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so you're fine with the fact that people can make the ratings numbers meaningless by voting multiple times for the same article and by voting for their own articles (multiple times)? and any attempt to add some validity to them is pointless because it's easier to "live with it" ?
-c
Smaller Animals Software, Inc.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
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Chris Losinger wrote:
so you're fine with the fact that people can make the ratings numbers meaningless by voting multiple times for the same article and by voting for their own articles (multiple times)?
Not really. But fraud is a problem in any voting system, and short of severly limiting who can vote (the panel suggestion), i doubt anything else will work. Let's face it: the people abusing the system now obviously do not care whether it has validity or not. I think it's obvious that most of them have too much time on their hands already, and so extra restrictions probably wouldn't make too much difference.
Meanwhile, the side-effects of some of these suggestions seem rather ugly: temporary user accounts created for the sole purpose of voting down an article, posts with meaningless comments included just for the sake of having comments, potentially extra overhead in maintaining the site...
I guess my point is, no amount of restrictions will make an a**hole less of an a**hole. It is to be hoped that someone engaging in unfriendly behavior will gain some maturity and stop, get bored and stop, get hit by a truck and stop... But life being what it is, we all suffer because of others.
And if words were wisdom, I'd be talking even more. The Offspring, I Choose
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You forgot to mention the $25 admin fee for voting 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
You forgot to mention the $25 admin fee for voting
If all my 1-voters have CP $25 per vote we might be able to buy 5 extra mirror servers 
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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I usually only rate an article if I feel it is worth a 5. It is kinda like the old saying "If you don't have something nice to say then don't say it at all".
-Jack
To an optimist the glass is half full.
To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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With the recent changes in the page layout, (ad on the left) the formatting of some of the articles is now to the point where the article text scrolls off the right side of the screen, even in 1024x768. For an example, see http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/rsprevfontcmb.asp. Please correct this if possible, because it really detracts from the usability of the site.
Thank you,
-Anatoly
Anatoly Ivasyuk is co-founder of DTLink Software, a company specializing in Internet software and technologies. He is the author of DTLink's Windows products: AnswerTool (email response management), AppUpdate (an ActiveX control that makes your software self-updating), and Personal Stock Monitor (investment management software)
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The bad formatting there is created when the code inside the <pre> tags is too long. Since the text block extends all the way over the rest of the page is formatted with the text extending over as well.
Not much to improve formmating except to ask the author to put some line breaks in his code so it doesn't do that.
James
Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki
"Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book,
One brown mouse sitting in a cage."
"One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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James T. Johnson wrote:
Not much to improve formmating except to ask the author to put some line breaks in his code so it doesn't do that
The problem with that idea is what screen width do you format for? 1024 pixels is a nice size, any smaller and the code starts to look like sh!t.
I think a better idea would be for the <pre> tags to have a horizontal scroll bar. I have seen some articles with this, but I don't know how to do it.
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CPUA 0x5041
Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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PJ Arends wrote:
I think a better idea would be for the <pre> tags to have a horizontal scroll bar. I have seen some articles with this, but I don't know how to do it.
I've seen them as well but don't remember where. If you could point one out I could disect the HTML (if you don't feel like it ). I think someone mentioned that the submission wizard preview puts scroll bars on, but the final version doesn't have it. 
James
Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki
"Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book,
One brown mouse sitting in a cage."
"One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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Boy you screwed that post up didn't you
If I could find the article back that had the scrollbars, I would take a look at the HTML myself, but I can't remember either
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CPUA 0x5041
Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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You fixed it, ignore my screwup comment
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CPUA 0x5041
Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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Yeah, I didn't think anything of the <pre> tag you had in the text so I went and hit post knowing that it would look ok. Switched to another window while the page loaded then when I came back I yelped :-P
Perhaps another suggestion for would be for the Quote Selected Text button to change < and > to < and > so that doesn't happen 
James
Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki
"Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book,
One brown mouse sitting in a cage."
"One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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If you find an article where the formatting is screwed up then send us a comment and we'll fix it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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This is not a suggestion, it´s a question:
Let´s assume that I send an article at 30th march, not using the wizard. It´ll probably take some time to the article be published (3, maybe 4 days). Will it enter the article competition ?
Still about this topic... I´ll not send the article throught wizard because the file sizes are greater than 1.00MB, and the wizard doesn´t allow sending files greater than this. Suggestions: Why not raise this limit ?
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
My latest article:
Pentominos - A C# implementation of the famous Puzzle Game
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RaceX???
Nish
I am looking for a free racing game. Old style racing game without any complicated 3D stuff. Around 4 MB download. If anyone has such a game, please inform me.
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If I don't get time to post all submissions recieved before the 30th then I'll delay putting up the voting form till I have them processed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Can you do something about that color of the link? The blue on orange is starting to make me feel ill 
Petty? Yes, but painful on the eyes when going to look at the update list :-P
James
Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki
"Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book,
One brown mouse sitting in a cage."
"One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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So the yellow is OK, but the orange should go? Or the blue should go and the orange stay? Or change the grey, take away the yellow, mix the blue with the orange and add some purple?
(sorry - I'm starting to hallucinate on flu tablets)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Just stay away from black and white, it's so drab...
Nick Parker
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Chris
I my recent article on drag/drop I have used a nested table with some amazing colors. Just check it out. You might want to use a similar color scheme. It's really stunning and well I know you'd really love it...
Nish
I am looking for a free racing game. Old style racing game without any complicated 3D stuff. Around 4 MB download. If anyone has such a game, please inform me.
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The yellow and orange is fine, its the blue on the orange that is the problem, the links at the top for FAQ, What's New, etc use black for the link color so that would be a great choice
Chris Maunder wrote:
(sorry - I'm starting to hallucinate on flu tablets)
Hope you get better soon Or are you on flu tablets just to hallucinate? :-P
James
Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki
"Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book,
One brown mouse sitting in a cage."
"One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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Dont worry James. I told Chris M to take a look at the wonderful color scheme I used on thoise nested HTML tables.
I guess he'll get a pointer or two from that, and might even give me back the Lounge-Rights
Nish
I am looking for a free racing game. Old style racing game without any complicated 3D stuff. Around 4 MB download. If anyone has such a game, please inform me.
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I just fiddled with the 'What's new' page and *just* realised you meant the link on the homepage.
/bonk
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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