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If these unfortunates would ignore negative feedback rather than seek to learn from it then that's their problem.
Len Holgate
www.jetbyte.com
The right code, right now.
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Len Holgate wrote:
If these unfortunates would ignore negative feedback rather than seek to learn from it then that's their problem.
Imagine this situation. You submit an article. 2 minutes later [yes, 2 minutes] you find someone has given 5 ones  Cool feeling, huh?
It's not feedback or anything! It's pure hatred pouring out!!!
It's not a good feeling, Len!
Nish
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Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
Imagine this situation. You submit an article. 2 minutes later [yes, 2 minutes] you find someone has given 5 ones Cool feeling, huh?
It's not feedback or anything! It's pure hatred pouring out!!!
Even so, ignoring it isn't going to achieve anything. Working out why these people feel this way and attempting to address whatever real or imagined problem they have may achieve something. And, of course, you can't know for sure that it isn't feedback on the content of the article unless you ask them why they voted in that way and what you could do to improve the article.
So, I stand by my original suggestion that making it easy for authors to view this information is useful, even if the author would rather the figures told a different story. Or, perhaps there should be an option we can set in our settings to say how much higher than reality we'd like the scores on our articles to be when we look at them 
Len Holgate
www.jetbyte.com
The right code, right now.
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Read tomorrow's newsletter to find out about the changes I've made to ratings. It's now a lot harder for naysayers to unbalance an article's score.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
VC++ - the language that doesn't say 'no'
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Read tomorrow's newsletter to find out about the changes I've made to ratings. It's now a lot harder for naysayers to unbalance an article's score.
Guy sure loves to create suspense. I think he should write a mystery novel
Nish
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Len Holgate wrote:
if the list of article by section gave the number of views as well as the score and even more handy (for authors) if the "my articles" list gave the view count, score and number of votes.
Added to the TODO list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
VC++ - the language that doesn't say 'no'
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well if u're as sick as i'm, using the proposed rating scheem. You can view your own article and increase it's rating.
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Pickung up a suggestion in the lounge:
What about a list of "My favorite articles" for everyone to see?
It could be similar to the bookmarks technically, but I would keep them separate - bookmarks for tech issues, come and go, and "favorites" (or recommendations to avoid confusion) for what we want to tell every fellow CPian we think is ingenious.
Would also make an interesting way of walking through articles - I could almost forget about tghe "random walk"
The earth is not dying. It is being killed.
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Having a bookmark section and a favourites would be doubling up. I think a better option is to allow readers to view each other's bookmarks and have the option of hiding some or all of your bookmarks from others.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
and have the option of hiding some or all of your bookmarks from others
Yes, sounds good
The earth is not dying. It is being killed.
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That works for me, just add another bit flag in the database, a little more code, and call it a day. 
Oh wait that is just me mimicking an end user. LOL
Nick Parker
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Is there any way to see how many times an article got viewd 
Gevik Babakhani
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If you are using a database, even an Access DB, try embedding and ASP Script (providing the article is HTML format) that connects to your database and updates an number field each time the article gets loaded into a browser for viewing.
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Gevik Babakhani wrote:
Is there any way to see how many times an article got viewd
All CP articles show the view count!
Nish
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Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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As Nish has said, all articles already show the view count. Look at the top of the sidebar under 'Toolbox' and you'll see the count in bold.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
As Nish has said, all articles already show the view count
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Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Thanx guys i saw it.
Gevik Babakhani
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It would be good if the editors/subeditors send us a report of what they corrected in our articles when they move them. This way we can avoid recurring in the same mistakes. I know this woulb probably give much more work to the editors than they currently have but that would make the articles more errorless.
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) The alcohol is one of the greatest enemys of man, but a man who flee from his enemys is a coward.
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Mauricio
They usually only edit the formatting. Unless the grammar totally sucks they don't touch the language.
If you format your HTML according to the CP specs, it'd be easier for them to move your article.
Nish
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
They usually only edit the formatting. Unless the grammar totally sucks they don't touch the language
I thought that they correct the language too... never mind then.. 
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
The alcohol is one of the greatest enemys of man, but a man who flee from his enemys is a coward.
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Mauricio Ritter wrote:
thought that they correct the language too
Ha! I'd like to see the day when someone thinks he can edit *my* English!
More seriously sometimes language has to be edited, specially when non-english speaking people submit articles. Not only language, but also spelling!
Nish
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Actually we correct formatting, language, spelling, sometimes remove superflous remarks, rework the images so they fit or are smaller (to save bandwidth), reformat code (and sometimes correct code), check zip files and remove unnecessary files (.obj etc) and then ensure that the articles titles, description, section placement, keywords and level are appropriate.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
we correct formatting, language, spelling, sometimes remove superflous remarks, rework the images so they fit or are smaller (to save bandwidth), reformat code (and sometimes correct code), check zip files and remove unnecessary files (.obj etc) and then ensure that the articles titles, description, section placement, keywords and level are appropriate.
w00t !!
No wonder you are overworked and have a backlog.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
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I apologize for the confusion created and for the wrong information 
Nish
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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This is the reason I've provided the 'Get Article's HTML' link. By taking a look at the HTML after we've formatted we hope that you'll get a guide for future submissions.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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