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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
The only ones I know for sure are smile, frown, grin, beer and flower.
Then you've pretty much got the ones that count
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Well, at least you ended it with an icon I knew.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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Scratch that last message. When I came back here, I noticed it was winking and not a smiley face. Oh well.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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They all have ALT text popups now, and have for as long as I can recall. What browser are you using?
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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IE 6.0.2. I don't get any (just on these, in case you're wondering if I have it turned off ).
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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Looking at the source code, I don't see any ALT text in the IMG tag.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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I think he means in the 'post new message' window.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion
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Good call. You're probably right. But I was talking in the actual message thread.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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any chance that authors will be able to query for download stats on the various files associated with an article?
i'd be interested, for instance, in knowing what proportion of people download the sourcecode as well as the demo or tool.
ps. i'm guessing that such information is already stored/maintained by codeproject (or its host).
.dan.g.
AbstractSpoon Software
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It will be done.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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i don't want to pushy or nuthin' chris, but...
'this year, next year, sometime, never?'
.dan.g.
AbstractSpoon Software
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Next year.
To do this I'll need a system that will go through old logs to update the download counts of zips from old files. We generate around 30Gb of logs a month, so over 5 years that's a lot of processing work Paul has written an analyser for other reporting that we can retrofit. We also need to handle cases where articles (and hence downloads) have moved, and also cases were download names have changed (eg mysource100.zip -> mysource1.50.zip)
Once that's inplace I'll also have to mod the current system to track downloads correctly (half a day's work) and hook it all up. It's not a difficult thing, but compared to our other priorities (uptime and speed) it's about medium on the TODO list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Ouch. 30 GB of logs a month? Exactly how many servers does CodeProject use?
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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I had a really horrible fashback of you being Andrew Divoff from the Wishmaster films then I read that. I even heard his voice - "It is done".
Wishmaster[^]
Anyway. Going on to read how you are going to get the stats, I thought it migh be interesting if the CP developers / admins wrote some articles on how certain problems arrose and how they solved them. I think it would be a great educational insight into workings of a big site like this.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion
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Any chance of adding a few more pixesls of space between the "Rate this message 1 2 3 4 5" line and the "Modify Delete" line. I seem to keep clicking on Modify when I try to give a 5 rating"
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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You need to improve your hand eye co-ordination.
-prakash
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I agree. I went to modify your message and ended up voting you a 5!
To people wondering why this is a problem, consider laptop users, especially occasional laptop users like myself, who can't exercise the same level of control on a trackpad as they can with a mouse.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion
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I'd like to see voting disabled in the Soapbox.
I'd be interested to see if people would contribute more to a discussion rather than voting down anything that doesn't fit their own personal world-view.
It would also be good to ban anonymous posting in the Soapbox, to see if it cuts down on the trolling.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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This would kind of defeat the purpose of the soap box. It's meant to be the place everyone can come and have it out with each other. It's the pressure valve of CodeProject.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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How about putting more vote numbers next to the rating? General, gold, bronze and platinum icons with their averages next to the total average rating? This way, a person can determine who his best and worst audience is. This is useful mostly for the articles.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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While I am seldom in the "not kid sister" friendly soapbox, I do not think removing the voting would increase responses much. It seems if a person is casting a vote and not adding a response, may not think it is worth their time to post anyway.
I know for me, I have never replaced a response with a vote. If I feel the need response, I do it with a post. Votes are simply a method to say you agree or not with a post. Would hate to see 25 posts saying simply "Yep, I agree", or "Not for me"...
Rocky <><
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Yep;)
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
"Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I agree.
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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I agree with this, at least the bit about disabling voting. In the other forums, voting can work to highlight or de-emphasize especially good or bad posts. But the nature of The Soapbox causes a good deal of polarization WRT public opinion - a post can go from red to gray to neither in the space of an afternoon, based on who happens to be reading at the time.
Worse yet is the possibility that voting discourages people from replying. I doubt that this is so common, yet seeing a post with only 1-votes and only positive replies indicates that it might - obviously, there is disagreement, but rather than share with the rest of us the reader leaves his ambiguous "1" and moves on.
Now, i wouldn't mind seeing voting replaced with a kill file feature...
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things..."
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