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I propose that a new style of article be implementing in the style of a wiki that everyone can collaborate on and add entries to.
Sub categories, aside from programming articles would be things like a wiki on "Tools" for programmers, "hardware" etc.
I forsee this resulting in a nice centralized location for an up to date resource which would answer those many frequently asked questions in the lounge regarding hardware and software.
From the article side it would encourage everyone to contribute small pieces of knowledge solving the "snippet" short article conundrum that has faced us lately where things that are too small to be a full article are not posted.
As well it would encourage people who wouldn't normally write a full article to contribute a small key peice of knowledge.
Guidelines for the scope of the overall wiki style article would need to be in place to confine each to a specific area of interest.
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Thats a good idea. The original author should be informed of the proposed changes and he/she can let them through, or he/she can just select a check box signifying that it is editable without consent of each little change.
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I agree it's a good idea but given the trouble recently with "spammers" and garbage articles it'd be quite a hassle to control. Just my thoughts the people who could moderate over them often don't have enough time to.
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Great idea! I like the idea of "wiki" based programming. Then articles/code could evolve by everyone helping out. It would also be nice to have versioning so that a person can travel back in the article/code history and obtain earlier versions if they desire.
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I am very curious to see what was written in the [message deleted] posts, especially when there are angry replies. You should just delete everything including the replies because the curiosity kills me.
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It makes clicking links seem less futile. Also, it adds an element of mystery to the whole "forum experience". Yeah... 
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Shog9 wrote: It makes clicking links seem less futile. Also, it adds an element of mystery to the whole "forum experience". Yeah...
It's so hard to write sarcasm because the whole tone-of-voice thing is missing. Are you sure people understand that you're serious about this?
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Does it matter? 
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That also adds an element of mystery to the whole "forum experience". Yeah...
What's in a sig?
This statement is false.
Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
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I don't like the censor either, but if there are replies then I don't want to see the whole thing deleted. It might be possible to create a purgatory forum that the thread can be moved to if it was started by a post that is ultimately marked as spam or abuse.
Actually, what irritates me the most is that Kyle's actions forced legitimate long time members like Jörgen to spell his name incorrectly in order to maintain an account. If that were me then I'd treat that as the ultimate insult.
The other thing that irritates me is that Kyle used to restrict himself to the Soapbox (which admittedly spends most of its time in the gutter) and he was easy to ignore there. Now he is infecting the Lounge with his antics.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: It might be possible to create a purgatory forum that the thread can be moved to if it was started by a post that is ultimately marked as spam or abuse.
Thats a great idea. Just put the messages in the stream that goes to mud lake.
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You think it's bad? I'm a cat!
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Trollslayer wrote: You think it's bad? I'm a cat!
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As you, I am curious to find out what's behind the [message deleted], because I sure have somethign to say about it!
And that's the whole point of it. Stopping the replies to the post. The suspense kills me, but it is for the better of the country whole site.
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I would love to have an RSS feed for new messages in each forum. To one-up that, it'd be even better if there were a way for users to create an aggregated feed with only the forums we care about. For instance, I might be interested in C# and ASP.NET forums while someone else might be interested in Visual C++/MFC, ATL/WTL/STL, and (Managed) C++/CLI forums. This capability is in most popular forums now-a-days.
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Dear Chris,
I've made too much tentatives to explain on the VC++ forum that the <pre> tag should be used instead of the <code> one for posting code samples, but i must reckon that this is not intuitive. but i think a simple work-around would be to simply change the caption/picture on the 2 buttons which set the styles...
on the "pre" button, write "code" instead, even if the pre bloc is copied actuall finally, i think it will prevent some "read the posting guidelines" messages 
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I think the problem is only with beginner posters. Most of us realized the pre tag early on (after getting flamed ).
But, I agree it would be a good thing.
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ednrgc wrote: I think the problem is only with beginner posters
but most of the fast/simple (and sometimes stupid) questions are from beginners, so let's keep the CSS up
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toxcct wrote: but most of the fast/simple (and sometimes stupid)
Those are usually mine 
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ednrgc wrote: Those are usually mine
lol. i don't care, as long as you use <pre> 
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I have a suggestion that its better that we separation(of course Chris) insert a editbox for insert code like signature of each member when someone enter code on this section it automatics insert two tags pre and code to his code
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i don't like this, because we can have the need of posting several blocs of code sometimes...
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I've no idea how much work it would be - server side - to identify <code> elements with embedded newlines and convert them to <pre> blocks, but it would probably be the most foolproof method of handling this.
But failing that, i think it'd be a fine idea to ditch the <code> button entirely, and label the <pre> button code. I don't think too many people use the <code> tag correctly anyway (except for myself... and i make my own buttons).
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i was as strict as "ditching" the <code> button, but why not, if that permits posts to have a better formatting...
Shog9 wrote: it would probably be the most foolproof method of handling this.
it could in at the same time transform the < into < and etc into ode samples; but there's certainly too much work there.
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toxcct wrote: it could in at the same time transform the < into <
...and insert a space on blank lines That one killed me until I finally asked.
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