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All though I think this is a nice idea, I am not particularly fond of the fact that it seems to be mandatory for 1 and 2 votes, and is not aware of posts already made. Eventually I'll learn to remember a bout this and vote before I comment (so I can use this, and just change the post title by editing), but for now it is quite annoying, and causes my to leave dumb posts like "see below". I rarely low vote an article without leaving a post to explain why, and this seems overkill to deal with a few rude idiots. A "post already made" checkbox, in lieu of a programmatic check would be nice...
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Rob Graham wrote: A "post already made" checkbox
But this would allow people to circumvent actually making a post and hence would defeat the purpose.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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True enough. Guess you'll just have to put up with a few duplicate posts from me, I'm a slow learner.
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I'm placing the vote control inside the 'Add a message' page so you can hit two birds with one stone.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks, Chris. That'll fix it for me!
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It's not very democratic to only expose low votes - it might cause some kind of psychological bias towards higher marks. You'll forgive me if I post low votes without providing a reason, right?
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The voting system is meant to alert readers to the good stuff, and advise authors on where they need improvement. A vote with no message doesn't help an author. A vote and a 'this is why I voted bad' helps an author improve. A high vote is just a "Thanks - well done!" and doesn't really require a comment suggesting improvements.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I agree. This should be optionnal.
I noticed that since the system has been in use, there are fewer 1 and 2 and much more 3. So instead of being able to note articles with 5 notes, we are actually only using 3.
This will just have the side effect to artificially raise the note of recent articles, compared to older ones.
Yarp
http://www.senosoft.com/
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Having the forum links on the side is a nice change. However ... The "bold for new messages" highlighting of the forum names is not working. Hopped on this morning, and I had to go to each and every one of my usual haunts to check for new mesasges. There is no visible difference between those with new and those without. The time for my last visit was correct. (IE7)
Judy
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Both fixed in next rev. Thanks for the heads up
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Still broken in FF3.
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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We haven't uploaded the next rev yet. The forum title area has been fixed, though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The links at the top are messed up for FF2. I think John said he had issues with FF3 as well.
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I have FF3 and yes they are messed up in that browser as well.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Thomas Stockwell wrote: I have FF3 and yes they are messed up in that browser as well.
Yep, I second that.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Given the "popularity" (I hate cryptic crosswords) of Dave's Cryptic Crossword clues, you ought to buy him a copy of this[^] and get him to do a cryptic crossword for the weekly news.
We also need logic puzzles, suduko, lateral thinking problems and other fun stuff to provide a diversion.
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This[^] articles shows a "Modify" link on top and I can continue editing it even though I am not the author of that article.
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That's a new feature. When submitting an article you can choose who can edit your article: Bronze, silver, Gold, Editor or Admin
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Ohh Thanks. Thats a cool feature 
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If an article is updated within a week of its last update, the "Updated" field in the article's header is not changed. This could be a problem if a reader goes by the header for the last update date, since many articles do not include detailed update history.
[update: I think this problem also affects the author's article page.]
modified on Saturday, November 22, 2008 9:07 AM
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Hans Dietrich wrote: If an article is updated within a week of its last update, the "Updated" field in the article's header is not changed
This is by deaign. It stops people updating their article every day in order to have their article hog the homepage. We don't (currently) store enough historical information to easily have the system show the correct latest update but only show on the homepage the first update that happened in the last week.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: hog the homepage
I'm not talking about the homepage. I'm talking about the article's header on the article page.
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All the info comes from the same source so it's the same problem.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The combined C++/.NET top-level filter is far too wide - it encompassess too many articles. Someone working in C/C++/MFC doesn't want to wade through C#/.NET articles (and vice-versa).
I'm not suggesting that codeproject.com be split into mfc.codeproject.com and csharp.codeproject.com. However, having the top-level filters correspond to the physical structure of the website impedes the search process and reduces CP's utility (imho).
Please consider splitting the C++/.NET filter into C,C++,Win32,MFC and .NET. Of course, the exact names you choose may differ.
Thanks,
/ravi
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