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Code Project has a lovely spirit: The will to help others without expecting anything in return. This one is very important, as until now any body who wants to post an article or something has nothing to worry about. On the other hand, although receiving a membership-fee would help this site, it would harm it in other ways. One of them is that not all people who log in can afford to pay the fee (many of them are young students). Another one is that it makes some discrimination between those who can afford to pay and others who can't.
I think that your idea can be better implemented through donations, and not fees. This, however, is my point of view, and I may be wrong. But I know that I am one of those who will not be able to pay any kind of subscription fees, and I believe that there is a big percentage of Code Project members who, like me, simply can not afford it.
Thank you for taking the time to read my reply.
<marquee>Hosam Aly Mahmoud
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Hosam Aly Mahmoud wrote:
The will to help others without expecting anything in return
Actually, I was not thinking of "removing" any currently offered services and making them subscription only, the site would stay the same. It would be "added" services that the current model cannot afford. High bandwidth video lessons, semi-public commercial software libraries, series of courses, etc.
If a person cannot afford a membership fee like $20 per month or something like that, the do not have to feel bad, there are plenty of information already on CP, this would just be a premium service to enable CP to have another revenue stream other than advertising. Would be nice for all those that can afford it since they would be able to expand their skill beyond what CP already offers.
It's just an idea though, I have a ton of those go through the old grey matter each day
Rocky Moore <><
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I can now understand your point. I believe it is a good idea (although I will not be one of those who can benefit from it, as my whole monthly budget is less that $20/month!). I hope you will continue to produce more good ideas. I apologise for my prior misunderstanding.
<marquee>Hosam Aly Mahmoud
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Actually, this kind of system could profit you depending on skill. If you were to design a video series, custom library or somehting else, you would be able to earn while providing the service to others. While earning a few hundred dollars is not much to someone making $75K per year, for those in other countries, it could be a major boost to their income.
Rocky Moore <><
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I can't find a way to only search speacial part of the site. For example I only want search articles on .NET parst. Would you please add it Chris?
Mazy
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With some of the recent threads in the Lounge and Soapbox, I have grown tired of reading the seemingly endless stream of responses to responses to responses. But, I am always interested to see if someone has posted something new.
The current message counters show the total number of messages and the number of new messages. Is there any real use to see the total message count? May be interesting, but I'm not sure I could say "useful."
What might be of more use is the number of "new" message threads and the number of "responses" to previous threads.
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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Good idea. This will speed things up as well.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I think users should have an account to post a question in any of the forums (especially the programming) because it makes communication more difficult.
John
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True... However, anonymous posting also lowers the barrier to entry here - many of us lurked posting only occasionally to ask questions or provide answers in the time prior to our realization of the full value this site provides.
Sad as it may seem, some people (myself included) tend to pass right on by sites that require membership (even free & easy membership) for use. While there is a valid (if regretable) reason behind the restriction on downloads, CP can, and i would hope will continue to, support posting by anonymous authors. If some choose never to go beyond this and sign up, well, it's their loss.
Just my $0.023
Shog9
drifting along
with the tumbling tumbleweeds...
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Any possibility of making the sig-box bigger in the account settings page? It's a bit small when trying to edit HTML . The size of the bio box would be great
Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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It's kept small for a very good reason
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
It's kept small for a very good reason
Yeah, I thought so
There is a limit on the number of characters though...
Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Sure - but I don't want to encourage people too much
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I don't want to encourage people too much
I can understand that
Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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A tutorial is an article that provides step-by-step explanations and walk-throughs of concepts. The articles you mentioned were marked as tutorials by accident and have been corrected.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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We ban anonymous posts in the lounge, judging by recent trolls and flamebait posts in the soapbox I think anonymous posts should be banned there too.
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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If I ban anonymous posts in the soapbox then it will mean that anonymous flameers will just go to other forums and cause havoc there. We need to Soapbox to allow people to let off steam in whichever form they desire.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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...to prevent the posting of a rating for an article without an explanation of the reason for that rating. It really sucks when your given a poor rating with no explanation of why. Implementing something like this would help to give a programmer more feedback on what's good, and what needs to be improved
It's good to see kids turning their minds to wholesum activities such as programming, instead of wasting their lives in the hedonistic disciplines of Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll... or Sex with Drugs, or Sex with Rocks while Rolling in Drugs, or whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now...
[Shog9 on Kid Programmers]
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I think that quote got screwed up...
It's good to see kids turning their minds to wholesum activities such as programming, instead of wasting their lives in the hedonistic disciplines of Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll... or Sex with Drugs, or Sex with Rocks while Rolling in Drugs, or whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now...
[Shog9 on Kid Programmers]
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John Aldrich wrote:
to prevent the posting of a rating for an article without an explanation of the reason
This has been mentioned lots of times in the past. The general conclusions are that we'd end up with reasons full of garbage rather than anything useful. People who want to leave comments will, those who just want to give low scores and not provide feedback should just be ignored.
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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How about we are able to get a list of who voted and what their vote was? Then you can find out who did it, spam their mailbox, find out where they live, burn down their parent's house, kidnap their cat, feed chicken bones to their dog, throw them in a deep pit, have them rub lotion on their skin until they are all prunish, then make them confess as to why they voted your article poorly.
Perhaps I just need my medication adjusted.
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The loungers may have noticed this great message from Mr. Wright.
It would be sad if such useful information were lost, wouldn't it? So, what about a new "Tourism" section in CP?
Silence Means Death
Stand On Your Feet
Inner Fear
Your Worst Enemy
Refuse! Resist!
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When I try to upload files, I got the following error. It happened atleast 5 or 6 times.
Oops!<br />
There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach.<br />
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Please try the following:<br />
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Click the Refresh button, or try again later if this error persists.<br />
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Open the CodeProject home page, and then look for links to the information you want (although this is probably not going to help if the information you need is on this page). <br />
Error info: <br />
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Page: /script/Submit/EditArticle4.asp<br />
Time: Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 1:33:31 PM<br />
Server: Web6<br />
Category: Dundas.Upload.2 <br />
The webmaster has been informed about this error.
"...if you don't want to hear things that piss you off don't piss off other people. SIMPLE." - Steven Hicks This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".
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It would be nice to be able to attach file(s) to a post, eliminating the huge messages that result when posting some code. It would also make the site faster.
The same goes for the "send Email" feature.
onwards and upwards...
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