Bugs and Suggestions

5-Oct-05 6:52

When,
A message that I posted is rated.
Article that I posted is rated.

ofcource the email notification will also contain who rated it!

-prakash

-- modified at 13:05 Wednesday 5th October, 2005

Notification

toxcct10-Oct-05 6:07

toxcct

10-Oct-05 6:07

Note : toxcct voted '5' to your post Laugh | :laugh:

TOXCCT >>> GEII power
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Re: Notification

Prakash Nadar10-Oct-05 6:31

10-Oct-05 6:31

-prakash

Re: Notification

Prakash Nadar10-Oct-05 6:37

Post faster, post more, post now

10-Oct-05 6:37

But I guess Chris did not like the idea coz this would probably load his email server.

-prakash

Forum search

Shog⁹3-Oct-05 14:34

Shog⁹

3-Oct-05 14:34

So am i missing something, or has the forum search not been updated since August?

Re: Forum search

Chris Maunder3-Oct-05 17:00

Chris Maunder

3-Oct-05 17:00

Full text indexing is enabled. Change tracking is on. An incremental update was done just in case.

A large boot will be applied tomorrow morning.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Re: Forum search

Michael Dunn7-Oct-05 9:58

Michael Dunn

7-Oct-05 9:58

Chris Maunder wrote:
A large boot will be applied tomorrow morning.

I'm picturing the Simpsons episode where Bart goes to Oz is sentenced to a booting. Now I'm picturing you doing the same to the server. Now I'm just creeped out and need to try a different cold medicine. D'Oh! | :doh:

--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP Cool | :cool:

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Time for a new section

Jamie Nordmeyer3-Oct-05 6:26

Jamie Nordmeyer

3-Oct-05 6:26

With the plythora (is that even remotely correct on spelling???) of AJAX related articles being posted, maybe CP should add a special section in for it as a sub-category under ASP.NET. AJAX is a great concept, and it'd be nice to see everything grouped together nicely like so much else on this site. Smile | :)

Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Taekwondo Yi (2nd) Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA

-- modified by Ed. at 12:42 Monday 3rd October, 2005

Re: Time for a new section

Marc Clifton3-Oct-05 6:40

Marc Clifton

3-Oct-05 6:40

AJAX / ATLAS

Marc

My website
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Understanding Simple Data Binding
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Re: Time for a new section

Chris Maunder3-Oct-05 6:42

Chris Maunder

3-Oct-05 6:42

Great idea.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Re: Time for a new section

David Crow12-Oct-05 7:41

David Crow

12-Oct-05 7:41

Jamie Nordmeyer wrote:
With the plythora...

Plethora.

"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb

Unanswered Forum Questions

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar2-Oct-05 21:56

2-Oct-05 21:56

CP can also bring a category called 'Unanswered Questions', which can enlist all the questions which do not have any reply threads.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/

Prakash Nadar2-Oct-05 23:10

2-Oct-05 23:10

and purpose is...?

-prakash

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar2-Oct-05 23:18

2-Oct-05 23:18

A kind of escalation queue so that at least all questions get to seek a solution from some experts in case they are hidden from a view and/or have been skipped.

A similar thing would be there in ASP>NET forums too -> http://forums.asp.net/TopicsNotAnswered.aspx[^]

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/

Prakash Nadar3-Oct-05 5:32

3-Oct-05 5:32

I been visiting this site for about 1 year and answered many questions in VC++ forum, Most of the questions that go unanswered are
1. Badly written question
2. The poster expects half of the project to be implemented with his one line question, like "how to write a bubble sort?".
3. The question does not belong to the forum.
4. The poster has not spend too much time investigating the problem.
5. etc.

So the escalation queue would be the questions that would belong to pulgatory questions.

For example,
http://forums.asp.net/1070328/ShowPost.aspx
This guy has dumped the whole src code which he himself says that he had not written the code and its not working for some reason.

Not many "experts" like to spend time on something that is not an athentic effort of the poster himself. (an example reason)

-prakash

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar3-Oct-05 19:46

3-Oct-05 19:46

Prakash,

Your argument could be partially accepted though not always.

1) Poorly phrased question. Normally, some considerate persons question back the poster asking them to substantiate their stand with more data or information.

2) Implementation Request: Yes. No one can ever accept this. Perhaps questions like this need to be marked for 'Purgatory' and need to be expunged. These does not, in fact practice healthy forum discussion threads.

3)Not a proper forum: Sometimes the poster out of his desperate need for an quick resolution hastily cross posts in multiple forums. In some cases, when the forums are interrelated, you can allow this to have it answered in one and then link other queries to the this one or ask the poster or moderator to expunge the duplicate queries.

4)This is a variant of argument no. (2).

Additionally, the forum also need to discourage subjects like 'Urgent' etc.

Of course, while these contribute to some 30% of the forum posts, an 'Unanswered Classification', helps in a more granular division and to ensure two things:

(*) Bona fide questions are not skipped.
(*) Makes administration of forums efficient so that any junk postings can be cleared quickly.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/

Trollslayer10-Oct-05 6:57

Trollslayer

10-Oct-05 6:57

0. Homework.

The tigress is here Big Grin | :-D

Prakash Nadar10-Oct-05 8:02

10-Oct-05 8:02

Trollslayer wrote:
0. Homework.

That fits in point no 2 Smile | :)

-prakash

ThatsAlok13-Oct-05 4:50

ThatsAlok

13-Oct-05 4:50

Trollslayer wrote:

0. Homework.

Yeap, I agree on that Smile | :)

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Christian Graus6-Oct-05 2:09

Christian Graus

6-Oct-05 2:09

I agree 100%

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

bugDanny6-Oct-05 8:56

bugDanny

6-Oct-05 8:56

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
CP can also bring a category called 'Unanswered Questions', which can enlist all the questions which do not have any reply threads.

But a lot of questions, I'm sure, get (a) out of date, the programmer is no longer working on the project, or (b) already answered, getting no answer here perhaps the programmer went elsewhere, to a book or colleagues for example, and got his answer, which is why he didn't repost.

This, along with the other objections, should be considered. Maybe the programmer with the unanswered questions could just repost if he wants his question answered, of course imploring people to consider it this time and/or asking what's wrong with the question if it's not understandable.

Danny

The stupidity of others amazes me!

Hyperlinks in Message Posting

David Crow12-Oct-05 7:43

David Crow

12-Oct-05 7:43

If the original poster really wanted an answer to their question, they'd come back in 2-3 days and post it again, hopefully at a different time to catch a new audience.

"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar1-Oct-05 2:35

Re: Hyperlinks in Message Posting

1-Oct-05 2:35

Hi,

While posting a hyperlink in Clipboard, CP automatically does the job of pasting it as an HTML Link and also a new Window text along with it. Cool. Smile | :)

But if I would like to have a particular text to be hyperlinked, just in Outlook (Ctrl +K) in Compose Window, it would be very useful too.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/

Prakash Nadar1-Oct-05 5:41