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I would like to see CP implement portal areas for those folks that submit good numbers high quality articles.
Once a poster gets so many articles submitted of a specific rating they could have an area that is dedicated to them, with links to all their articles, and a message area just so people can discuss their code.
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We've currently got a page for every author which has all that bar the discussion board. I've been thinking about a board for a while but would it be useful or would it be an annoyance to the author?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I think you should stick with what you have. A discussion section for each article is good. I for one would find it annoying having my own discussion board. If people need to contact the author directly, they can do that quite easily also.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.
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I agree with Roger - most all comments belong in the article forums. Probably if there were forums attached to each bio, they'd be a boring mix of fanboy comments ("Chris is the bestest author ever! I'm naming all my children and pets 'Maunder'!") and people trying to pick fights based on flip comments made in the bio.
Shog9
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Maybe Java is kind of like God, it "works in mysterious ways". It seems like your apps are running slowly, because in the backgroud Java is solving world hunger, or finding the cure to cancer.
- Ryan Johnston, Don't die java!
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I originally thought a forum for each author would be nice, but thinking about it again now that I have a full-time job plus a project on the side, I realize I wouldn't have time to moderate it.
The best use IMO for such forums would be to ask questions about an article (such as one I get a lot, "how do I make the extension in article abc do xyz?"). That's about the only thing that should be posted, but I know how the net is and you'd get flames, general programming questions, and so on, all of which belong elsewhere. It'd be up to me to moderate the forum and remove all that stuff, but I know myself and I just wouldn't do it. It would likely take up a lot of my time, and wouldn't be in the least bit interesting or fun.
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I've been thinking about a board for a while but would it be useful or would it be an annoyance to the author?
How about giving the authors the right to disable it, and if not too difficult to moderate that particular board.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Currently experimenting with Mozilla, which incidentally I'm impressed with) and was amazed to see it supported the DHTML thread view on CP. My only reason for moving from NS6 to IE!
However occaisionnaly CP seems to loose my DHTML choice and present me the suggestion I use IE4.0 or Mozilla?
Are there any problems with the browser detection?
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The Obliterator
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Obliterator wrote:
was amazed to see it supported the DHTML thread view on CP
Yeah, Chris has edited the stuff so that DHTML view works on Mozilla too 
Obliterator wrote:
However occaisionnaly CP seems to loose my DHTML choice and present me the suggestion I use IE4.0 or Mozilla?
Oh! Are you using the latest Mozilla version?
Regards,
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
Click here for review[NW]
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>Yeah, Chris has edited the stuff so that DHTML view works on Mozilla too
Nice work Chris! Now wheres that quote selected function?! 
>Oh! Are you using the latest Mozilla version?
That could be the problem, I'm using the latest alpha:
Mozilla 1.1a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
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The Obliterator
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Obliterator wrote:
Nice work Chris! Now wheres that quote selected function
Talk to the Mozilla team. The text range functions don't work.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Obliterator wrote:
CP seems to loose my DHTML choice
I've noticed that as well, it seems to be intermittent.
Chris mentioned a problem with one of the servers' browscap.ini files.
Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
Arthur-Anderson, proud sponsor of the Corporate Make A Wish Foundation.
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Obliterator wrote:
However occaisionnaly CP seems to loose my DHTML choice and present me the suggestion I use IE4.0 or Mozilla?
Yep - working to find some time to work on it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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IMHO, there should be a section in the FAQ dealing with posting to the forums. Users are currently expected to understand that they must escape certain characters (& < > ), correctly format code and keywords, HTMLize links, etc. The new toolbar helps, but having some sort of reference might aid users who currently sit sadly at home, waiting in vain for their questions to be answered, unaware that an unfortunately placed < swallowed up all of their code. Not to mention the irritation sustained by the lack of clickable links in the posts of certain people.
Shog9
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Maybe Java is kind of like God, it "works in mysterious ways". It seems like your apps are running slowly, because in the backgroud Java is solving world hunger, or finding the cure to cancer.
- Ryan Johnston, Don't die java!
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Gosh Shog good idea.
We need a Dummies guide to CP.
I'm sure Chris could get the scripts to catch all the posters who have posted less than 10 messages and redirect them to the guide before posting.
Also he could authorize them with a learners license to use CP before make outright fools of themselves.
And instead of a normal head icon they could get a sausage symbol so we all would know that they were new to CP, and need to be treated with kid gloves.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I am sick of fighting with Martin, I think I will ignore his posts from here on in, and spend the time working on articles instead.
Christian Graus
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Good idea! I think earthweb had a FAQ on each section, but why not a article level as well?
Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
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i tick "Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message".
so i think the replies will e-mail to the message's author as soon as the replies are submitted.
but what will happen if the replies are being modified or deleted?
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zhoujun wrote:
but what will happen if the replies are being modified or deleted?
My understanding of the mechanism is that a mail notification is sent when you reply to a post, but not when you delete it or modify it.
Regards,
Nish
p.s. Sometimes you make a stupid reply, then quickly delete it, then suddenly remember that the original poster has got a mail notify.
p.s. to p.s. Luckily now the mail notifications don't included the entire post, so if we are lucky the embarassing bits might get dotted out
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
Click here for review[NW]
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Nishant S wrote:
My understanding of the mechanism is that a mail notification is sent when you reply to a post, but not when you delete it or modify it.
That is correct. I missed out on an XML book someone was selling because I modified a message to say I wanted it, instead of creating a new one. He was not reading the thread, only the emails.
Christian
come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002
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thanks,Nish.
then suddenly remember that the original poster has got a mail notify.
no,i did not realised that until some strict guys complained in his posting that i basically did not catch what was talking about.
you said"Luckily now the mail notifications don't included the entire post"
what do you mean?the post is filtered??
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Hey Chris,
It's ages since I've nagged ya, so here goes.
Sometimes when you are reading a thread that spans across a page break (i.e. you have click next) it would be nice if each message had a "Reply to thread starter" as well as just plain ol' "Reply" 'cause then if a message gave you a thought but you couldn't be bothered to go to the previous page to post it, you could click on our magical link and hey presto!
Whaddya think ?
(ps. gotta love the new toolbar thing, even if I haven't had a chance to use it yet  )
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Andrew.
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Nice idea, but what would happen is that people would reply to thread starter when they meant instead to reply to the current message author.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Maybe hide it, in a very small font, placed just next to the [delete] link...
Shog9
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Maybe Java is kind of like God, it "works in mysterious ways". It seems like your apps are running slowly, because in the backgroud Java is solving world hunger, or finding the cure to cancer.
- Ryan Johnston, Don't die java!
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Good point, oh well... I'll have to try and remember to shift click Next instead methinks.
Thanks!
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Andrew.
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A wording change would help that, such as
[Reply to this message] [Reply to the first message in this thread]
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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You think it would, but it won't.
As long as we get people posting "I'm trying to write a DirectX game but my screen is all black help me" as free text responses to a survey such as "What is your favourite colour" I'm going to play it safe and stick to a single option.
Besides, it's not that hard to scroll up, click on the first post and hit 'reply author'.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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