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Is it possible to make the coockie based system also know when you last visited a specific forum and show how many new posts since you last visited it. The current since last date/time does not work so well as its applied to all forums. After visiting one you can't really tell if there have been any new posts in a different forum which you havn't looked at. 
Currently, I try and remember the number of posts in each given forum and can approximately see whether there have been any new posts. 
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
I have a terminal disease. Its called life!
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How much CodeProject effect on your programming skills?
a)A Lot.Its the most effective one.
b)Very much,but not the first one.
c)So so.
d)A little
e)Nothing
My choice is A.
Why do you come to CodeProject mostly?
a)Community
b)Asking questions.
c)Answering others questions.
d)Find useful articles.
e)All of above.
f)Submit articles.
My choice is B.
Mazy
"If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I’m alive and well, will you be
There holding my hand
I’ll keep you by my side with
My superhuman might
Kryptonite"Kryptonite-3 Doors Down
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Is it true that authors can obtain the names of the people who rated their articles? Stephane Rodriguez said so in an answer to a post. If so, I can think of all sorts of uses for this knowledge. For those who rate articles 2 or 3, a DoS or spam attack may be appropriate. A 1 rating could earn a visit from the DC sniper, or at least a retaliatory 1 rating on all of their articles.
All kidding aside, authors should not be able to obtain this information. I believe secret rating is honest rating.
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No. Members cannot get the names of the people who have voted for their articles. However, I do record this information so I can check up on voter abuse and ensure that you can only vote for an article once.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I have to disagree. I see the member ID.
How low can you go ?
(MS rant)
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You see your member ID after you vote - just as a reminder that I am recording votes.
If you can find a way that shows how to determine who has voted on an article then I'd be interested to see. Not even my admin scripts currently allow me to do this 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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In my article [^]posted some days ago, I happen to have answered immediately after someone posted a comment. And I saw the red message "...member 231 voted" on top of the rate bar (constructed with the ?st=... in the query string). Looks like this message only lived a few minutes (session timeout probably).
As soon as I saw it, I responded the guy with a different point of view, of course...
This is a nice feature. Just would be great if I could get the whole list, and no timeout on that. (which is equivalent to gain read access to one of your DB tables).
How low can you go ?
(MS rant)
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Ed Gadziemski wrote:
All kidding aside, authors should not be able to obtain this information. I believe secret rating is honest rating.
I can agree with that logic...but still...i'm gonna rate someones article the way I want...if I think it could use an improvment...i'll grade it low and say why...
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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An answer has been posted to your message ...
A new reply has been added to your article ...
Thats a new "feature" that the article author gets the same message twice only because he wrote a reply to a message to one of his articles AND he is the author.
So, the first mail is because of the answer to a message and the second (equal) mail is because its related to the article.
Is that really necessary? Configurable? Removable?
I keep submitting “VB” as a Priority-1 bug, but apparently no one here knows how to fix it. Nick Hodapp, Semicolon
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First you want something that works and now you want something that works sensibly? Sheesh! 
(added to the TODO)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I really wouldnt want to change your TODO list with mine. You would finally have time to go through all your 9000+ mails 
And, no, it doesnt need to work sensibly. Just the way I like it to work is fine. 
I keep submitting “VB” as a Priority-1 bug, but apparently no one here knows how to fix it. Nick Hodapp, Semicolon
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ugh. Thanks.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Sounds a bit counter productive, and also I wouldn't be allowed in.
What about stupid and intelligent lounges?
I could use the stupid one.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
I have a terminal disease. Its called life!
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Because I am not a Very Important Programmer!
Actually I was acting up as usuall.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
I have a terminal disease. Its called life!
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VIP = Very Important Parakeet?
Why would we need a lounge just for parakeets?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Uwe Keim wrote:
Since we have a 'Lounge', we also should have a 'VIP Lounge'.
Uwe Keim wrote:
Don't know the criterias for that, but maye it helps to lower the noise in the Lounge
I reckon we need a "elevate thread to Lounge" system. Threads start off in the Foyer (or whatever) and in there it is just whatever goes that doesn't belong in the Soapbox. Then if enough people vote for a certain thread it gets elevated to the Lounge.
To many good threads in the Lounge are being pushed out of view by trivial or once-off-no-need-to-discuss-move-along-folks-click-the-link-and-gratify-yourself posts.
But lets not get too serious and pompous like Kur05hin or /.
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Hey, I like your "roomed" approach, even if this wasn't what you meant...
(Don't ask me how this could be done, this is just the idea)
We could have a virtual house containing a set of rooms all leading off from the main door: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, library, etc. Each room would be for specific content (e.g. the kitchen would be for announcements, the bathroom for dirty jokes, the bedroom for off topic, etc), and could have individual topical areas within it (e.g. the library could have different sections for Visual C++, VB, Java, and what have you). But here's the good part - the house would be a huge virtual reality environment. Members would log in, adorn themselves with headsets and then open the front door to wlak into the house. Each person would have a customised avatar that could be personalised with their face, clothing, etc and even adopt a regionalised accent.
So if John wanted to let out some grief he's been having getting Windows to work, he can go upstairs into the bedroom and start bitching away - if anyone wants to join in they can walk up to him and start chatting. People can come and go as they please - just like a real life conversation. If things get heated between members think how cool it would be to have a virtual pillow fight or to sneak downstairs and steal a breadknife from the kitchen...
There would need to be some limits to freedom though - we wouldn't want virtual rape or anything like that, but you could still have a sense of interpersonality without it.
Who knows, maybe this is how CodeProject will look in five years time!
An orgy in Tiverton... ({) `/\^^/\:p (Z) :$/\^^/\` (})
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Please CP admins post how often visitors come back to this site. With such cookies of yours (LastVisit), you should do something. That would bring amusing results...
(And of course, since you cook the user email as well, you know exactly who connects and when).
How low can you go ?
(enculage MS)
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I'm not completely sure of the stats myself but about 350,000+ people pass through the site every week.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Thanks Bro. That's an interesting figure but I am interested on the insiders stuff :
(cookies stats)
- how many UNIQUE visitors do we have each week out of these 350000 ?
- what is the time gap between two visits ?
(IIS stats)
- how long is their session ?
- in ratio, how many of them just browse the lounge ?
- in ratio, how many of them browse the programming forums ?
- in ratio, how many read only the latest posts ?
- in ratio, how many start reading CP articles after an answer in a forum (clickety) ?
We know about those who post, but we don't know about those who read. You know, as current CP bottleneck is searchability, I am willing to know what we could do to improve it.
I am sure we have interesting figures here.;)
How low can you go ?
(MS rant)
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Eh now.. come on... I don't know all that stuff... 
You'll have to wait for Chris or Dave to answer.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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