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I'm afraid you are mistaken, there most likely is a big difference between accounts, people and active users.
There are 950 golden accounts, probably all belonging to different people;
there are almost 6 million accounts in total, the number of people involved is unknown.
It would be my guess the number of active users (lets say people having an account and logging in at CP at least once a year) could be well below one million.
I do recall we recently had an account with just the single message asking how to delete his account; the recent flock of "doubting" people just today have proven to have more accounts than people; and I don't hear or see several people anymore that were very active some 12 months ago.
So things being very dynamic, and accounts being somewhat hard to get rid of, I would stay far away from mentioning 6 million users. After all, every page mentions there are some 20,000 people on-line at this very moment. Did you ever notice a much higher number? and do you think most people log in and out all the time?
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It would be interesting to see how many actually active accounts there are, but I don't think Chris would give that number up for fear of loosing advertisers.
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Why not just have MVP and bugger all else in terms of rating?
It would seem more democratic to me. The Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum statuses don't really make much sense - especially for lounge lizards like me - and could be replaced by the Messages posted description (expand it though - I'm much more than a "personality"!).
Hold elections on MVP status, and hold them more regularly. Members could nominate people who have been useful and/or re-elect those they consider still worthy. This would both involve the entire community in the process, and keep MVP's (like Moobs) on their toes (and maybe, just maybe, stamp out the Lord of the Flies mentality that rewards unpleasantness on this site, on occasion.)
Just a thought. Just a thought.
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text
Ain't that Groovy?
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Nice one, Moobs.
How about -10 points for each and every post on bowel movements and -100 points for racist commentary?
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text
Ain't that Groovy?
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Why is it messages get accounted for only through a possible MVP status (of which only 40 are awarded, so message quality isn't absolute, it is a competition of kinds), whereas articles count directly and absolutely?
Since in the end you get what you award, some people will start calculating "How many (possibly crap) articles do I need to keep my silver/golden nugget?"
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MVP indicates a person that is actively helping the community. This help is effected via answering questions in the forums and through posting articles. I believe (but I'm not sure) that it's not merely message count but might also include some sort of "worth" calculation based on votes you receive on the messages you post (in the programming forums).
Luc Pattyn wrote: How many (possibly crap) articles
Hopefully, the "crap" is caught by the pre-screeners. Besides, that's one of the reasons I suggested such high points values for progressing from one level to the next.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Hopefully, the "crap" is caught by the pre-screeners. Besides, that's one of the reasons I suggested such high points values for progressing from one level to the next.
Wouldn't your system make it 'easier' for these "crap" articles to make it into the general article pool?
As I understand it now the articles are screened in large bye the gold members. But with your system there will be less gold members to do this, therefor increasing the chances for these articles to go unchecked.
I know the code project staff screens them as well, but still.
I do agree with the general idea however.
In my case I'd be bumped down to bronze again, I think, but I don't really care about the status, I give help (where I can), and receive help when needed. That's a reward on its own.
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Actually, they would probably sit in the pending approval queue longer because there would be fewer gold members to go through them, and the remaining gold members (after the level adjustment) would probably be much more selective about what gets through.
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Messages are accounted for (in absolute terms) in Gold/Silver etc status too.
Luc Pattyn wrote: Since in the end you get what you award, some people will start calculating "How many (possibly crap) articles do I need to keep my silver/golden nugget?"
As they have been doing for years and will continue to do.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Messages are accounted for (in absolute terms) in Gold/Silver etc status too.
Yes, and I accept that; however it's the one point John did not justify in his proposal. So I asked.
Chris Maunder wrote: As they have been doing for years and will continue to do.
Of course. All I'm saying is be careful when considering such changes. And please don't change fundamental things often, consider them well then keep the rules constant for several years.
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I whant to remove my account.
Cant find the anyting about howto.
Please someone help me.
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You can't remove your account. You can simply choose not to use it. If you removed your account, it would break the referential integrity.
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Actually, Chris just has to give us a way to mark it as disabled (which would not be something we could un-do). This would essentially delete the email address so no further emails would be sent from CP. To be honest, they really need to add this functionality.
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Oh I agree. We generally use status fields to mark records as active or closed, but until he adds it in, the OP is stuck with the relevant solution. Really though, is it that hard not to use the account again?
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Yeah, I know. My faded memory is that we had it and I kept getting tons of 'I can't get access to my account' emails, followed by 'yes, I checked the 'remove account' box. Why?' discussions.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Well, to avoid the problem, the site could send an email to the user's email address and make them click back to a verification page to make sure they KNOW their account is being removed. This verification page could provide an explanation about the consequences of deleting/disabling the account, and make them click a button to finalize it.
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Account removed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Have seen the forum bookmarks before (I think) and they never worked for me. However, they seem to be working now, thanks. Any chance you can add it for all forums, including the personal ones that some people have and all the hidden ones? Thanks!
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Hello Chris,
For some articles it could be usefull to have a link to a online doxygen or javadoc documentation. For one of my article, I plan to provide a zip file containing doxygen documentation instead of documenting every classes and functions in the article itself. I think it could be nice for people to also be able to browse the documentation online (and not need to first download the zip and unzip it).
Do you think it could be a usefull feature ?
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The whole point of an article is to sell me on your idea. If I can't get enough detail from reading the article then the article has not served its purpose - adding API docs is hardly going to sell me on the idea that should have come across by reading a well written article.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The whole point of an article is to sell me on your idea.
It really depends of the kind of article you submit. If the article is about a concept (design pattern, ideas, ...), then I agree with you. But if you submit an article as a kind of library or control (e.g. the MFC grid control from Chris), then things are a bit different: the article should contain enough information to be able to use the control properly, not only convince people that it's a good control
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: adding API docs is hardly going to sell me on the idea that should have come across by reading a well written article.
I totally agree, that's why putting the API documentation inside the article makes it heavy and is unecessary there. But you need to supply it anyway because if people want to use your control, they need to have it. And in general, it is a bit more easier to simply have a link to the API documentation instead of downloading a zip file.
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I come from the angle that the well written article will make me want to download the code and investigate it myself. There are many things that I've downloaded in the past which have no earthly use for me, but the article has interested me enough to want to learn more.
Maybe I'm just freaky this way, but no matter how well documented the API is, if the article doesn't convince me that the control fits the bill, then I won't bother downloading it (and yes - I did download your charting control because of the article, even though I don't do C++ any more).
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In fact we both agree: I also think an article should be well written enough to convince me to use the control (or the library). But on the other hand, once I made my mind to use a specific control and start using it, I tend to prefer browsing online documentation rather than downloading it.
Anyway, it's not really important: having to download the documentation is not really a big effort 
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: and yes - I did download your charting control because of the article, even though I don't do C++ any more
Thanks 
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Cedric Moonen wrote: I tend to prefer browsing online documentation rather than downloading it.
The reason I don't do this: MSDN. I suppose that's an unfair example, but I find MSDN to be unwieldy and intrusive.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The reason I don't do this: MSDN
 Well, yeah it is a very bad example. I've used some open source libraries and a lot of them provides some kind of API doucmentation (in general doxygen or Javadoc). When done correctly (and that's not too difficult to do), it is a very valuable tool. Of course, on its own it is not enough: you have to provide some overview tutorials so that people have a broad overview of the library. But after that people need to be able to search for detailed information about a specific part of the library. That's what I am thinking about: the article contains the tutorial and overview, and along with the article you supply the API documentation.
Did you already use doxygen (or javadoc) generated documentation ? It's something I could not live without for a lot of libraries that I'm using.
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