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Just quit smoking? 
My point was two-fold (hence the use of two sentences to represent it):
1) The private reply feature is nice to have, on occasion.
2) Giving my email address to anyone i reply to is less than desirable.
If you say #1 would be better accomplished via a link from the profile page (or some other less-obvious manner), i won't disagree. But it is useful, and i'd hate to see it eliminated completely - regardless of how much you hate getting email.
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Shog9 wrote:
Just quit smoking?
how *ever* did you guess? 
My point is a lot of people jump into a discussion pointlessly.
I was clearly not advocating getting rid of private emails, that is a function of the user profile, no need to change that and not under discussion which was all about how the message boards for articles are being needlessly watered down by not having all communication about an article go through that article's publicly viewable discussion board.
What you did in effect was water down my suggestion by going off on a tangent that didn't apply here. 
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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John Cardinal wrote:
I was clearly not advocating getting rid of private emails, that is a function of the user profile
Used to be a link from those, but i think it disappeared after someone started spamming from them... It's been a while though.
John Cardinal wrote:
What you did in effect was water down my suggestion by going off on a tangent that didn't apply here.
Yeah... i do that.  
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Does the messages posted count decrease when a message gets deleted? Inquiring minds need to know. And no, I ain't gonna test it.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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Not now that messages are marked "Message Deleted"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
do you ever feel like your life is missing that tiny little piece of paper that you fold up to put under the wobbly leg of the dinner table...
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Could we have a list of articles rated as tutorial/beginner, or maybe it could be added to the article search criteria?
Thanks.
Elaine (desperately learning fluffy tigress)
The tigress is here 
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Here's one[^] I prepared earlier.
(and look! A bug!  )
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
do you ever feel like your life is missing that tiny little piece of paper that you fold up to put under the wobbly leg of the dinner table...
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Thanks Chris, I have been sent this link before but how do you find it from the front page?
I can't find it there, in the articles serch or the site map 
The tigress is here
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On the front page, there is a table titled "Latest Tutorials", right above the Industry News section. You can't click on the title, but if you click on the arrow at the top right of the table, it takes you to the Tutorials[^] page.
Jon Sagara
As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks.
Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles
J.O.N.S.A.G.A.R.A.: Journeying Operational Neohuman Skilled in Assassination, Galactic Analysis and Rational Astrophysics
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Bah, that's too easy - we should have to hold CTRL+ALT+PrntScrn while clicking that little arrow...
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It would be really useful if the article stats were shown on the member's articles pages.
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Be excellent to each other
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One of my articles has been on the receiving end of some 1 votes. The annoying part about this is that they didn't have the decency to explain why they felt that the article/code was so poor. So I'd like to suggest that it should be made compulsory to leave a comment when giving an article a 1 rating even if it is just to say "I gave you a 1 as I think your a tosser"
"I think I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say huh?" - Buffy
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My guess about some possible reasons for someone to do this (in general):
* Author annoyed the voting member with some comment in the past, and this is a simple case of revenge.
* Voter has a competing article in the same category and wants to vote the author down to lower their rating. Possibly related to ensuring their article or other articles they prefer instead to make it into the monthly article competition.
* Voter thinks the rating is too high. They likely don't think the article is a 1. They just want to knock down the rating for no particular reason at all.
Basically, I am saying that some people have an agenda when voting. They have some kind of bias. For example, I think some people will vote for an author higher, if they have something in common with the author (e.g., nationality).
I'd like to see membership levels granted solely on the basis of article and message count, not length of membership. And restrict voting to members who have contributed something - messages and/or articles. People with 0/0 should not be allowed to vote.
I'd also like to see a volunteer panel of CodeProject members/staff that ensures an unbiased component to the rating of any article.
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The general consensus on this is that forcing people to comment on a "1" vote will mean you will have lots of:
1 - asdfsdfg
comments.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
do you ever feel like your life is missing that tiny little piece of paper that you fold up to put under the wobbly leg of the dinner table...
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Although it certainly would not hurt to display some text to them when they do vote a 1 to the effect of "It is most helpful to the author if you post a comment explaining how the article could be improved" with an easy link or something so it's optional but reminded to them.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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What's the possibility of allowing authors to update their own articles themselves, even after they have been edited/moved by CodeProject staff? Much like how unedited article submissions work right now.
It just seems like this would be a quicker way of getting the latest fixes out to members, as I suspect the typical update is something simple like a replacement zip file with bug fixes/minor features, and no changes to article text except for maybe the history section. The updated article could still go into a queue for eventual review by the editors.
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After an update, the article should be marked "changed", or it could go back to "unedited contributions" until the next review.
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Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language!
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LATELY (within the last week) after I post a reply to a message in a forum, and then have moved on to reading some other messages, about 1 minute or so later, I am ..POOFED.. back to the message I had just posted as a reply. VERY annoying 
Is this some crap IE bug on my end or something you changed at your end 
Thanks.
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It's happening to me, too.
Jon Sagara
As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks.
Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles
J.O.N.S.A.G.A.R.A.: Journeying Operational Neohuman Skilled in Assassination, Galactic Analysis and Rational Astrophysics
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Hi,
Whenever we click a ZIP or EXE downloadable files from CP, it asks for a logon. Good. But after logon, it just opens up the same article page. It would be great, if it opens the article page and additionally emits a small Window.ONLoad JavaScript to start downloading the zip/exe which has been clicked also.
It would just mean passing one more additional querystring and a small JavaScript trick.
This, I hope, would make CP more user-friendly and would reduce a superflous click required to start the download. Is'nt it?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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In Discussion forums, a different quirk is encountered. It allows to login, but instead of coming back to the user_reply.asp, it goes to CP Homepage.
We need to click back button twice and refresh the page to get the user_reply.asp with logged on credentials refreshed.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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Hi,
I observed a small quirk/discrepancy in CodeProject logon page. Before the page loads, if type I the username and tab it and then type the password and before I finish typing my password if the page load completes, the window.onLoad shuffles the control back to the username field.
I think if the textbox username is not empty, this focus need not be done. Otherwise, one would find having the password being keyed on into the username and one would et 'Please enter password' message validation.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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hi
can you put some SOAP information on this great site
The current information is vary little and is same that comes with microsoft documentaion
can you provide something more then that
i do expect it from codeproject
i have asked some questions about SOAP and they are never been answerd
plz look in to this matter.
good luck
Keeping IT up.
Love is Photogenic,It requires a dark to develope
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I've got used to the new set and rather like it. I've a suggestion to make - how about changing the admin message icon to red?
Wouldn't that stand out better?
Cheers,
Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar
Google talk: binarybandit After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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hi chris,
what's going on with the deleted messages ?
is is voluntarily that they do not disapear from the forums anymore but just get empty with an easily recognizable title such "[Msg deleted]" ?
I really prefered the old behavior, but if there are any explainations on the choice, i'm all listenning...
thanks,
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
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