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Colin Davies wrote:
have provided an invaluable service
To summarise: Altruism towards CP is looked upon very highly be Mr Maunder. 
Cheers,
Simon
"From now on, if rogue states want to buy weapons of mass destruction, they're going to have to go on eBay," Mr. Bezos said.
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That's where the "Up to Platinum" part comes in. You don't get bumped up from Gold without writing insane amounts of articles.
You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks
-Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past.
-Chris Maunder
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David Stone wrote:
You don't get bumped up from Gold without writing insane amounts of articles.
And hopefully decent ones! 
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages
A moment of silence please. A programmer's best friend has passed beyond that great exception in the sky.... - Mark Conger on "The coffee machine has died"
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I LOVE the CodeProject!
I worship Chris!
The problem with the message bords, is that it just takes about 4 hours (on vc++) before the question is gone - to the next page.
Even if you didn't get an answer. The solution is to write the same question again, and again crowding the messageboard.
Can't the threads be marked with 'completion' or 'satisfacrory response'
for later filtering?
Perhaps setting the standard amount of trheads to 50 instead of 25 would help?
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Hugo Hallman wrote:
Can't the threads be marked with 'completion' or 'satisfacrory response'
for later filtering?
That would be a good idea...
Perhaps at the top of each forum there could be something similar to "Question Time" in the lounge where any questions from the last day that hadn't been marked as "completed" could be displayed in a round robin fashion. Maybe they wouldn't even have to be marked as completed... just basically show the thread titles in the "Previous Questions" box.
Hugo Hallman wrote:
Perhaps setting the standard amount of trheads to 50 instead of 25 would help?
Setting the standard to 50 would slow down the site considerable for people on dialup or other slow connections.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Hugo Hallman wrote:
Can't the threads be marked with 'completion' or 'satisfacrory response'
Who would mark the threads? What happens if someone marks a thread 'completed' but it's not actually completed?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Instead of puttihng as completed or to-b-completed.... why not they grouped under the question... like the directories displayed in thge windows???... So that the user sees only the questions in the page, and scrolls IN to see the answers??
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Who would mark the threads? What happens if someone marks a thread 'completed' but it's not actually completed?
Chris,
If A starts a thread and B answers it.
The A login could mark the thread completed or answered sucessfully.
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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Well it is working, but for me (and I've tried this now on two different machines) it pops up two windows instead of the one it used to.
"Life, as well as software, has bugs." - Roger Wright
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David Wulff wrote:
Well it is working, but for me (and I've tried this now on two different machines) it pops up two windows instead of the one it used to.
It almost always had two popup's for me. Sometimes it was one, but rarely.
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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Oh, it has only just started hapenning for me (last couple of days).
"Life, as well as software, has bugs." - Roger Wright
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David Wulff wrote:
Oh, it has only just started hapenning for me (last couple of days).
Just tried it now on this machine and it's opening on one page. 
Regards,
Brian Dela
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When viewing an article I've already rated, it would be nice to have the score I gave it displayed rather then the score board form.
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
"In meetings, the person who is least competent usually does the most talking. Talking is a direct substitute for competence, at least in the minds of other people. Five minutes after you leave a meeting, you won't remember what anyone said but you will remember who did most of the talking. Withing a day your mind will translate that into a notion that the talker was unusually knowledgeable" - Scott Adams, Dilbert and the way of the weasel
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Dylan Kenneally wrote:
When viewing an article I've already rated, it would be nice to have the score I gave it displayed rather then the score board form.
I think displaying both would be a good idea.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
I think displaying both would be a good idea
That would suggest that you can vote for the article again, and might confuse people
Dylan
"In meetings, the person who is least competent usually does the most talking. Talking is a direct substitute for competence, at least in the minds of other people. Five minutes after you leave a meeting, you won't remember what anyone said but you will remember who did most of the talking. Withing a day your mind will translate that into a notion that the talker was unusually knowledgeable" - Scott Adams, Dilbert and the way of the weasel
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Dylan Kenneally wrote:
That would suggest that you can vote for the article again, and might confuse people
Sorry. I was thinking of the actualy rating score not the rating form. Sorry. My mistake.
Regards,
Brian Dela 
Níl aon tintéan mar do thintéan féin.
Is fear rith maith ná droch sheasamh.
Irish Sayings
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Hi
I get so many bad emails (ok, not that many) when replying so posts. IMO the user should have to revalidate his email when he changes it (and when he registers, it was so long ago  ), and secondly should not have the ability to change it on individual posts. I agree some people have multiply accounts for say work and home , but that is also an idea
My 2 cents
PS: and the emoticon bug(s) could be fixed too eg ( )
"I dont have a life, I have a program."
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leppie wrote:
and secondly should not have the ability to change it on individual posts
You do. You can change your email address at the end of each post.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
leppie wrote:
and secondly should not have the ability to change it on individual posts
You do. You can change your email address at the end of each post.
Read it again! Thats exactly what should NOT be allowed, as some "stupid" people keep there reply to email checkbox check and I have to receive an undeliverable mail and the CP has to try and mail the an unknown address placing an extra burben on badwidth again.
"I dont have a life, I have a program." Also, I won't support any software without the LeppieRules variable.
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leppie wrote:
Read it again! Thats exactly what should NOT be allowed, as some "stupid" people keep there reply to email checkbox check and I have to receive an undeliverable mail and the CP has to try and mail the an unknown address placing an extra burben on badwidth again.
Ah.. the joys of getting little sleep.. I'm unable to read!!!
Regards,
Brian Dela
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The "Stop Degrading Articles" thread in The Lounge has given me an idea - perhaps the rating system should be skewed in favour of people who supply a comment? That way, those that choose to give an article a low rating with no explanation are penalised...
IMHO giving an article a low rating with no explanation reeks of cowardice...  I think the author has a right to an explanation. Constructive criticism is a good thing, so explanations should be encouraged...
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
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I think this will only result is stupid comments or useless characters typed.
What I would like to see is that the author can't vote on his own article.
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
What I would like to see is that the author can't vote on his own article.
And you'll prevent him from creating other Cp accounts in order to vote on his own article ?
Back to real work : D-17.
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.S.Rod. wrote:
And you'll prevent him from creating other Cp accounts in order to vote on his own article ?
Hardly, but as everyone knows, it wont weight much when you vote with a new(er) account. So this wont be much of a problem.
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I think the article rating should also include the number of views and number of downloads.
There are only 10 kind of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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