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The best picks are cached and hence delayed. In the time between it last being updated and you viewing it, further votes may have been made.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Is there a way I can start writing a long article at CP, but make it invisible?
The reason: I don't want to be low-rated because the article is incomplete, but want to preview the article as finished.
Best regards,
Jaime.
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By far the easiest (and safest) thing to do is to use one of the free HTML editors on a local html file. That way if the server hiccups at CP, you won't lose anything. Just start with the CP template, and go from there. Double-clicking the file will show you what it's going to look like in your browser.
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I still do that (I have written 8 articles), and I am a proficient pure-HTML coder, but I prefer to have the look and feel of CP when writing my article.
I think a checkbox with "Still do not make public" will be simpler to implement in the Article Submission Wizard.
Best regards,
Jaime.
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It's already there.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I have just seen the checkbox: "Work in Progress - do not make public"
Have you just added or does it was there for a while?
Best regards,
Jaime.
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Been there for a while 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The Code Project is currently being upgraded. We should be back online Real Soon Now.
We all know standard practice for announcing an update is a reply to a "The sites moving slower than a hamster drowning in a tar pit" or "WTF CPHOG's not working any more" post. 
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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I am sorry. I hang my head in shame. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Having recently achieved Gold status and had the "Articles needing approval" appear I need to know how this is done. I find myself 1 voting about 80% and letting someone else approve the articles with reasonable content.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If you don't think an article meets the minimum standard, click the Report article link at the top. If an article has no obvious content; sections appear to be the boilerplate sections; the code is missing; or it's an advert, these are the usual criteria for rejecting the application.
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Votes on unapproved articles are deleted once the article is approved, thus making voting on them a waste of time until they've been approved.
I generally look at the formatting and content, as well as the ability of the person to speak English (though this is the last thing I consider, and it's got to be REALLY bad for me to fail an article).
If they leave any part of the boilerplate, I generally fail it.
I think I push the approve button once every 30 or 40 articles or so.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I think I push the approve button once every 30 or 40 articles or so.
Your hit rate is higher than mine then.
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I don't look at all of them, but in the last three days, I've approved two.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Votes on unapproved articles are deleted once the article is approved, thus making voting on them a waste of time until they've been approved.
Quite the opposite. It allows an author to get feedback and to have a chance to improve their article to a point where it's publishable. Once it's published it should be allowed to start fresh on the published version, not the interim version.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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My not reporting their article is their chance to fix it. Sometimes, I'll leave a message telling them how to fix it. I never vote an article until it's been approved.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Sorry for using this thread for my question but I think it is related.
I have an article with the following stats:
Posted: 2 May 2007
Updated: 25 Jan 2008
Views: 32,832
Bookmarked: 71 times
Votes: 20 votes
Popularity: 5.70
Rating: 4.38
Why is it still unedited? what does it need to abandon this condition?
Best regards,
Jaime.
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I think it would great to have a forum and some articles about the assembly language. 
Lloyd J. Atkinson
"Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere" - ALbert Einstein
I look at Microsoft, and turn to my poster on the wall saying: "Bang head here in case of stress".
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Somehow I ended up on a CP link with the following address:
http://69.10.233.10/
it seems that article links linking back to CP will also contain this IP address instead of www.codeproject.com. I noticed it when I ended up on CP and was no longer logged in (cookie issue?) which confused me a bit. For a minute I thought it was a ripoff site attempting to steal passwords or something but why would anyone do that for CP 
Todd Smith
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Sometimes, I get to a CP article via google, and CP doesn't recognize me as being logged in, even if I've already got a tab opened up to CP at the time.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Is that Google Cache link, by any chance?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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At the very least they should setup a url redirect/rewrite so you end up on the correct link.
Todd Smith
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It's our IP address. For some reason Google decided it made perfect sense to index it and rate it (in some cases) above our named address.
Google - can't live with 'em, can't fire them and have another more responsive provider take over directing the World's internet traffic...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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1) When you click on the advanced search link why hide the advanced search options behind a Show Advanced Search link? That seems like something Vista would do. 
2) On the advanced search panel can you add a button to auto-expand the Language, Platform, Technology, Audience lists to reduce the amount of scrolling required when reading the available options?
3) I think the majority of the web refers to "Message Boards" as "Forums" now. On this[^] page you now call them discussion boards 
Todd Smith
modified on Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:45 PM
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1. Because it was a request, and because 99% of our users just want a sinmple search.
2. Not sure what you mean. If we auto-expand won't that mean more scrolling? Me == confused.
3. Does using 'Message Boards' confuse people or make it unclear what we have?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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