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Yes - there are a ton of places we need to add explanations. We're slowly making a list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I started a draft of an article, of course it was in its very initial stage
I kept saving with "do not publish work in progress" checkbox checked but it
wouldn't save it as such. I think it got to the editors and of course they whacked it
 since it needed a lot proof reading and the content was probably at 20%.
Is there a bug on that checkbox?????
Becker
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Sorry about that - I'll look into what happened.
The article is still there so we can resurrect, edit and give it some lovin' if you would like us to look after it,
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When posting questions in the forums, how about displaying a list of CP articles that match words found in the subject line with a label "Have you tried these articles yet?"
Or listing google results or a google search link with the subject line?
Of course, people do not always use the subject line properly so I'm not sure how you would really be able to implement it.
I guess my main point is that it might be helpful, after someone has posted a question or just before, to try to automatically direct them to possible places to look until a real person answers their question. It would also help for when people post questions that are basically going to be answered by someone else googling or searching articles.
So, it's not a feasible idea, but maybe someone else can build on it.
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This has been in our plan for ages, and we were hoping the 'Mark question as answered' link in the message boards would give us a small number of messages to which we could perform fast queries to search for potential answers.
However, we're working on a revamp of the Q&A system that will make this a little easier for us
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I figured you had something in the works with the survey/questions you had out there on the subject. Sounds good!
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In my latest messages I have a link (obvious I know), but it does not go to the appropriate message. Click[^]. It should go to this.[^]
My failometer has shot off the end of the scale!
I seem to have misplaced my ban button.. no wait... found it!
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I was hoping to get a fix in place before you noticed 
Fixed locally, will upload to live this afternoon.
Fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified on Friday, June 12, 2009 4:51 PM
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When a message is modified you get the [modified] in the subject and a timestamp inside the message.
This is nice and all but the timestamp doesn't mean much since the timestamp is in the local time of the server (I'm guessing).
Is it possible to have the same as the timestamp of posting.
Something like [Modified 10min ago]
I know it's not a mind breaking suggestion, but would be nice.
(alternative could be to display the server time on the page)
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: Something like [Modified 10min ago]
This is harder because that value is baked into the message. I'd have to store a "modifed" date as well as a posted date, and for the amount it's used I'm not convinced it would be worth the work.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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how about adding a field to the table?
or using GMT, that way it would be off by only 1 or 2 hours 
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
DISCLAIMER: this message may have been modified by others; it may no longer reflect what I intended, and may contain bad advice; use at your own risk and with extreme care.
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It seems to me the site needs some way to flag people who offer no useful input but simply snipe at other people postings (eg Paresh Gheewala). All he does is vote 1 on all manner of articles that he clearly doesn't understand. The big problem with this is that if he (or someone like him) is the person to vote on your article then it ends up in Code Project obscurity... after all, I know I don't tend to read articles with a rating of 1. Perhaps people who only ever vote 1 should be flagged to admins,.. also perhaps it should force a low voter to make a comment so that the article writer gets some feedback and the chance to make changes and or respond. Just a thought.
Cheers,
Paul
Paul Coldrey
http://www.lumient.com.au/
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Paul Coldrey wrote: It seems to me the site needs some way to flag people
Yes, we do need that, and the good news is, you have just used it.
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We do have systems in place to try and spot these but people who vote 1's also vote 5's.
If someone votes 1 then you can vote on their voting message and vote to remove their message. Removing their message will remove the vote.
So you've got the power to undo this kind of abuse.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Cool - Nice work guys. I remember a while back one of my articles got a 1 vote and there was no message. I have no problem with 1 votes but I figured it was pretty uncool to vote 1 and not even say why,.. doesn't give the author much chance to address the issues. Anyhoo, if a message is now required then it sounds like the whole problem is sorted. Thanks for running such a great site - keep up the good work  .
Paul Coldrey
http://www.lumient.com.au/
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Admin,
This is not an important thing anyway but a cosmetic one to group related messages within the same timespan or a similar criteria.
Just observe message id 3076789 and 3076790. We both have shared the same thought and it seems they have been posted in a timespan of less than a minute, when one can not know that another thread exists. Perhaps in these circumstances, if there is an option to move or club one of the message as a child of another or similarly, it would help in easy reading through of messages right, at least for the posterity right?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Good idea that is already in the works.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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CP Team,
I haven't been watching the 'high load' messages for a while but at least for the last couple of days, the message "-- Unable to load messages due to high load. Please try again --" keeps hitting at least 6 times for the strike frequency of 10 and hence I would like to bring the same to your kind attention.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Hi,
ASP.NET Forum is showing error after it gets loaded:
"-- Unable to load messages due to high load. Please try again --"
Regards
Saanj
There is no foolish question, there is no final answer...
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I'll see if anything has changed or if there are some processes that are running at the wrong time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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We seriously do need. I suggest that pick something like 5 people for each forum (from different geographical locations) so that there is at least 1 to 2 moderators active always. I am willing to explain or discuss on this more, but I would like to know your thoughts first.
Here is a thread, that you might want to read: Answering questions in the forums[^]
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: 5 people for each forum
5 might be too small figure. If the query appears too late, then a few users would get turned away. A model similar to ASP.NET forums might be adopted which works fine in ensuring that rotten apples do not get mixed up in the basket.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: 5 might be too small figure. If the query appears too late, then a few users would get turned away.
HELLO!
I'm not proposing a "filter" moderation. I'm proposing a moderation, which can take place as and when required (like, if an abusive post is made, the moderator will remove it, warn the user or ban him if he repeats this stuff).
I absolutely, by no means am proposing that someone should sit and click "OK" before every message can appear on the forum! That would be insane. 
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Thanks for clarifying Rajesh. I think then it should be fine. Currently, I think, our BackRoom has been designed that way. If you see the headers of BackRoom, CG is one of the moderator.
Perhaps, CP Team can consider that implementation as a pilot and invest that experience of moderation to other forums too.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Great idea. I am agree with you. So many times, irrelevant questions get flooded into forums. Those need to be filtered and sorted out. But on the other side, answers may be delayed because of the late publishing of questions. Because we can not guarantee that 2-3 users will always track. I think all gold or above contributor should have rights to moderate so that the queue does not become lengthy. But I really like your idea. 
Regards
Saanj
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