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articles do that too. what would you expect?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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Is this one of those trick questions where someone makes a statement like "A man walks out of an elevator and looks at his watch. Suddenly an elephant falls from the sky. What happened." and you have to guess these things like "was he a disgruntled circus performing midget aiding an elephant in a bizarre euthanisia pact but was actually acting as a terrorist for the Swedish government?" type thing?
Yes, when you view a question it increases the view count. We spent all night thinking about what our best option was for handling views, the view count, and the displaying of the view count, and after reading up on the topic we decided that increasing the view count would provide the most benefit to our readers and authors.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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No, I was just thinking that it's a bit odd. Let's pretend I are Teh Troll, I enter a question and keep going back to it; so I can artificially increase the view count on my question. A sane person - Christian, JSOP, PO'H - comes along and sees a 'well read' question that has a lot of views so they go in to look and maybe answer - TRAPPED!
As an aside, I editted my question with extra details, a corrected spelling mistake and offers of free cash. Sadly the update went hamster-poo.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: the update went hamster-poo
If you are saying what I think you are saying, I also reported this bug here.
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As a plus, if a 1 vote message is voted off as offensive, as all this guy's no doubt will be, will it remove the vote from the article. If not then it should be.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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Yes, the actual person is
arvinder_aneja[^]
I saw him writing offensive language in Question Answer section as well.
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Viewing an entry in the QA forum I see the following message: "Your reputation enables you to edit or delete this question". However even though I can get to the edit screen, and change as much as I want, when I press the Update Question button the content reverts to the original and loses any changes.
MVP 2010 - are they mad?
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I am facing the same problem.
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Ditto.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Should be good now. Sorry about that!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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| Fixed. Sorry! cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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No problem Chris.
Thank you. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Post a Forum Answer = A member receives points for answering a question in a programming forum = 10 pt
in a programming forum such as C#, does this apply:
a) to first-level answers only to a top-level question?
b) to any reply with an "answer" icon (and thus offering good answer/bad answer votes)?
c) to any reply, including those with a "general" icon (and offering 1-to-5 votes)?
d) none of the above
whatever it is, shouldn't the replies that don't count for authority count for participation?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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Thanks for pointing this out. We're looking into it.
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total rep looks much better now; still not sure what happens to a cascade of replies, which by default get flagged as question - answer - general - general - ...
do 5-votes on "general" also count for authority?
if not, shouldn't those generals be answers by default?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: do 5-votes on "general" also count for authority?
Nope they count toward organiser.
Luc Pattyn wrote: if not, shouldn't those generals be answers by default?
I wouldn't say so. A lot of times what happens is a discussion breaks out. Of course, the author always has the option of setting their message as a question, answer, etc.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: Most often, it is not so much a discussion, but an elaboration on question and answer
I'd have to disagree. Just looked through a bunch of programming forum messages and noticed that a high percentage of them are discussion-oriented. But, yes in some cases a general message is really an answer or question. This results in the reputation being a little off but it's better to err less by assuming most messages are general/discussion. 
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you should only look at the serious ones, the ones that accumulate votes, not the off-topic ones.
By not properly awarding fived replies that are deeper in the message chain, you will discourage people; the net result may be shorter threads, or less chaining, more top-level branching. When a reward system is in place, you get more of what you reward, and less of what you don't reward.
Alternative suggestion: can I get a choice as to what type my non-header message should default to?
(preferably different for different forums, maybe just programming versus non-programming)?
Probably a bug: I think when I edit a fived message in order to change its type, the reputations are not adjusted accordingly.
 Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: you should only look at the serious ones, the ones that accumulate votes, not the off-topic ones.
Is there an algorithm we can use to determine which messages are off-topic?
Luc Pattyn wrote: can I get a choice as to what type my non-header message should default to (preferably different for different forums, maybe just programming versus non-programming)
Sorry Luc - while I understand this would save you having to click a radio button, the effort involved is not justified considering our current laundry list of things we're trying to improve.cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I had a couple of thoughts on the Quick Questions/Answers, but I don't frequently read the site bugs and suggestions so I'll apoligize right away if you've already had these comments or if you've already posted reasons why things are they way they are.
First of all, there was a post in the lounge discussing the Accept Answer. I'd noticed that sometimes questions had a different border/style and sorted to the top which was very helpful. I only have one question out there and I actually answered it myself. When I look at the question I do not see anything that allows me to mark it as the Accepted Answer. Perhaps that is because I'm the original question poster?
My second thought about Quick Questions/Answers is this. Sometimes I read a question and think I can help the person but need more information, so I either type a possible answer while asking for more info or post a comment on the question. The problem is that later I have trouble finding these posts again to see if the original questioner has responded. When we look at the My Posts and then choose to look at Answers, could we be provided more information about the actual question? Like who originally posted it, and who/when it was last updated, and how many answers it currently has? I think that would be helpful. Or somehow mesh in the concept of being emailed everytime the question is updated like the message boards do? Or if not email (because that can get annoying sometimes) some other notification? Or is something like this already there and I'm just not seeing it?
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Kschuler wrote: Perhaps that is because I'm the original question poster?
Correct
Kschuler wrote: The problem is that later I have trouble finding these posts again to see if the original questioner has responded.
We'll address this with a subscription mechanism that's now high on our priority list.
Kschuler wrote: When we look at the My Posts and then choose to look at Answers, could we be provided more information about the actual question?
I'll bring this up with the team.
Kschuler wrote: Or is something like this already there and I'm just not seeing it?
Again, subscription system we'll be implementing will address it. Not in place yet.
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