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As Chris says, people need to take responsibility for their actions. Life is full of risks, learn to deal with it.
Use the best guess
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THE main purpose of CP as I see it the logo states, is to help those who code.
So searches for problems are the face of this site.
There are far too many of terrible titles around, e.g.:
need a help for my Final year project[^]
javascript help php help[[^]
Once a valid question is answered and is deemed as useful and educational.
I think the Title should be reviewed by a CP professional, those Qs can be marked for Title editing/approval and be handled by the elderly CPers.
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
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It is already possible. The same privilege that grants us the editing of the question or answer, allows us to edit the Title and/or the Tags of the question.
The main question is... how many of those questions which had such a title are actually good?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I know it's possible,
what I am suggesting is that it will be tagged as pending for us to pick up after recognized as such.
Some Qs are actually pretty good, and might just "go below the radar" for searches, and could thus be "saved from oblivion" by the editing CPer.
Other Qs who are trash, will be deleted by the CPer.
If Chris throws in a couple of points for doing this, it would probably be answered with thrill by the gang, don't you think?
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
modified 23-Jul-13 10:43am.
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Given the number of repeated "How to" and "I want" questions, I don't think the search feature is used that much, especially by the people who should be using it.
Use the best guess
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It's a pity having so much trash around when something can be done about it though 
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
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You cannot prevent people from being lazy or stupid. Even when you tell people to check Google before posting, many of them never bother. There is a member here who regularly posts questions without proper details despite my asking every time. How do you get such people to learn without insulting them?
Use the best guess
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And who is going to sit there and revise "pending" titles all day?
Can you think of a more gutty, boring, tedious and above all pointless job, given that nobody seems to use the search facility anyway?
And what's this with the "handled by the elderly CPers" bit? Would this be because we are no use for anything else? 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I think if there were to be a category of Masterpiece Articles it would really help a lot of users.
Articles that explain in depth, easy to understand even for beginners, are full of self explanatory images (... you get the picture) should be marked as such (by those authorized to by CP admins), and as such will be available for browsing in their category link.
Many coders would love to have the great articles singled out for them to save the time and pain in searching or digging into "the wrong" article.
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
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First of all... I see your point. But...
Each person is different by learning or understanding things. An article that for you is a masterwork could be a piece of crap for other, no matter if newbie or having a deeper knowledge in that subject.
I don't want to say that is a bad idea, I am just saying that it can be not so easy and it could be a very tedious work for the CP-Staff.
On the other hand... you can already pin-point the good articles (at least the ones written a while ago) using the popularity, votes and numbers of downloads. Socketpuppeters try hard to improve their rep or their articles, but they can not compite with really good articles.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Just wondering if the RSS is fetched off a cache? Perhaps that needs to be flushed?
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I'm going to dig in today and see what's happening.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When I go to the home page, the weekly poll doesn't appear.
Why? Is it because there's a lot of spam on the text answers[^]?
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Rough night.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi,
Normally, an account should be closed with 5 reports IIRC. But sometimes an account is only closed after the 6th or 7th report, instead of after the 5th report.
Is this by design or a bug?
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Yep - easy non-code fix. Will deploy soon.
(Even though I despise the use of auto name = "My name";. Lazy!  )
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The use of auto is more impactful when using it with STL containers. It's way easier to do auto it = coll.begin() than to use the potentially long (and unreadable) typename of the iterator, specially when it adds little meaning to your code to see the type there. 
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Thanks, looks good now! 
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Hi,
Disclaimer I: I think the CP editing/revision/mentoring facility "as is" is great !
For those of you who wish to skip my usual wallow in verbosity: a summary:
1. we now have Articles, Tips-Tricks, topic-language-etc.-specific Forii
2. should there be a another category of shared technical "tidbits," where the amount, and depth, of content, is relatively small/shallow (compared to what you see, in general, on Articles, Tip-Tricks, now) ?
3. I humbly suggest CP consider a third category: let's call it, tentatively: "Hints."
4. What might a "Hint" be like:
a. fully tagged
b. very clear, and specific, in its title
c. clearly identifies the context which it is relevant to.
e. not long, code included: short
d. contains a how-to, a work-around, or a solution, or a caution, or useful-whatsoever, for some difficulty in practical programming in .NET, or whatever.
e. we leave to the Elven Rep-Meisters the awesome task of figuring out much a "Hint" is worth
~
And, now, for those of you with extra neurons for gnosis in your Broca's Area:
Disclaimer II: I have no problem, and no complaints, if ever anything I might submit to CP would be "closed:"
Just recently, I submitted a tip-trick, and, then, was notified that my "article" was "closed."
I should say that I am pretty sure I chose to submit a tip-trick, but now ... I wonder ... once a social worker: you always doubt yourself ... whether that's an effect of the training and practice, or part of the reason one chooses such a vocation ... is perhaps best left as unplumbed as why a person spends hours playing first-person shooter/splatter/gore video games
Even though, at the time I wrote up the tip-trick, I wondered if it was such an "edge case" ... in this case an inconsistency in the way a certain less commonly used WinForm style behaves ... that it would be of very limited relevance to other people:
But, having spent a few hours tearing my hair out (I'm happy to tell you that, at age sixty-nine, I have a full-head of beauteous silver-colored hair) wondering why what seemed straightforward didn't work: I then decided to transform my wrath against Sauron of Redmond, into a warning to others who might stray along the path I took.
Probably, assuming I did post a Tip-Trick, I screwed something up, in editing it, where it was submitted as an article: is that possible ?
alzheimerically, Bill
~
“This isn't right; this isn't even wrong." Wolfgang Pauli, commenting on a physics paper submitted for a journal
modified 22-Jul-13 7:16am.
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