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Chris Maunder wrote: If we want to guilt people into coming and visiting us more often because we may be feeling unloved.
I have a thought - maybe we should have a New Member of the Year award for the user that gains the most points (that exceed a specified minimum) over the year. This user would get additional points (like MVPs do, but maybe not as many - say 500 points), as well as his/her choice from a selected group software and/or hardware (like monthly contest winners get, only maybe a little more substantial).
Chris Maunder wrote: if you post 100 messages (or whatever) then you get a chunk of participation points for that year.
How about just giving a 50-point bonus for every 1000 points of overall reputation gained for that year.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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So how is a members overall status going to be determined?
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I think overall status level would be just the average of all things (participant, author, authority, editor, etc.,). Just like the graph shows overall reputation.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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If that were to happen, I'd be demoted to Silver. I have (way beyond) platinum status in three of the categories, and bronze in the others. That doesn't seem fair...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I don't think the overall reputation should be calculated only by the article count. There are many ways to contribute to the site, and I'm glad they're recognising it now. I'm not sure if you'll be demoted (that may depend on how much you've scored with your contributions, whatever they may be). Perhaps, someone from CP could answer this.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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For the MVP insidivists like yourself, the category of #Kryptonite# should be added.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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It seems to me that the style sheets need some work. It seems that it's inserting excessive vertical whitespace before and after major elements (like headers and pre blocks) and it's almost impossible to format your content when the preview shows as it does.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I second that. Forums and (old) articles have a good spatial density, they don't waste screen real estate. The new stuff (QA and TT) is wasting a lot of space. Using them requires a lot of clicking, scrolling and page loading.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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Inserting space before and after PRE tags has been an issue since the year dot. It's not a stylesheet issue (actually, it is easily solvable using CSS, if only everyone would stop using IE6/7), it's a post-processing issue that we know about and are working to fix.
The Preview thing is an odd, odd case. We're on that too.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Looks like my article is still experiencing phantom locks:
Article is locked for editing by Smitha Vijayan. Lock expires in 3 minutes.
*a couple minutes go by and I refresh the page*
Article is locked for editing by Smitha Vijayan. Lock expires in 1 minutes.
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Hi aspdotnetdev,
It seems to be an error. I have not worked on your article recently. I will email the webmaster about it.
Cheers
Smitha
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Hi Smitha,
Just to let you know this has also been happening with my latest article[^] since you edited it.
Nick
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Be excellent to each other
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for notifying me. I've notified the admins about the problem.
Cheers
Smitha
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The issue has been found and fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Choosing 'Latest Articles' from the 'Articles' menu loads Tips/Tricks with the Tip Tricks check box selected (as default). This should be 'Article' instead.
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There are 3 checkboxes on that page that allow you to filter out the article types you do (and don't) want to see.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think what's confusing is the inconsistency. There's a menuitem just for tips (it defaults to the other checkboxes being unticked), but there's no such menuitem for blogs.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: what's confusing is the inconsistency
Exactly..
The thing is when I load the Articles -> Latest Articles section, the Tips / Tricks check box is checked.
Can it not be that the articles check box is checked when a user chooses to view Latest Articles (via menu dropdown) and the tips check box checked when the user chooses to view Latest Tips/Tricks (via menu dropdown)?
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...
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I just looked at this again as I have all three boxes ticked. However, if I now select "Latest Tips/Tricks" from the menu the the system filters out the Articles and Blogs by setting their checkboxes unticked; as is correct. If I then select "Latest Articles" again it still leaves the Articles and Blogs checkboxes unticked so still only shows me the Tips & Tricks.
MVP 2010 - are they mad?
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Yep that's a bug. Thanks for the report.
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All the forums (Lounge, Site Bugs, Quick Answers, ...) were just down. I wonder if an inefficient paging algorithm and my viewing the first ever message posted on the Lounge caused it. Just a heads up. If that did cause it, you are about to have more fun (I posted, to the Lounge, a link to the first message posted in the Lounge).
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aspdotnetdev wrote: viewing the first ever message posted on the Lounge caused it.
I just accessed that link and nothing happened.
Pity.
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...
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Took a while to load the page, though, didn't it?
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aspdotnetdev wrote: Took a while to load the page, though, didn't it?
It took longer than other posts on the lounge, but not toooooo long.
I wonder how the whole thing works....
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...
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