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How's that?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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that's fast..
- A random opportunity is like a tall chair, those who sit hang on, those who hang on fall
L.W.C. Nirosh.
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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Good Morning! I see we have invoked the shuffling of the forum list order again eh? 
ForumList.Sort( OrderType.Shuffle);
Oh and missing once again is the Design forum. Could be more but that's what jumps out at me.
Last modified: after originally posted -- missing forums as well
led mike
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I swear. I didn't touch anything. 
(OK, maybe I touched something. All fixed...)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:49 PM
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... the last time the forum list got trashed I pointed out that this would've been something that should've been covered in the design documentation to make the fix (with unchanged layout) straitfoward.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4....
-- El Corazon
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It's nothing to do with a design document. It's a data entry issue
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I too want a fixed order of forums in the table. I tend to know by heart where the
important ones are (important to me that is), but every other month a lot of them
move columns. Please stop this from happening. Here are two suggestions:
1.
Order them explicitly by some objective criterium, e.g. alphabetically or by decreasing
message count (and downwards first); that way they will seldom move, and when they move
it will be by just one (mostly vertical) position. Message count has the disadvantage
that some pairs may interchange rather frequently, it has the advantage new forums always
start at the bottom.
2.
give us the possibility to create our own table (user settings!) and show that instead of yours.
I would list only half of the forums, and the order would NEVER change unless I want it to.
I guess you will prefer 1 over 2 for load and effort reasons.
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I do like those suggestions and will see if we can do it in a way that doesn't bring the server to its knees.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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5+ 
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Seems to me calculating the table once every minute or so (to keep the message count somewhat
up-to-date), and using it over and over across all relevant forums, should be sufficient;
I see no real need to recreate the table for every page request (not implying that this is what
you do now, I just don't know).
Of course I would like to see some consistency in the numbers shown by a sequence of page loads;
getting served by different servers should not result in decreasing message counts for a
particular forum, unless messages really got removed that is.
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The message count is always an up to date count. Members (and moderators) sometimes do remove posts.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I was under the impression that one could not attain gold status until they had posted the requisite number of articles. Is this not the case?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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You're thinking of Platinum. Gold can be achieved by posting messages.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The small footnote that would appear at the bottom of the forum in Classic CP does not appear now. One line I could recall from it is 'Bonus levels are not applicable to Gold Members'. The other content would be a statistical table on the number of points and the level etc.
Or does it appear somewhere and am I missing it?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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It is still present on the "Who's who at the CodeProject" page, which you get by clicking
your name, to the left of the "My Settings" menu item.
I too have the impression it used to appear more frequently, so I guess it has been on
other pages too but has been removed there.
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I've not touched it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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1) Disallow voting for an article until it's been "made publicly available". There's no point in voting on it if it may not be approved. Further, it dilutes the reason for moderation.
2) When an article has been rejected, send the author an email with all of the selected reasons the article was reported (as well as how many times each reason was selected). Don't forget to include the comments made. Of course, we don't want to let the author know *who* reported the article.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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1. I find the voting useful since it show which of those articles are borderline.
2. When articles are rejected the author is already sent an email, and the author already gets message notifications from suggestions posted in the article forum. This should cover things, right?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks for pointing.
Will be fixed in next release (today)
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Add Report as Troll to message posts. If a person has been identified as troll, then anyone replying to one of the troll's posts will see message: "That person has been identified as a troll, and replies are not allowed." The troll will see nothing unusual, and won't know that replies are blocked.
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Don't agree. This would see wide abuse.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This would see wide abuse.
Not really. This would simply bring it to the attention of CP staff, not torpedo a member.
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No way!! Any troll can then "Report as Troll" a legitimate message and block replies to that, defeating the purpose of the programming forums...
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