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Russ Freeman wrote:
Editing only gives some minor corrections to spelling and such
No - editing ensures that articles are of sufficient quality, that they are sufficiently different to those already posted, are categorized properly, are of the standard format, have the spelling and grammar corrected and that all the links, zips, images are OK.
What you don't see are the number of articles I reject, or the difference between the submitted version and the posted version for authors who have English as their second language or simply aren't good with HTML. It may seem a small thing to have the articles all readable, all formatted the same way, have the links work and not have spelling and grammar mistakes but when you add it all up over 2,600 articles it makes a very big, but often subtle difference.
The problem is I don't scale very well but I'm working on it. Please be patient as I setup systems to allow the other editors to take more of the immeditate workload off me.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Russ Freeman wrote:
The look and feel of my articles fits as near to perfectly with CP as is possible.
That is your problem, man. You make it too easy. Have you noticed that some strange looking (ugly) articles never get edited? You need to make sure your font/color/style is as different from the CP standard as possible, then no editor would want to touch yours.
Seriously, updating an article through one of editors doesn't really take that long, especially after superman Nish started helping.
Of course, it is better to have radio buttons to provide the following choices when submitting an article:
1. I know my article looks good and is of high quality, don't you dare to edit it.
2. I know my article looks ugly but that's the way I want, don't you dare to eidt it.
3. Help me correct spelling, grammar, and fix all the bugs in code, please.
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anonymous wrote:
Have you noticed that some strange looking (ugly) articles never get edited?
anonymous wrote:
2. I know my article looks ugly but that's the way I want, don't you dare to eidt it.
I'm sorry, but i read far more articles than i update, and this seems terribly petty and arrogant to me. From what i've seen, the *really* ugly articles that don't get edited tend to be the ones that are so completely worthless, often because of the formatting, that no-one even reads them. Why you'd want this for your article is beyond me.
If you really think there are problems with CP's formatting, i'd think you'd be better off bringing them up in this forum; your lone article, crying out in the wilderness, isn't going to make that much of a difference in the end. Even someone posting as many articles as Nish didn't get the color scheme changed to gray .
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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"... this seems terribly petty and arrogant to me ..."
I guess you don't find my post funny. That's ok, you never know what will piss someone off these days. There could be somebody out there who, for example, finds it extremely ugly and tasteless to have a superscript in one's user id. But who cares
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Anonymous wrote:
I guess you don't find my post funny.
You make light of a serious issue.
Anonymous wrote:
There could be somebody out there who, for example, finds it extremely ugly and tasteless to have a superscript in one's user id.
It wouldn't suprise me. User id's can be very anoying some times... personally, i find ones with a gray, un-clickable head next to them annoying.
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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If you think grey, unclickable heads are bad, just wait until you go bald.
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
-Karla Kuban
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How on earth did you find this thread??
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Beats me, I was searching the archives for help on CSS for articles.
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
-Karla Kuban
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Previously, if one article references another article and the referenced article got moved by the editor, when you click the out-dated link, CP will find and display the correct link.
Unfortunately, the feature is gone now. CP will only tell you "Page not found".
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It's still there. Sometimes though it simply can't find the article, or if an article has been removed then it work work either.
any particular article you were looking for? I'll double check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Yes, it works now after you changed the title back to "Executing commands on a remote machine". The article was referenced in another article of mine, somehow the feature doesn't work if the title is changed.
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Actually there was a typo in the script which I fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Can anyone tell me where I can find the font, which is used in the "THE CODE PROJECT" logo in the top of the site down the banner.
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I really like the "New" notification that appears next to new posts, but I think it could be cool to incorporate some client side logic into it. It would be really handy if the "New" went away after a user have clicks on a post. That way it will be easier to see which posts are actually new to the user. Currently it gets really hard to keep track of what you have read, and what you haven't in one of the massive threads that grows very quickly (When there are like 25 different "new" posts).
Actually, after thinking about how to implement that feature, it is probably way more work than it is worth. I'm still going to post this, because it is the only thing about these awesome forums that I think could really help make them better.
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Ryan Johnston wrote:
but I think it could be cool to incorporate some client side logic into it
*That* would be fun, not. LOL, I can just imagine the cookie handling code that would manage to do that and how big the cookies would get after awhile (you would have to keep track of every single post read, and I read a lot of posts everyday.) Not too mention the client-side load that would put on the client (scripting languages in general are not very performance orientated.)
Of course you could do it on the server-side, but then that means some new tables in the CP database and blam, there goes all the extra scalability Chris has eeked out of the code already.
I think most of us would prefer to keep the forums as they are if that means the performance stays as it is. While this feature you mention is cool, it would throw performance out the window and we would all start moaning
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
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Paul Watson wrote:
I can just imagine the cookie handling code that would manage to do that and how big the cookies would get after awhile (you would have to keep track of every single post read, and I read a lot of posts everyday.)
It would be kind of nasty, but keep in mind that you would only have to keep track of the posts that have been read up until the time they would have naturally fallen off the "new" classification (Perhaps expiring cookies would work for this). That is probably less than 200 posts (probably only gets that high durring a flame war) at any given time.
What do you think?
Ryan Johnston
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Ryan Johnston wrote:
What do you think?
That is a good point actually. If anyone is up to finding out what manipulating 200 cookies is like, be my guest
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
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Crap, I thought "suggestions" was a way of making other people do work for me.
Ryan Johnston
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Birthdays are available
But i like the age idea
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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It's well hidden. Even among the people who know it exists seldom remember how to get to it. Use this knowledge wisely...
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Shog9
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
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Shog9 wrote:
It's well hidden. Even among the people who know it exists seldom remember how to get to it. Use this knowledge wisely...
Sounds like "...beware of the darkside...." should be coming out of your mouth right after this statement.
Nick Parker
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