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Well, I'm not advocating down votes - I'm advocating a points plateau that is eventually reached before the 1-week cutoff period. Down-voting could potentially force the article to be deleted before the author had a chance to improve 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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I was thinking that showing who approved an article may help, but I then realised this would make a lot of people gun shy.
Accumulation of points is a great idea. I'll add that (high) on the list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Very good. I appreciate that, I really think it will stimulate the popularity of whole process, and reduce the number of mishaps in the article approval process.
And yeah, please don't publish the approvers, and don't publish the points (except maybe to the article's author himself); if you want to publish anything at all, just show how many people have expressed their appreciation.
A few more suggestions:
- you might want to e-mail notifications to the approvers when the not-yet-approved article gets updated by its author.
- please make sure we can change our judgement;
- don't forget to reward the approvers appropriately! (it is bad enough they loose points when their comments get removed, as I suspect).
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I certainly think the approval should be 2 step process, having a single button is too easy to click.
Have a check box under the list of approval requirements with wording 'The Article Meets the Requirements' and the user must check this and then click the button.
Under the list of approval requirements add an additional entry which states, 'Feedback comments have been addressed where necessary'
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I would like to suggest that article approval (on "pending" articles) require multiple approvals, say five.
Done.
Please also see my blog[^] for a discussion of the changes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Messages are automatically signed with a special member's signature based on optional signature a member can put in options.
It would be much better to make a consistent signature for comments as well.
Motivation: Messages are just fine. When later I started commenting the Questions and Answers, I noticed the signature is always the same as my member ID, not as my signature used in Messages. This is inconsistent and, to some degree, causes loss of identity. In my personal example: my full name is "Sergey A Kryukov". I've chosen member ID "SAKryukov" and added signature "Sergey A Kryukov". Using the later as a member ID would not work, because more that two members have exact same combination of names (including middle initial), and few more have the same surname and/or combination with given name.
Apparently, only the combination of full name and member ID gives good identity token; and this works well for Messages.
However, in comments to Answers people say: "Hey, SAKryukov, good call! My 5!". First, I prefer using my name, secondly, people not always can identify me directly as an author of the Article and Messages.
By same reasons, even more important to use the signature in article. How am I suppose to cite my own article, as written by SAKryukov?
Finally, this signature should called (optional) "full name" and places in first tab of "Setting".
Thank you for understanding.
Sergey A Kryukov
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I understand the points you've rasied and they are good ones. However, comments are meant to be small comments, not big discussions, and there is a tendancy for some members to have large signatures which would very quickly overwhelm the comment layout.
The major issue you raised is one of identity, and there is an associated issue here: identity spoofing. We force members to have unique names to ensure that one member doesn't try and pass themselves off as another member to make it seem like the other member is saying things they aren't.
Can you think of a way to show a Display name in a way that makes it clear that if someone calls themselves "Sergey A Kryukov" and acts in a way that makes it seem like they are you, the casual reader will see clearly that they aren't actually you?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you Cris,
1) I looks like your argument on spoofing is irrelevant. I only say that you should provide exact same display of ID/Name in Comment as in Message. If you're not afraid of spoofing for Messages, why should you do for comments? The techniques for spoofing are exactly the same. My idea is: make it 100% consistent: Comment like Messages (except for the lack of tree structure for comments).
2) In practice, big part of comments to Questions and Answers are no shorter that the Messages (and I understand that: people have arguments over value and rationale of technique).
Thank you.
Sergey A Kryukov
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forum messages show both the account name, which is heavily spoof-protected, and the sig, which is free.
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Henry appears to have 2 stalkers. One is univoting his most recent messages and the other is reporting that his most recent messages are being univoted.
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Some members have a place where we can leave messages that will be seen by everybody on the bottom of their profile page. I searched all the settings tabs and couldn't find where to add one of my own like here:
ThatRaja[^]
Any suggestion welcome!
modified on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:56 PM
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Hi Manfred,
On your profile page, under your picture there is a "Create your blog" button.
If you will click it, the board will be created.
Let me know, if this does not work for you.
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Thanks for that! Worked like a charm.
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Oh, I always thought "Create Your Blog" was to create some sort of automatic feed so that technical blogs would show up on Code Project in addition to their original source. Perhaps this could be reworded to be more clear (e.g., "Create Profile Forum")?
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Actually I see no use for the button at all. Some/Long time ago it wasn't there, all that was offered was the "New Message" widget. Now I can understand CP doesn't want to maintain 7+ million forums when only some ten thousand are actually needed; so why not have the widget create the blog automatically the first time it gets clicked?
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I concur.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I'll change the wording.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is there not a yellowish strip across the bottom of your Main Profile Page?
There should be. Mine has 'FAQ' in green and the standard 'New Message' widget.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Hello Henry,
Happy New Year to you and your family !!!
And Congrats for MVP once Again !!!
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Abhijit Jana wrote: Happy New Year to you and your family !!!
The same to you and yours Abhijit.
Abhijit Jana wrote: And Congrats for MVP once Again !!!
Thank you, and the same to your good self.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Apparently, you only see that if you first click "Create Your Blog". I just did that and now I have a forum to post inane stuff... yay!
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aspdotnetdev wrote: a forum to post inane stuff
I'm not sure the weight factors there are positive...
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aspdotnetdev wrote: I just did that and now I have another forum to post inane stuff... yay!
FTFY.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Yeah, I really should stop posting inane crap in the main forums. 
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my permanent suggestion: avoid unsorted lists, in particular list the MVP's in alphabetical order, that makes it a lot easier to browse.
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