|
Amit Kumar Tiwari wrote: But this forum is for intellectual and technical people.
No, it's for anyone. Whether they are intellectual, technical or not is irrelevant; and a bit of gentle abuse from time to time helps to stop us getting "too up ourselves", as we non-intellectuals like to say.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
|
|
|
|
|
Richard MacCutchan wrote: as we non-intellectuals like to say.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The problem is not in the question but in Luc's answer. You need to fix the html in Luc's response.
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks but the answer was locked out, Improve Answer wasn't working. I assume because the answer had been accepted. Or perhaps because of the formatting. Someone with higher powers has corrected it though.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
|
|
|
|
|
It seems Luc edited his answer a few minutes ago.
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, I visited the answer (as I was suddenly getting a comment and some rep points on it) and was surprised to see a </span> in the middle of a CODE block, so I removed the SPAN thingy.
In fact, there seem to be a lot of HTML tags I never intended to be there (just like there were in the question, and Mark has been removing there).
|
|
|
|
|
Luc Pattyn wrote: as I was suddenly getting a comment and some rep points on it
Wow, how do you track that at that level?
|
|
|
|
|
With an intricate combination of mind melt with the CP servers, mail notifications, and rep history reporting. Nothing illegal.
|
|
|
|
|
|
For long posts, it seems the site silently truncates the text. Is there an "unofficial" maximum character limit for a post?
Note that old posts with really long content have the same problem, so either some data was lost during a DB update, or maybe you are only selecting the first n characters, where n is the new max limit.
|
|
|
|
|
I suspect that some of the formatting problems that occur are due to the limit removing closing html. I would have expected to see limits in place being indicated up front, so that the truncation does not end up surprising the user.
|
|
|
|
|
What's weirder is it happens to old posts too. So all of a sudden you have posts that have truncated content. I hope it's a bug in the client side fetch/display rather than data loss during their last DB update.
|
|
|
|
|
No, it was a simple mistake in the code that fetches the messages from the database. For some reason we didn't catch it in testing. We'll ease up on the egg-nog.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
Hi,
I am sorry that this is my second question which is deleted by you.... where do i ask if i have a problem that is not regarding programing but it is theoratical.... a problem is a problem, when i asked the disadvantages of google car, people said, we are not here to do your home work.... who knows,that is my home work or i am trying it for myself..... Anyways, i am dissatisfied by whatever i asked....
Is there a way, i mean how do i remove my account from here?? i saw options but couldnt find.... help me plz
|
|
|
|
|
I would like to propose that an answer in Q/A cannot be deleted by anyone but the answerer if the answer is currently voted 3.0 or higher.
.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
|
|
|
|
|
Agreed.
The nerve of some people.
Although, slightly having second thoughts. How about when voted 3 or more by the OP or marked as answer, because sometimes people upvote inappropriate answers if they are humorous, or sarcastic.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
|
|
|
|
|
Henry Minute wrote: How about when voted 3 or more by the OP or marked as answer, because sometimes people upvote inappropriate answers if they are humorous, or sarcastic.
Good suggestion. If the OP up-votes an answer (4 or 5), then unless the answer gets edited, it should not be deletable.
But otherwise, you are right, the highest rated answers are usually ones where someone makes a smart-ass comment and morons vote it up without realizing that they are doing just the opposite of what Chris/Dave envisage this forum to be
John is most likely referring to his recent answer (with the dozens of 5s) that got deleted. And that is basically just what I am talking about here.
|
|
|
|
|
I often edit answers, even after getting a 5 vote, or in the process of trying to help someone.
.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
|
|
|
|
|
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I often edit answers, even after getting a 5 vote, or in the process of trying to help someone.
Yeah and the moment you do that, the post should get un-marked as answer. Since the moment you edit it, there's no guarantee that this is now the same content that the OP marked as answer.
The core problem is that the Q-A section is wiki-style, but people try to use it as a forum. The rep-score system does not treat Q-A responses as it should. Example, A replies, B edits it and improves it, and the post gets ten 5s, all of which give rep score points to A but none to B although it was B's edit that got the 5s in the first place.
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I'm not sure the Q/A system is engineered appropriately, but I don't have any recommendations to make it better, so I haven't said much about it other than what you just said - people are trying to use it like a forum.
What I'm curious about is why the people ask questions in Q/A don't ask in the forums instead....
Maybe the following would be a better idea :
0) Refactor Q/A to support "answer threads". Each answer will have it's own thread by which the op and the answerer can continue to communicate.
1) Remove the ability for other users to delete anything.
2) Allow voting on comments
3) Allow an answer to be *proposed* as "the" answer, and for others to vote that answer as "the" answer.
4) Once an answer has been marked as "the answer" by the questioner, no further answers to that thread can be marked as such, but CAN be proposed as "the" answer.
5) Have the voting system work the same was forums do now, and if an answer or comment is *voted* to be removed, it gets removed.
6) Have answers and comments that have been voted to be removed have a red rectangle outline (or some other obvious indication of it's status).
7) Disallow people from adding "official" tags, but give them the ability to specify "user tags". Filters would then show questions by their "official" tags, and would allow the user to further filter by "user" tags, such as "gimmecode", or "homework".
I think the Q/A section is more visually appealing than the forums, and should be used to replace the forums, but only after Q/A has been re-engineered. Since it can already be filtered by tag(s), this would keep people from seeing questions about stuff they're not knowledgeable in. It would also make the Q&A menu system pretty much obsolete.
.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
|
|
|
|
|
|
I recently got a mobile newsletter from Code Project. I don't remember getting those before. Is this something new from Code Project that I've automatically been subscribed to?
|
|
|
|
|
As it said at the top of the newsletter it's a new newsletter that's essentially a slice of the current newsletter for those interested in mobile dev. We'll send it out a few more times and if you're not interested or don't want it then you won't get it any more.
We know a lot of readers like having all articles in a single weekly digest but we, as users of the site as well, find it easier if we get information in nicely packaged formats. We're starting with mobile since it's our current favourite, and the add others as demand and content dictate.
My goal is to have newsletters on different topics that allow me, in a single sensibly sized read, to catch up on all the news and articles for a single subject.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
I received this as well, and although I'm not doing anything with mobile at the moment I think it's a(nother) great idea from The CodeProject. Keep it up!
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
|
|
|
|