaining abandoned articles, NOT about removing them from CP. Assigning each good article an active maintainer could keep articles uptodate when the original author is no longer available. Here on CP there are probably users who would like to do such a work, if it would be offered: Work on something with others and see it grow better over time!
Hope it helps.
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Hey
Is there any chance there could be a page of user statistics added to the site? Maybe a histogram of the number of people who have posted articles? Or a histogram of the number of people who have posted comments? Just trying to get a feeling for the number of people (out of the 2,000,000+) who actually participate here, and how many just sign up to ask a single question or lurk.
Sorry if this info is already available. I haven't been able to find it.
Could you also add the score for the individual articles in the author summary page (so you don't have to load the article to get an idea of how highly it's rated) and maybe an overall score for the author (all scores for all articles by that author summarized in 1 number)?
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That's a nice idea. There should be a page with statistics about the access times, the user stats, the countries they are coming from, the browsers they are using, ...
Would be very interesting!
Don't try it, just do it! 
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Maybe I should just open up our DeepMetrix log analysis pages
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Yeah, good idea 
Don't try it, just do it!
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Chris -
I currently havbe a thread in the lounge where the reply repeatedly (well, two times in a row) ends up with the wrong post (everything is still ok on the reply form)
If you want me to try something, I'm at your service.
the thread: http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1180881#xx1180881xx[^]
I tried to reply to Daniel Turini, but it ended up with Judah Himango two times
[edit] did you move tzhem? Thanks - even though it's not what I intended. But don't bother, I was just curious[/edit]
Pandoras Gift #44: Hope. The one that keeps you on suffering.
aber.. "Wie gesagt, der Scheiss is' Therapie"
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygen
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Sounds like a threading problem which has (I hope) since been fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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at the end of a page (next to copyright). What does it mean, updated? Last change to CP SW/HW or posts/articles? Than it has little informational value and it could simply be "daily updates" as well 
Not really a suggestion, just curious.
ps. I just noticed.. this page... last updated 3 Nov 2001 ?  So it does mean code changes after all, am I right?
Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy
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It depends.
On utility pages it's the date the page was built (eg 2001)
On articles it's the date it was last updated
On the homepage it's the date the homepage was last updated (ie today)
On the lounge it's the date of the last post (again, today)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Either:
1. Put the Java forum back in the list, or
2. Remove it altogether.
The current situation is kinda comical.
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On pages such as this[^], how about a filter so that we can view only articles with a rating of X or higher?
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Hmmm... each section is sorted by rating, so ignoring everything below your threshold isn't a problem (but I guess you noticed that already)
Pandoras Gift #44: Hope. The one that keeps you on suffering.
aber.. "Wie gesagt, der Scheiss is' Therapie"
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygen
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Sure, but it could save bandwidth and download time, at the very least. Plus, it would filter out a lot of fluff, thereby reducing clutter on pages with tons of articles, many of which are sub-par.
Not a necessity, just a nice-to-have.
Jon Sagara
I said NO salt, NO SALT on my margarita!!
Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles
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The forum code doesn't detect IE 7 Beta 1. Instead of the DHTML view I'm used to from IE 6, I get the non-DHTML version.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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All fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Separate forums concerning programming languages from forums about different techniques and the more general chitchat forums. Something like this for an example;
C#
C++/CLI
Visual C++
Visual Basic / VB.NET
.NET Framework
ASP.NET
ATL / WTL / STL
COM
SQL / ADO / ADO.NET
VS.NET IDE issues
XML / XSL
Collaboration / Testing
Embedded / Mobile
Operating Systems / SysAdmin
The Soapbox - off-topic rants
Work Issues / Certification / Resumes
Web Development
Article Requests and Ideas
General Discussions
Hardware
The Lounge
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I have posted a topic, Remote Desktop posted a different Display[^] at C++/CLI forum.
However, I think I've posted it in the wrong forum and moreover there's no respond. I should have post it in Visual C++ forum instead.
Is there a way to move my topic to the Visual C++ forum?
Thanks:->
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Best way is to delete and repost in the correct forum.Only admin has the right to move a post AFAIK.. I know that some inappropriate Lounge posts were moved to Soapbox by Chris
Regards Agni
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Thanks Agni
Is it okay to repost at Visual C++ forum without deleting the previous one at C++/CLI?
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Its not popular, it is important.
Like to see this forum here.
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The Visual C++ forum would fit here.
-- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos
Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
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I need a Java forum because I have questions.Can this be possible?Thanks.
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