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High-level members should have the ability to add questions and answers to the corresponding FAQ, For example, there could be FAQs for C#, C++, C++/MFC, ASP, etc. These FAQs would essentially be wikis, but you have to achieve a certain level before you can contribute.
FAQs would be a great benefit to the site and to people who come here for answers. By saying "See C# FAQ #38", you would be pointing to an answer that hopefully gets better and more complete as time goes by.
Each forum (and Q&A, of course) would have the notice "Because of your level, you can add to or edit the FAQ for this forum", along with some button, etc.
FAQs should be searchable (using the new Hans Dietrich Search Algorithm, and should be presented as a rolled-up list of questions, for faster scanning.
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This was the original plan for the programming forums about 5 years. The Good answer / bad answer / mark as answer system was put in place so I could etract the top questions and answers. This turned out to be suboptimal and so I started work 2 years ago on the Live FAQ, which would be a question and answer system that would be wiki-like and would focus on matching good answers and good questions. We then renamed it to Quick Answers.
So: why not have a button within a Quick Answer (or Tip n Trick) entry which says "Add this to the FAQ". Only questions and accepted answers would be added to the FAQ, and we could then view the FAQ filtered by whatever tags you wanted, allowing us to easily produce a C++, an MFC, a VBSCript, or whatever FAQ.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: why not have a button within a Quick Answer (or Tip n Trick) entry which says "Add this to the FAQ"
What about regular programming forums?
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Is it possible to do a "is contained in" search instead of the current "is an exact match" search?
Example: searching for "fxdetect" finds nothing. Searching for "xfxdetect" finds the article.
Or maybe make this a checkbox option next to the search box.
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Not in SQL Server. However, we're going to be ditching SQL Server full text and move to something more sensible, after which the answer will be "yes"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That is the best news ever regarding CP. True search is badly needed.
suggestion: cover the site itself also, i.e. the FAQ, and all the pages explaining how things work and are supposed to be used around here.
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Just a thought: Can we use Google search result for that specific term, and then parse them, and show them in proper CP like formatting ?
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Hi,
I find it very problematic to move the mouse and click on each thread to view it.
I am a keyboard friendly user and would like to have something like 'Tab'-'Tab' to work for me, to navigate over the threads on page.
Does code-project already has something such for KB-users in place. If not, WTF!
Ravie Busie
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There is a somewhat cryptic sentence at the bottom of pages with forum, regarding CTRL/ARROW combinations. They work great. Try CTRL/ARROW_DOWN.
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Thanks for informing me 
Ravi S
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You're welcome.
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OK, I'll bite.
How would you suggest we make it non-cryptic?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you for biting.
The first time I ever noticed the CTRL/ARROW sentence, was under an article with no messages attached yet. That made it really cryptic, as there were no messages, and one can hardly see a forum is possible there at all (the "New Message" widget is too subtle a hint).
My suggestions therefore are:
1. add a sentence on top of the article page, stating a forum exists or could be started at the bottom.
2. for articles (and forums), when no messages are present yet, add a sentence at the bottom stating a forum is possible, all it takes is clicking "New Message" (instead of the current CTRL/ARROW sentence)
3. for articles and forums, and only when there are messages (plural!), show the CTRL/ARROW sentence.
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I tried to wrap the code in this question[^] within <pre></pre> tags but it just shows the tags instead of interpreting them.
It's time for a new signature.
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Looks like Sandeep fixed it
My guess is that the checkbox for 'ignore html in text' was checked.
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On C# forum.
a) When i click on page 2, page 2 opens up.
Now if i click on 1st message of 2 page, in response 1 page showed and i have to click 2 page link again to see the message.
This happens only with 1st and 2nd page.
I tried Mozilla, IE8 both showing this.
b)When previously i am using c# forum . and click any message subject it opens up immediately (i.e it simply expand the message)
But now whole page got refreshed and its annoying.
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Possibly this is due to the issue where, if you click on a message before the page has finished loading, the page does a full post-back. We're aware of this and will fix it as soon as possible
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can you add a button in articles that will be for subscription and will send notification mails when author updates his/her article.
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We willm but we need to build an infrastructure that can handle the load. This has been something I've personally wanted to have since we started, but other things kept getting in the way. However, I just moved this project into the short term goals so I'm hoping soon.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Are you planning on adding a separate button, or will you just send email to everyone who has bookmarked an article?
I think it would be ok to consider bookmarking == subscribe.
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I agree - at least for bookmarks existing at the moment when the feature becomes operational.
If there are seperate subscrbe / unsubscribe, bookmark / kill bookmark functions, then the two lists can diverge from then on.
Hope that was clear. I 99% agree with you!
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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We'll bring back the "Watch" button.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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And maybe a "Watch All Bookmarked" button?
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The search function doesn't work at all.
Can't really sum up what goes wrong since no matter what I try I never get any results.
Chrome 5
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