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thanks for all the members in the board for the response i got for the suggestion i made.
lets wait till chris maunder and co implements any logic for this, till then as our part, we shall frequently keep posting it in the normal forums.
such that, more number of people will see this and impolement it. no sooner, iam sure that, every body follows that.
many more thanks to Russel, who put it in the suggestions forum.
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See here[^].
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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chandu004 wrote: such that, more number of people will see this and impolement it.
They don't even come back to say "Thank you" and you want them to come back and modify their post??  That's just not going to happen...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: They don't even come back
There is a way to make them come back anyway. Since in the notification email, CP sends the entire reply, they just get the full text answer at the comfort of thier email box. We can bring in a check that only first 30 characters or like that would be attached in the notification email being sent. Rest of the message should be visited on the website.
Also, for the sake of members with increased (or elevated) number of posts, this character count can be gradually increased. Platinum/Fixture members can get the full message. Wouldn't that be enough to make them feel grateful to the answerer? 
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Ok, they come back....but, as Dave tell, rarely they tells "thank you".
education!
Russell
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: CP sends the entire reply
No, it doesn't. It just sends the first few lines of the reply. There is always a link the recipient can click on to go the entire post on the site.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: We can bring in a check that only first 30 characters or like that would be attached in the notification email being sent.
Bad idea. 30 characters is utterly uninformative and just wastes the time sending the email. You may as well just put "Someone replied to your post!" and leave it at that. I for one, HATE those emails and don't use sites that send only that kind of message. I like to be reminded of what I was talking about in the post's thread.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Also, for the sake of members with increased (or elevated) number of posts, this character count can be gradually increased. Platinum/Fixture members can get the full message. Wouldn't that be enough to make them feel grateful to the answerer?
And an ever increasing load on the servers as more and more of these "with greater post count" ideas just keep getting piled on. And no, it's wouldn't give ME an impression that they feel "grateful" for an answer.
Obviously, you've never heard the expression "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
Sure, you can send the person an email to get him back to the site. There's nothing you can do to get a person to change his post's status, or even vote on the response he/she got.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Obviously, you've never heard the expression "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
There is a very interesting equivalent vernacular saying in our area which just is equivalent to this:
"You can only give the banana or de-skin it and give the banana to a person. At best, for a patient, you can take it upto his mouth. But rest taking it from there, is upto him". (The translation might not be that much effective though. But Tamil CPians would be able to better appreciate that. )
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Following the previous heated discussions, I have emailed to CyberCrime, Chennai and also I checked with my friend, who is practicing as an advocate in Chennai on how to deal with this issue.
He was suggesting to contact Kerala Law Department, who are currently in charge of IPR. A quick Google got me the following URLs:
http://www.keralalawsect.org/ipr.html[^]
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If you have an inquiry regarding Law Department contact via e-mail or post.
This site is managed by Law Department, Government of Kerala.
Email : asnodal@keralalawsect.org
Regular Mail :
The Law Secretary,
Law Department,
Government Secretariat,
Thiruvananthapuram
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But rather than me emailing them, now it would be better that a competant authority in CodeProject to write them either surface mail or via email complaining about the atrocities committed and unleashed by the LogicIndia group. I think you would have also read through Tony John's comments over here (http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=2209099&mode=all&userid=52123#xx2209099xx[^]) and hence since he says he is currently in Houston, TX; US CPians can better rescue DotNetSpider which is aimed at helping freshers out of this vicious treacherous forgers' group of LogicIndia.
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:Pounds fist on desk: This kind of **** ****in' pisses me off! Someone should sue their ***es!
-Gatsby
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Jay Gatsby wrote: Someone should sue their ***es!
and just in the wide open. Only then would the people realise their folly.
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Nicely found. Well done.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I think this will be not hard to be implemented:
Put a new button on the bottom-right (before [Modify | Delete] )on the first message on a thread with the caption Solved.
It will simply add a text label to the subject like:
[SOLVED] The subject of my question
Is it possible?
thanks
Russell
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How would you know which specific message in the thread solved the question posed in the first message?
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The button must be only on the first message of the thread, not in the others.
Only the original poster can know if it is solved,...so, when it is solved he has only to go to the first message and mark the thread as [SOLVED]
Russell
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Why not?
Russell
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We should wait for Chris & Co 's reply to this thread since they might be having some TODO's for the next version of the website.
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yes.
My suggestion was thinked to be as simple as possible to be implemented easily.
But about TODOs, relating this suggestion, I have got some addictional features:
To put in evidence the solved/unsolved threads, CP can change the color of his title or put a special icon there, or finally can send an e-mail to remaind to the OP to sign the thread as SOLVED after some hours.
Russell
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_Russell_ wrote: remaind to the OP to sign the thread as SOLVED after some hours
But not after hours. Experts-Exchange allows for 21 days since message boards involve a group colloboration effort in problem solving.
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CP can send multiple e-mail to request to 'close' a single thread:
for example after 1hour, 3h, 6h, 12h, 24h, 3days, 7d, 14d, 21d , 30d.
Of course if the thread is [SOLVED] the mails will not sended.
This let the forum board be more 'clean' and people can helps only who needs.
Russell
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_Russell_ wrote: multiple e-mail
Considering the user base and the intense furious activity on discussion forums, the load on the CP SMTP server would be really breaking its neck. This would be a very resource-consuming route. Wouldn't it be?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Wouldn't it be?
Yes, it can.
But consider that the 'remaind mails' are received only by the poster of the first message of the threads. And that (as a benefit) if they 'close' a thread nobody will add other post to respond to they.
That mails can only be used to educate the user of the forums to be correct with to who help they and to CP (leaving clean the forums)....I hope.
Russell
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Not only the original poster, but anybody could mark an answer as useful by providing it a 5 vote. We need not get anything new here, for this reason.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->ßRÅhmmÃ<-·´¯`·.
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Sounds like a plan. But I doubt how successful it would be. The reason is that alot of people asking queries here are half-assed and they won't bother to come back and click the "SOLVED" button after their query is solved. With the current system, anybody could mark answers as useful by voting 5.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->ßRÅhmmÃ<-·´¯`·.
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