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It seems Paul and I share very similar views here; I just posted this in the Lounge (and then realised I was in the wrong forum ):
I know much has been said about the Article Rating system and I don't really want to restart the debate about whether it's a good idea or not. However, I do have one suggestion.
Recent changes such as 'Purgatory' encourage community members to give low ratings for 'bad' articles, but, as is the case with this article[^] it improved after feedback. However, having voted already I am now unable to amend my vote to aid in it's recovery.
I don't think being able to vote multiple times is a good idea, for obvious reasons, but it would be nive if I could amend my vote at a later date if improvements have been made.
Derek Lakin.
The great thing about being a slayer: is kicking ass is comfort food. Buffy
Salamander Software Ltd.
blog: Digital Thoughts
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I will third this motion.
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Since the article has changed, the vote count could be reset to zero. Unfortunately this opens up the possibilty of people updating an article just to get the rating reset to zero. None the less, I think it is an editorial decision to make when an article is updated that the article's rating should be reset.
Chris Meech
We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton
VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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Einstein says...
hahahhaa
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.... Dire Straits
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I have not got any spam since i changed my domain name from .nu to .se since june last year. I have been very restricted to add myself to new sites so i'm quite sure when the spam appears.
It was when i registered here. Does there is any side here that can be public showing everyones email?
Regards
/Pelle
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Anonymous wrote:
It was when i registered here. Does there is any side here that can be public showing everyones email?
Email addresses are never displayed in web-pages at CodeProject, so it is unlikely that the address has been farmed by a spam-bot.
CP have never in their history sent unsolicited mail and I don't believe they will have started now.
The only unsecure part of CP is when you reply to a post. Your email address is shown in the reply notification that gets sent.
Michael
But you know when the truth is told,
That you can get what you want or you can just get old,
Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through.
When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
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Anonymous wrote:
It was when i registered here. Does there is any side here that can be public showing everyones email?
Strange. I've been signed up on CP for over a year, and I'm yet to get any spam at all on this address. Most of us would beat Chris (the webmaster) with a rubber hose had he sold our addresses to spammers
Ian Darling
"The different versions of the UN*X brand operating system are numbered in a logical sequence: 5, 6, 7, 2, 2.9, 3, 4.0, III, 4.1, V, 4.2, V.2, and 4.3" - Alan Filipski
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We take great care to ensure your email address is secure. We hate unsolicited, untargeted and unpleasant emails as much as the next guy.
...and there is Ian's rubber hose to think about as well.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I don't think so either and it must have been a coincidence, but it is strange - don't you agree?. Myself is running a big community in Sweden and have also created a numerous number of sites so i know we try our hardest not to make that kind of misstakes - i'd just have to ask.
I don't blame anyone, i was just curius to to hear if, just if there was by any chanse the source was from here.
Regards
/Pelle
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Chris - exactly how do the noise levels work? I've seen posts that are "grey" in "Very Low" go back to blue at "Very High". Methinks I am
Ian Darling
"The different versions of the UN*X brand operating system are numbered in a logical sequence: 5, 6, 7, 2, 2.9, 3, 4.0, III, 4.1, V, 4.2, V.2, and 4.3" - Alan Filipski
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Ta!
It makes some sense now, rather than none
Ian Darling
"The different versions of the UN*X brand operating system are numbered in a logical sequence: 5, 6, 7, 2, 2.9, 3, 4.0, III, 4.1, V, 4.2, V.2, and 4.3" - Alan Filipski
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Can the times on forums posts reflect local time somehow, instead of Bob Central Time?
Ian Darling
"The different versions of the UN*X brand operating system are numbered in a logical sequence: 5, 6, 7, 2, 2.9, 3, 4.0, III, 4.1, V, 4.2, V.2, and 4.3" - Alan Filipski
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What do you hate most about office politics?
1. Boss taking all the credit for things you have done.
2. Coworker stabbing you in the back.
3. You were blamed for the problem which was someone else's fault.
4. People depended on you to practically do their work for them, and yet they got equal or better performance reviews than you did.
5. You were blamed for not following the "process" when you went ahead and solved an old problem that nobody wanted to touch.
6. Other.
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I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.
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What ru suggesting by laughing like this??
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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7. All of the above!
Grrrtz, Guus
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I haven't been on for a long time, but coming back I find that threaded view is mostly unusable. It times out everytime on 50 articles, about 75% of the time with 25, and about 50% of the time with 10.
Any way to improve the performance of threaded view?
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Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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I use Dynamic just about all the time. It is probably just as slow, though. I could be wrong but I think Code Project will be going through a major hardware upgrade in addition to a network bandwidth increase sometime in the New Year. Welcome back, Eric.
Chris Meech
We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton
VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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Hmm.. haven't tried dynamic, but "Normal" view is blazing fast, as such it would appear that the problem is in the queries necessary to generate the threaded (or dynamic) views over normal.
While i'm sure Codeprojects popularity has put even more strain on the servers (Hmm.. i can remember several such upgrades in the past), I don't think throwing more hardware at it is always the best solution. Maybe the queries can be optimized a little more.
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Actually, I just switched to dynamic, and it's pretty quick for me, even at 50 articles. Threaded is still timing out all over the place.
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Ok.. i'm a liar... Threaded has suddenly started working better. It's still slower than Dynamic for some reason, but it's not timing out anymore...
Chris must be playing a joke...
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Dear CPians,
I have been using CP for a year, more or less, and I have found alot of help on this amazing developers community. I believe that the reason that this community is working well is the fact that there are some outstanding programmers that devote many hours of their day to post good quality articles and answer to questions on the message boards. This makes bad authors and bad behaviour on message boards a big problem...
I have noticed, as most of you have, that some people are posting bad quality articles. Not to mention that many of them are dividing their regular size article into many "PARTS" in order to have more articles posted on here, and thats how we end up with PARTS OF ARTICLES that in some cases wont make a 800x600 resolution screen to scroll.
I understand that if the article posting forms are removed some qood authors will not be able to post their quality articles. Not to metnion that Chris and all the rest of the quys will have to go through every single article and manually post them (which is a huge problem).
So what I suggest?
Each member could have a limit of how many articles he/she can post. Lets say 1 to start with.
Then, the member should earn the right to post more articles by some or all of the following aspects:
1) good behaviour on message boards.
2) numbers of message posting.
3) article rating.
...and if you could come up with anything else...
I would like to believe that this will make people to write better articles and improve their behaviour on the message boards.
Regards.
theJazzyBrain
Excelence is not an act, but a habbit Aristotle
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