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We're putting in place more voting diagnostics so we can find this sort of stuff and just nuke it.
The system's not perfect, but I think an 'ultimate' solution is pretty much impossible unless you force full disclosure of all votes.
...and then people just create anonymous accounts...
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How about exposing all article voters, < 3 requires a comment all others are at least listed.
I like to check the quality of the 3 voter, and would like the opportunity to discuss the reason for the vote, especially if the voter is someone I respect, a writer or supporter of the forums.
Although this has the potential to start a flame war (probably why it has not been done) when some tri voter passes through I think it would eliminate these.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm not a CEO or a manager, and I don't intend to be one in the next few years.
When I selection "MFC/C++" in the "Article Category" section, CP always resets it to "CEO/Manager"
(On Firefox 3.0.6)
Thanks.
This signature was proudly tested on animals.
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Can you trying clearing your CodeProject cookies? I've seen that before (only on Firefox) and the only way I can get it to reset is to clear cookies, after which it seems to work fine again.
I've not encourntered this on Chrome, Opera or IE.
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I'll eat my cookies and report back.
(seems to work ok on safari on OSX).
THanks.
This signature was proudly tested on animals.
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I was reading this thread in the soapbox[^] when I got this idea. It's not original as I got it from photo.net where people can choose to allow/disallow ratings on their uploaded photos. Only rated photos show up in the top-x sections, competitions etc.
Similarly we could allow an author to disallow ratings on his article. It will be marked as unrated and will not show up in searches based on vote-count, popularity-count etc. The only statistic it will have is view-count.
And readers can choose to see only rated articles. That way they can avoid viewing rating-disabled articles.
You may feel that some authors might abuse this to post poor articles and then disable rating. But "Report this article" will continue to work, so if enough people report it, it will get deleted. This system works very well in photo.net and people don't complain about the bad ratings they get because they know they chose to get those ratings.
[Chris : If you like this idea and are going to add it to the todo, please insert it at the top if it's a stack or the bottom if it's a queue implementation]
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The 'force a comment' system has alleviated a lot of the spurious 1-voting so I don't feel the issue is as relevant anymore. See John's reply about the age of the votes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: The 'force a comment' system has alleviated a lot of the spurious 1-voting so I don't feel the issue is as relevant anymore. See John's reply about the age of the votes.
Yep I fully agree - that worked great. A lot better than I had initially thought it will.
I still think the un-ratable option is a good one - though I personally would never use it on my articles.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: ou may feel that some authors might abuse this to post poor articles
What other reason would there be? Seriously, I use ratings when I search for articles - looking at the highest rating first.
Wouldn't the net effect be to create a "kiddie section", that wouldn't be fully integrated with the rest of the site?
I'm not getting this suggestion, Nish.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: What other reason would there be? Seriously, I use ratings when I search for articles - looking at the highest rating first.
Well many people here complain about their article receiving low ratings. I am sure some of them would prefer to disable ratings on the article. You'll find that CP already implements this for ShowCase articles. So there won't be any need to write extra code for this feature.
Hans Dietrich wrote:
I'm not getting this suggestion, Nish.
Well I didn't think everyone would like the idea (Chris didn't for instance). Photo.net (the biggest photo community online) implements this and it works great for them. People who think they don't want the public to rate their photos just disable ratings.
It won't really be a "kiddie" section - it'd be an "unrated" section. For classification purposes, they can be treated as being 2.0 rated - so they show up in searches based on rating/popularity.
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I don't see the need. Like Chris said, the forced comment thing has alleviated pretty much all of the drive-by 1 voting on articles...
"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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I was submitting my first article and had filled out most of the page when I decided to click one of the links that provides information about the box I was filling in. Fear hit me when I saw the page refresh. Then I calmed down and told myself "no problem, this is a site for coders... they have this covered". So, I read the info and clicked the "Back" button on my browser.... ARGH!!... the information I put some time into was gone!
Please update all the "info" links on the article submission pages to open another window, or save the information... web programming 101... maybe I'll do an article on this. 
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Well, do what I do - write your article text offline and when you're ready, go into the article wizard, upload your files, copy/paste your article text (followed by making any necessary adjustments), and Bob's your uncle. That way, you always at least have your original text to fall back on in case CP trips over Chris.
"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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Sure... bring logic and sense into my rant... make me feel dumber than a stump... hurt my feelings... it's OK.  
But, good idea... thanks!
[note to self]Learn from your mistakes Mike... learn from your misakes...
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Yep, we know it's suboptimal and will be fixing this.
Sorry about that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This happens when viewing any article and curiously whilst posting this message. I see the capital L and half an o before the page stops.
Admittedly, I'm using Windows7 with IE8 in compatability mode so it's probably not CP but MS. Can check tomorrow on XP with IE7 and Firefox if needed.
[edit] Resolution 1440 x 900 [/edit]
Fine in Firefox, but does the same in IE7 (Win XP) - same screen resolution.
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
modified on Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:07 AM
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Happens in IE7 as well. I raised this a while back with Chris, but he's been unable to reproduce it (even though it happens for me consistently). It seems to happen when you are in one of the pages, then you flick over to another tab. When you flick back to the CP tab and select a link, the Lounge link almost disappears.
Note that the horizontal scroll bar appears, and performing a mouse over on the Lounge link brings it back to its normal position - and the horizontal scroll disappears.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: performing a mouse over on the Lounge link brings it back to its normal position - and the horizontal scroll disappears
OOh - so it does! Well spotted Pete. I'm suprised Chris hasn't been able to reproduce, that's two machines I've got it on 
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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Yes, spotted this one yesterday but haven't had a chance to nail it.
It's certainly an odd one!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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please add a sticky message to the Java forum, it desperately needs a message quality boost.
[ADDED]
That has been fixed, thank you!
PS: you may want to remove its Reply and Email buttons
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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
modified on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:50 PM
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FF3.0.6
The message being replied to is in a fixed width box instead of spanning the available space.
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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This is in response to the bug you posted "Reply to this post, the edit box is as disgustingly wide as the post being replied to. Not the width of the monitor"
IE was not following the overflow:scroll directive in PRE tags that would allow me to make the width expandable while also having extra wide parts scroll, so I made it fixed width in order to force it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Meet the new bug, same as the old bug. 
This IMO is a step backwards. It makes every posting fugly on my 1600x1200, the prior problem was only an issue when someone idioted in a 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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There is a site bug when using chrome, whereby if you open up for example the lounge, the latest news box on the right, covers the 'Search Messages' text and the 'Set Options' button.
Cheers,
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I'm running Chrome and can't repeat the problem. Maybe a Ctrl+F5 to clean things out?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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