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With CP 2.0, we got the ability to change our votes. That's great. Really great. My sloppy mousing need no longer be a source of pain and frustration, at least not here.
But, there seem to be a fair number of people who do not yet realize that this is possible. I have a theory: since the voting form goes away when you submit your vote, it feels like a not-so-subtle hint that the action is irreversible. Granted, if you re-load the page then the form is back... but that requires to you reload and look for it.
Perhaps it would help if the form just didn't go away? Surely there's no technical reason why submitting votes needs to overwrite the form itself with the status...
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Shog9 wrote: Surely there's no technical reason why submitting votes needs to overwrite the form itself with the status...
It's merely aethetics.
I wonder how many people actually need to revote without a page refresh (eg an article update, a change of heart) in between?
Will add it to the TODO though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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What exactly does the Good/Bad Question buttons? Also, would it be possible to shrink them a little? They look kinda bloated...
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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They've been here for a little while now. I think it's to give others a sense of thumbs up/thumbs down rather than the 1 - 5. I know a few people mentioned in the beginning that they accidentally hit the wrong button.
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That's probably a better approach than 1-5 voting. I also saw that there's a similar button setup for answers.
While I have your attention.. could you tell me what the fuzz is about? Send me a private message if you like. I've been away in the misty land of preparing-for-a-release for some time now, so I'm a little confused...
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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If you go to my blog I have an email address there. (The email button in CP seems to not be working 100%). Some of it is there; I'll send a detailed explanation over the weekend.
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leckey wrote: they accidentally hit the wrong button
They anyway have the privilege of re-voting option also. 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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Not sure on that; I've never tried.
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The classic CodeProject had a voting system that you can cast your opinion only once but can not change it then. But after the newer (.NET) version was launched, this behavior has changed. The new opinion (vote) would take preference of the former one.
Also, as a matter of coincidence, when I am composing this note, there is another suggestion at the top of the forum by Shog who has suggested having the revoting capability more obvious. Here is the permalink of that thread:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=1645&msg=2557222[^]
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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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: What exactly does the Good/Bad Question buttons
Replaces "1" and "5". I'm not interested in whether a question is a "3". I want to be able to highlight the good and the bad. I'll be adding more features very soon.
They are bigger than normal to highlight them (for the moment)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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This article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/ConceptualChildren.aspx[^] seems to have 29 votes, all 5. When I hold mouse cursor on 5th bar of the small barchart it says 9 votes 100.0% yet the article total score is: 4.78. Two problems:
1- If 100% of votes are 5, then why it's 9 out of 29.
2- If all voters gave 5, then why total score is not 5?
I'm not sure the second to be a bug, but it's likely to be.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive) { cout<<"I love to do more than just programming."; }
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It's recent data only (see the tooltip when you hover over). We only started storing individual votes last December after we reworked our infrastructure
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks for quick reply.
I've noticed that already, I just thought the article is new.
Sorry for disturbing.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive) { cout<<"I love to do more than just programming."; }
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I was just wondering if it'd be possible to change the icon for the <pre> snippet in the message editor to something like code block.
I'm only thinking of this because of the number of people who've posted blocks of code in the forums using the <code> tabs which makes it hard to read and I'm thinking perhaps it's because they don't know what pre means?
Thoughts?
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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I second all suggestions helping people in publishing code with optimal readability.
Without PRE tags, most code is hard to read, VB.NET code especially so.
The buttons below the message text box already have tooltips, with a short text,
but it is probably too short to be really helpful.
Maybe a help button could be added, giving a top-down guide on how to include
single-line and multi-line code snippets.
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The problem with introducing help / tooltips is that new users aren't going to read them. If we just change the text to "code block" then it shouldn't require too much effort for them. Perhaps make the "code" button slightly more hidden so that they use the pre block in preference to the code block.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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I see your point.
So maybe replace the button labels: "pre" by "multi-line code snippet"
and "code" by "single-line code snippet"
and keep the HTML PRE and CODE tags mentioned in the tooltip.
The alternative is to have a smarter editor: offering only one button to the user,
and letting it decide for itself which tag to use...
I bet that is not what Chris has in stock right now.
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I've made a small change I'll upload this weekend that should make things a little clearer
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Wow! That was fast, or are you keeping a stock of changes in your back pocket so that when people request them you can seem unusally fast on the uptake
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Nice change. Nice and obvious.
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Several suggestions about bookmarking articles:
1. When someone bookmarks an article, the author of article gets notified. The notification may also include name of the member who bookmarked the article.
2. When an article gets updated notify anyone who has bookmarked it. It would be also nice if it were possible to subscribe for other articles update.
3. In the statistics of an article show how many people have the article in their bookmarks.
What do you think?
Giorgi Dalakishvili
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