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The forum in this article[^] contains a thread discussing the perceived fall in quality of unedited reader contributions. One of the suggestions in the thread is to move unedited articles with a low rating into a separate section of Code Project, in order to reduce 'clutter'.
One possibility would be to move the article into the 'inactive' section if the article had received more than N votes and had a rating less than R. This sounds like it could be automated as part of the rating mechanism. The mechanism could also notify the author so that they could revise and resubmit the article. N (minimum number of votes) would need to be large enough to prevent one or two disgruntled readers from trashing an article by themselves. R sets the required rating for the unedited article to be retained.
This same mechanism could forward or highlight successful unedited articles to the editors. This way, the editors could concentrate on articles that had passed a measure of peer review.
As an example, if N=10 and R=2.0, an unedited article that received 10 votes and still had a rating less than 2.0 would be moved to the inactive section, and the author would be notified. Conversely, if the article had 10 votes and a rating higher than 2.0, it could be added to the 'to-be-edited' list for the editors to look at.
(And yes, Chris, I know your can of spare time is as empty as mine ; I always feel guilty posting in the suggestions forum )
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't feel guilty posting suggestions. I save them all and the good ones will be implemented.
The editors already have a list of good articles essentially using the model you describe. The issue is that there are so many new articles that they are having trouble even keeping up with the direct submissions, let alone the unedited articles.
Having notifications of poor articles is a little tricky. What happens if an article's score fluctuates over the critical point? Obviously you limit the number of emails but then how often do you email an author? How often are articles left in the scrap heap until they are removed? All solvable, but they all need careful thinking about.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Unfortunately, you can cheat on rating by creating enough accounts or (script kiddie to the rescue) by spoofing.
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I would be interested in knowing (1)At what level the people at CP have finished school. ex. High School, College, Masters etc. (2)Then, how important that person thinks it is to finish each level in terms of becoming/being a great computer programmer.
Note: Question 2 would be with the mindset of whether it would actually help in the process of being a great programmer, not landing a great programming job. Question 2 would also be with the mindset of an all around programmer, not a specific one such as C++, VB, C# etc.
Mark Sanders
sanderssolutions.com
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It could be that the article submission wizard either needs to be limited to users with a proven article track record, or they get queued to be reviewed by an editor and then added.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003
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Roger Allen wrote:
or they get queued to be reviewed by an editor and then added.
I think the submission wizard will lose its meaning then.
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'm workin' on it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm workin' on it.
You need to relax a bit Chris. Take a holiday or something. I'll look after the ship while your gone... you'll probably work harder than ever before when you come back but sher who cares, right?
Regards,
Brian Dela
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i notice that a post with a single '5' rating will be colored red, but a post with one or even two '1' ratings won't always be colored gray.
what's the magic formula?
-c
Image tools: ThumbNailer, Bobber, TIFFAssembler
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From the FAQ:
If a message has been given a score that is below your noise threshold then it will appear dimmed out on the boards. A message must have at least 5 votes and be below your threshold to be grayed out.
Messages that have been voted greater than 4.5 will be marked as red regardless of the the number of votes it has.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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If I click on "Send to a friend" on the left side of an article, a form is shown to enter the user's name and email address and the recipient's email address. However, if I'm logged in, I would like to see the user's name and address field initialized with my data.
Regards
Thomas
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Yeah, that would make sense.
Shog9
I returned and saw under the sun,
that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong...
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try that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Ahhh, much better.
Shog9
I returned and saw under the sun,
that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong...
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Cool. Thanks, Chris.
Regards
Thomas
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What About some Topics On WinNT Services ?.
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I assume this is the correct forum for this :
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/.net_ftp_upload.asp?target=ftp%7Cupload
The link to the project files on this article is dead
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MrEyes wrote:
I assume this is the correct forum for this :
No, the correct forum would be the forum on the article page itself, which can be found when you scroll down to the very bottom of the page. Please report this issue to the article author himself and not here. This forum is for suggestions/complaints for the site admins, who look after the entire site. The links on the articles are a concern of the article authors, and hence should be reported to them.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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Thanks, I have, as suggested, added the comment to the page.
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Innovation, and Arthur C. Clarke.
(I'm not an 'IT' person, so I had to find something else to rant about)
Software Zen: delete this;
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There should be a separate discussion forum for Bitmaps and graphics.
I'll be grateful we could have one as early as possible
Thanks
Gaurav Gumber
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