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Actually the articles that are well written *AND* complex tend to get a lot *more* votes than simpler articles.
At the end of the day everyone defines "good", "excellent", "complex" etc. slightly differently, so everyone is voting based on their own standard. Even if we get to rate an article on different points, there still needs to be a single averaged score anyway.
To me it would be better to rate an article out of 10 - that way you can rate a good but simple article just a bit less than an good and more complex article.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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I think that using 10 values can be a solution (and more easy).
Anyway consider that there are also some articles with many high votes that are quite easy.
I usually for example vote 5 if the article is well written and about an argument that I known well because I can exactly understand if the content is good. But there are also many other articles very well written and with an advanced argument that I can simply vote again 5. In my opinion these 2 votes are completely different but I must vote both article with the same values.
Davide
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Why do you truncate small messages? How does the alogrithm work because I often find that 2 words will be trucated.....
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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We truncate because sometimes people write massive emails many members were complaining their email boxes were getting filled.
The algorithm just does a split and add. If there's a message you're seeing that's been truncated badly let me know and I'll see what's going on
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Perhaps setting a charcater limit would be a beter option/
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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True. Message upto certain number of characters should be acceptable.
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Just observed a discrepancy. I think all links like 'Reply', 'Email', 'Get Link' for messages posted by moderator in all forums with subject 'How to get an answer to your question' must be disabled right.
Currently I see all links are active including 'Spam/Abuse' except 'Reply'
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This allows the people to voice their opinion, you aren't a Nazi are you?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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IMHO Email, Get Link and Rate make sense in such case.
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No.
People should be able to Reply, email me personally and get a permanent link to the message.
And if people want to mark admin as spam or abuse then they have the right to voice their opinion.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Does the List articles by search box work for anyone?
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Where? 
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At http://www.codeproject.com/script/articles/list_articles.asp[^]. I'm entering the name (try yours), and nothing shows up (Firefox, IE6).
Besides, jumping from my profile[^] using "Articles submitted: 1 - Contributor" also shows nothing, though it is not the rule (most often, a list of person's articles is displayed OK). At first I thought that's because my article is pretty antiquated, but it rather looks like some scripting problem.
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Thanks for the heads up
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I open CodeProject and see the list of recent articles posted to the Lounge, but the titles are often truncated. So I hover my mouse over them to see the full title and I get...
...the person who posted it and when. 
Can we please get the whole title name in the popup tooltip, followed by the name of the person who posted it and when? This would make the main page much more useful.
(It's such a small change to make! )
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Where are the tooltips?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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When you first go into the CP site they're over on the far right side where you see the most recent threads for the Lounge, etc.
I get tooltips when I hover over one of the thread titles (I'm using Firefox 2.0)
- Don
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Ahh yes, I see them now.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Some people have the habit of signing the messages with an email address. Mailto: addresses are dangerious since spam robots would harvest them.
Can something be done when a user posts an email address, we can warn from posting or mask it as user (at) domain.com from user@domain.com?
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spam robots are dangerous for them, not for the security of the site itself, so i would say that i don't really bother if they don't even care posting their email address like this.
the more important point i see is when one ask a question on a forum and gives his email for other to reply to. THIS is bad because it breaks the purpose of the forum (which is to share knowledges between everyone, and not to give private answers)...
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toxcct wrote: THIS is bad because it breaks the purpose of the forum
True. I agree to you whole-heartedly. The purpose of forum is to address a larger audience and a good answer should get qualified on par a knowledgebase from the experienced developer and not promote a one-to-one private instant messaging kind of scenario.
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