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they'll find out themselves, if they deserve it 
~RaGE();
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David Stone wrote:
And if you are voting, then 5 is good, 1 is bad.
good to know!
PS: I bet in 5 minutes my lacky brain has forgotten it 
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We all know that the programming forums are terrific places to post questions, and the questions certainly represent the entire spectrum from overly simplistic to the farthest-out rocket science.
As I go paging through the forums that I have some possibility of being able to contribute to, sometimes after pages and pages there will be a question left that never got any responses. I certainly understand that there are some questions that no one has any relevant information about, and others have written about the myriad reasons that some questions don't get addressed. That is all fine.
But ...
Sometimes there are reasonable questions that can be answered by the very knowledgeable people visiting and participating in CP. The questions just get lost because they end up so far down page after page that they end up never being seen by the people who might be able to do something about them. With the increasing number of questions that get posted in the more popular forums, it is easy for some questions to drift down the stream while all the newer questions are the ones that are seen.
So, as a suggestion, or an idea, without any thought as to how to do this or how hard it would be, is there some way that there could be a list (for each forum?) of the 10 most recent questions that do not yet have any responses? This would keep those unfortunate questions that are simple enough to get answered from drifting away into oblivion, and would reduce, if not eliminate, the posts that say "I posted this a few days ago but got no response, so I'm posting again."
Unfortunately, one of my pet peeves is about the responses to questions like "Does anyone know who to do ..." and the response is "No, I've never done that." If you have never done that, and the question asks how to do it, then there is absolutely no reason to write back and tell them that you have never done that. Arrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!!!
Anyway, thanks.
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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For one I like the idea.
I'm sick and tired of visiting forums to find all the questions answered.
David Chamberlain wrote:
Unfortunately, one of my pet peeves is about the responses to questions like "Does anyone know who to do ..." and the response is "No, I've never done that." If you have never done that, and the question asks how to do it, then there is absolutely no reason to write back and tell them that you have never done that.
Yes, that sucks !
I've never done that.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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David Chamberlain wrote:
is there some way that there could be a list (for each forum?) of the 10 most recent questions that do not yet have any responses?
The other option is to have a filter to only show threads which only have one message (i.e. no replies).
Regards,
Victor
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Check this post[^]  ans tell me what you think about it ...
~RaGE();
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I checked this post and followed some of the previous and following posts. I think it is a good idea to have the requester be able to indicate whether or not the question has been adequately answered, but I think there is one flaw in the process. The flaw is that the requester must go back and indicate that the question has been answered. If he fails to do this, then even answered questions will still be viewed by others as not having been answered. As we read through those, we all will get frustrated, the system will be broken, and no one will use it.
If, as I suggested, we can see posts that have no response, then there is a 100% probability that the question has not been answered. Unfortunately, the flaw here is that even if a response is made, the question may still not be answered. As I indicated, those people who post responses that say "I do not know" need to learn some serious multi-user bulletin-board request/response etiquette.
Interesting problem, though, with no clear easy solution.
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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Currently when somebody replies to your posting and you have the email notifications on, you get an email with the reply and with a link which contains the message. In this email notification the email address of the person who posted the message is exposed. I would assume that it should be kept private!
Regards,
Victor
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Suggestion for the link / link[^] tool:
After converting the selection to a link, make the "inner part" selected - so we can just start typing "Clickety". Like this:
If I could find a souvenir / just to prove the world was here [sighist]
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I saw lot of CPians suggested their suggestions.
I wonder anybody keep track of them? 
or
Are they just ignored? 
or
Is any surprise  element included?
Is there a list which we can see? (Ex: Feasible/Not Feasible, Coming Soon....)
Kant
Sonork-100.28114
Don't ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and Drive.
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Chris does keep a list, but it's a long list and he's a very busy man. He also likes to suprise us with new functionality and also not make promises he won't be able to keep to.
Michael
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round -- Queen
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Every suggestion made here or emailed to me is considered. Those that I think will benifit CodeProject are scored according to certain criteria (value to members, cost to implement etc) and are then given a ranking. There are currently 131 items on the list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I think Chris posted a trick answer Nish
First he said yes or aye
and then
Chris Maunder wrote:
There are currently 131 items on the list.
So he said Aye Queue 131 or IQ 131 which isn't bad for a math guy. 
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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I've noticed a trend for CPians to be wishing to have local meetings, ( beers with other Geeks ).
As a suggestion could a facility be set up on CP as to where && when each meeting will be.
That way a CPian can initiate a meeting and it won't add to the clutter of the Lounge and need repeating every 12 hrs.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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I'll second this suggestion - it sounds like a good idea.
How about a "Meetings" page, with upcoming events displayed on the front page?
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Shog9 wrote:
with upcoming events displayed on the front page?
That sounds like a good idea.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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I will leave it to the Site Builders to decide how it should be done. But I think it is a good idea.
Regards,
Victor.
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I've seen lots of other sites have calendar pages that let people add events on to them (guess you just need a messageboard per day, which automatically get purged after the date has passed)
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Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Some people are just hunting for new forums to increase their post count 
Kannan
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Less a question then a fact. CP has normaly no border around the pages but the message bord pages have a 3px white border (I didnt notice this until recently). Looks ugly. (and yes, I am using IE6 - not a 'unsupported' html-visualizer-thingy)
I don't think this is a serious possesion, and the evil most likely comes from your hand. Colin J Davies, The Lounge
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Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing
C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN!
UIN: 50302279
E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu
Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
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I've seen a few threads as of late complaining about the quality of newer articles. I'll agree that, by numbers alone, there are a lot more stinkers around than there used to be. I think that this means it is time to get rid of the '10 latest articles' section and replace it with a '10 latest good articles' section. The signal-to-noise ratio has gotten such that this is simply a necessity.
This will require that a new group of CP volunteers will have to be created for the sole purpose of reviewing articles and deciding which ones get front page billing. We already have volunteer editors and site maintainers, and I am confident that some of the high calibre, well-known CP members can do an excellent job with this.
When an article was positioned for possible review (ie it is added or updated significantly), the reveiwing team would look it over, rate it internally, and decide whether or not to give it front billing. In addition, the reviewers would comment on why something was good or bad, which would make the ratings actually useful.
I like this system much more than the current '10 latest articles' system because some filtering is performed, and I like it better than the 'Top 3 rated articles' because it will be more than 3 articles, and the ratings will come from a panel of known and well respected CP members (instead of random anonymouse twerps).
What are your thoughts?
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Russell Morris
"Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
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