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I *love* the idea of these kinds of contests. We've done them haphazardly in the past but I would love to have them as a regular feature.
Who's interested in filling a queue with some ideas? Maybe we start another forum dedicated to it?
As to the firehose that is the lounge, members such as yourself do an absolutely stellar job of pulling out the pearls already.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well, I would be in for a competition like this. Sounds like it could be a blinder.
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I will finally admit to often thinking for a need for something like this on CP: [^].
Glad I got that off my chest; thanks, Rajesh
yours, Bill
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“This isn't right; this isn't even wrong." Wolfgang Pauli, commenting on a physics paper submitted for a journal
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*cough*[^]
Unfortunately, despite promising to get right on it four months ago, no progress on the feature appears to have been made.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's on the TODO list. I'm just not saying where on the TODO list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: the TODO list
Or even if you can find the TODO list... 
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That's the first point on his second todo list:
1. Find the other todo lists.
"Let's see: I'm a white male, age 18-49, I have a loud mouth and a gun... I AM the American Dream." - Me
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Which does say where on the TODONT list it is.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The optimized[^] part?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Top Rated questions does not seem to be display really top rated questions but the other way around. Can you please check?
http://tinypic.com/r/2cxvps1/5[^]
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All fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I wrote a quick answer to this question: Regular Expression to accept English and German Alphabets and Space[^]
The original Preview before submitting looked fine, but after posting the page showed A-with-a-tilde, the-circle-with-four-legs etc., instead of the umlauted characters and so forth.
So I edit it, and try outside a code block - looks good so I post it back, and refresh the page. And both of them are correct!
It looks like the "initial submission" page is not using the same character set (or character translation) as the preview and QA page itself.
This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre.
Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.
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At present in a users profile you can set references to G+ and Twitter. Then these appear as follow links in the authors bio at the bottom of the articles.
Are you planning on integrating LinkedIn into the equation?
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Done
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I see you have added the Linked-in Account login mechanism, but that wasn't what I meant in the original post.
What I was referring to was the 'Follow On' links at the bottom of the bio section on an authors article e.g. at the bootom of this A Coder Interview With Dave Auld[^] you can see the Follow on links to Twitter and G+, which is of course picked up from the 'My Settings | Professional Profile | Social Networks'
I think LinkedIn is a key professional connection point.
Cheers,
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Question something says if Yes give reason, but you have to give a reason even if answering No.
Question 6 says how easy is it to do something I hadn't done, but there was no way of skipping the question or answering 'I haven't done this'.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Please see this[^] post and its thread.
/ravi
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And this one[^] which is Chris' answer from 11 years ago
And this one[^] which is a simplified version
And this one[^]
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
modified 8-Aug-13 9:13am.
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Chris,
Thank you for the topic history. I was sure that this had to of been brought up before.
I read the original argument against it (11 yrs ago) and can see where if the original poster has the power to move a thread that it could be abused.
I like the method you proposed in the third link.Quote: I still like the idea of a third option on the report flag. Wrong forum or something, select it, choose a better forum, 5 agree and off it goes.
However, I can see where mischievous members could abuse this system by bouncing a thread all over the place. Perhaps, these move requests could just be flagged for review by certain respected members to authorize?
I think that such a feature should also include a message sent to the OP about the move and include a review of the posting guidelines.
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Indeed, that's the beauty of being users of this site and not the coders.
We just have to come up with half-assed ideas and then let someone else worry about the intricacies and application of the good ones.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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TnTinMn wrote: However, I can see where mischievous members could abuse this system
Not if the functionality was made available to members whose reputation level was >= n (some magic number). This method is already in use for several site features.
/ravi
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I may be wrong, but isn't the removal of a message by members whose reputation reputation level was >(some magic number) the reason for this discussion?
A system such as this needs some checks and balances. Does voting for a thread move that is later deemed inappropriate incur a penalty to those voting for said move? Say a loss of half their reputation points.
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TnTinMn wrote: Does voting for a thread move that is later deemed inappropriate incur a penalty to those voting for said move?
I wasn't advocating voting. I think that complicates the issue - a simple "Move Thread To Another Forum" link would suffice. This is how some other functionality (available to high-rep members) works.
The system would also need a "CantMovePost" bit in the database. If Chris think a thread was erroneously moved (with the best of intentions) to forum "X" instead of forum "Y", he could simply reposition it and mark the thread "no longer moveable".
/ravi
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That's some serious archeology.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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We already have that feature. The trick is we just need to expose it to more members.
This touches on a deep but important thing I've been skirting around: allowing high rep members to edit / delete questions in the forums in exactly the same manner as in Quick Answers.
It will happen.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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