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"If a whole bunch of Gold members..."
The "If" is a critical point.
I am talking about situation when your article appeared recently and does not have votes enough to sustain "downgrade" vote. Its enough to monitor home page once per day to make sure that you could kick out any fresh article you want. Once kicked out the article will not gather much popularity.
I just suggest some points to improve site in unobtrusive way. Unfortunately none of responsibles answered.
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Sergei Arhipenko wrote: "If a whole bunch of Gold members..."
The "If" is a critical point.
Very true.
Sergei Arhipenko wrote: situation when your article appeared recently and does not have votes enough to sustain "downgrade" vote.
Then, you wait awhile ( how ever long that may be ) until more readers actually vote on it. I think that is why the popularity score is put up there as well. If you have a low vote score, but a decent popularity, then it is a matter of interpretation at that point if the article is good or lousy. I really don't question the overall views of most voters of article around here anyways.
Is there a particular article in question? If they are yours, they seem to have good ratings right now.
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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"Is there a particular article in question?"
Nope. It is not particular complaint. I would like this post had been perceived as a general concern.
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Sergei Arhipenko wrote: it can be misused/abused in some cases
To a small extent. If an article is voted a 5 by a Platinum member, then it takes 8 1-votes from a Bronze member to weight it down to a 3.
Sergei Arhipenko wrote: I suggest that a person who makes "downgrade" vote ("1" or "2") must be asked for leaving his comment/reason of the mark.
Does not necessarily have to. If the article really, really sucks, then there shouldn't be any need to justify a low vote for it.
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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Requiring a comment wouldn't solve anything. You'd just get a lot of comments like "adfjadas"
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(I brought this up during the beta testing, just curious if you've given it any thought since.)
My profile is at http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=152 but I would really like it to be a lot shorter so it's easier to fit on business cards or Moo cards[^] or résumés. http://www.codeproject.com/profile/152 would be great.
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Yes - I'd love to do this.
Added to the TODO
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Added to the TODO
Déjà vu.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Yeah, the new CodeProject has an automatic reply built-in
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But instead of a beguile number like 152 as indicated in the first thread, a friendly name would be still pleasant. Isn't it?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Good idea. Why not just have a link from a different site that points to your member profile?
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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Because I want to put this on my resume and cards:
Author at The Code Project: www.codeproject.com/profile/152
That looks a lot better than:
Author at The Code Project: tinyurl.com/2km6a7
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Michael Dunn wrote: tinyurl.com/2km6a7
I agree that would be rather cheesy. Why don't you have a site like michaeldunn.com, or something like that?
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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You can disguise it with a URL redirection service as a temporary measure: http://www.codeproject.com/profile/152[^]
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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I'm not putting a tinyurl on a business card or resume.
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Yep - see the sticky post at the top. They will be returned safe and sound, hopefully this week
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Feel free to smack me with the n00b stick for not reading the sticky. That's what I get for posting after midnight.
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Regarding to entering the Lounge , I have to specify some specific message topic ID (for example: http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2379178#xx2379178xx[^]). If I just click the main page of the Lounge (AKA: http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx[^]), it gives me the below error message. The failure rate is about 99%. And when it happens, the failure rate becomes absolutely 100%. The only way to get rid of the error is to specify some specific message topic ID (as mentioned above). Otherwise no matter how many refreshes, the error keeps happening and it may last for hours.
-- Unable to load messages due to high load or server error. Please try again --
Maxwell Chen
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Some articles like this one[^], which is not an unedited entry, show a horizontal scroll
bar when reading the body text, no matter what the width of the window is.
The first paragraph renders as any of the following:
"...................As the chapter was"
"split into two sections.............."
"...................As the chapter w" <<<<< BAD
"split into two sections............"
"...................As the chapter"
"was split into two sections......."
"...................As the cha" <<<<< BAD
"was split into two sections.."
depending on window width. It does not apply to all articles.
I am using XP/SP2 and IE6.
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Display Mode Normal
User Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Version 6
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Cookies OK? True
Server Web13
Country Belgium
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I think this has to do with a bug in the code regions that are large enough to create a collapsible region. See this post[^] for more details.
Scott.
—In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
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Hi Scott, yes the behavior for both articles is similar, with one small diff:
the article I refered to allows the lift in the HSCROLL to grow by widening the window,
until it fills the HSCROLL which then disappears; the article you refered to makes the HSCROLL
pop from 80% filled to invisible.
On both the collapse/expand state of the code sections seem not to influence the behavior.
Regards,
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forums with new messages are supposed to be listed in bold, but recently often fail
to do so. My guess is there is an error in the timing logic.
Right now (3:38 PM) the list shows "Forums in bold have new messages since Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:30:00 PM", so after 8 minutes the "new" status is lost?
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It is now 20:28 local time in Belgium (GMT+1).
a message [^] I posted 9 minutes ago in the C# forum does not show the NEW icon, and
(after a reload of course) the forum list shows not a single bold title, although the
footnote says "Forums in bold have new messages since Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:20:00 PM"
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