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That could be countered by creating a new type of member distinction "Most Crappy Person" 
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Tips/Tricks problem, see T102 in my CP bug tracking (link in sig).
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There now is a third alternative to John's tip; it is by another author and now it does show on the home page. Weird.
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Tips/Tricks problem, see T101 in my CP bug tracking (link in sig).
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A Tip / Trick should be a short, self contained tip on how to do something - basically a "here's how to do something". If the author has multiple ways of achieving a solution they should all be presented in the same tip, and my initial thought was to not actually allowing the author to provide an alternate at all - only allow others the ability to provide alternates
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I think you misread.
yes I understand you want the author of the original to put all his info into the original, and I agree.
My point was (and the example illustrates it) that I may have two valid alternatives that both are better than the original. Your current set-up tries to prevent me from entering two alternatives; I did manage through a little detour anyhow.
So the double point in T101 is:
(1) I think you should allow more than one alternative from an author (different from the original author); however the "post alternate" facility is missing as soon as I have entered an alternative. I don't think you should force an alternate author to shove all his alternatives in a single alternate, they may be unrelated, or have different merits.
(2) and your attempt to prevent me of adding another one is failing (some fiddling with back and forth buttons gave me the button once again).
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The UI was designed with the intent that a person would only post a single post in one sitting. A far easier way to post two is just to refresh the page and the button will reappear.
We can certainly open things up if that's what makes sense, but for now it seems, to me, to be a rare and unusual case that can be attended after other more pressing issues are fixed.
Luc Pattyn wrote: yes I understand you want the author of the original to put all his info into the original, and I agree.
My point was (and the example illustrates it) that I may have two valid alternatives that both are better than the original.
Wouldn't it be better then simply to change the "Add Alternate" button for authors so that it appears as "Update / Add to my tip"?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: just to refresh the page and the button will reappear.
OK, so why not put a little text that says so, exactly where you removed the button? that would be more user friendly. Now it looks like you want to prevent a second alternative by the same author, but you now explaining how it can be done shows you don't really want to prevent it. It is a confusing message you send.
Chris Maunder wrote: Wouldn't it be better then ...
I don't think so. I gave two alternatives, they both are better than the original, and they are independent, i.e. not related to each other. So they deserve separate boxes, separate facilities for commenting, voting, bookmarking, and mentioning on the home page. They could have come from different people altogether.
IMO it would not be correct to force people to put all their ideas on the subject into a single box. Why do you want to enforce too much structure to things that don't improve by overstructuring them?
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He meant that multiple alternates from the same person. In the example cited above, I posted a tip, and Luc posted multiple alternates. I agree though, I think I would only have posted one alternate.
There really doesn't need to be a feature that lets the tip author post an "Update to my Tip/Trick". We already have "Improve tip/trick".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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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Shouldn't we get participant points for voting in the article competitions? The reason I ask is because there's nothing in the FAQ about it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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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Correct
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Wow. Rodents.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Both accounts were created today, and your link sums up their total output. 
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Another dipshit:
pokerplayerslounge[^]
Joined today, just one post link to poker web site.
They seem to be hijacking older Q&A's. 
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I say, stuff the whole bunch of those spamming gits with casino tokens.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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... and maybe roast them slowly over an open fire?
Stuffed, roasted, ... hmmmm 
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I cannot see the comments at the bottom of this article[^].
I can see the names of people who have left comments but there is no text where the header should be. Even if I try and click the white space where the header should be the message body doesnt open.
IE7
Edit: Please ignore it was a CTRL+F5 issue 
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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It wasn't a Ctrl+F5 issue - there were rendering issues in IE7 standards mode that I've worked around. Should be good now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have emailed the problem to the editor roughly a year ago with no reply. Perhaps they are very busy. Somebody has been tracking and voting most of my comments 1 mark at all my articles.  .
Combinations in C++[^]
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Hash-container and Red-Black Tree Face-off (STL Benchmark)[^]
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Outline Text[^]
In the last article link, a kind member has been offseting my 1 mark comments with a 5 score. I do not know who is that kind member. It is understandable that my comments got 1 mark if they are unhelpful or unpleasant. In fact, you can see on my articles page[^] that almost all my comments in my articles got 1 mark! But that is not the case. I wonder who is the culprit!
Editors, if you are reading this, please help me catch the culprit!
Thanks!!
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You seem to have upset someone, somehow. I am confident that the powers that be (the little hamsters in the walls) will take care of this for you. Your blog page received some low marks as well I see.
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In fact, all my 10+ blog entries got 1 mark. I deleted all of them except one because someone had replied to that. Some of my blog entries contains some useful tips for programming but nobody would read them since they are low score. The person who did this, must have hated me very much. Perhaps he might be someone I know in real life, could even be one of my facebook friends.
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