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Can we please stop the re-numbering of answers in Q&A? It gets very confusing when referring to a "previous answer", which then becomes no longer previous, and you have to look at date/time stamps to figure out what the hell is being discussed.
For that matter, IMHO, having the two tabs "Top Rated" and "Most Recent" is unnecessary and further pollutes the UI.
I don't see it as much of an inconvenience to scroll through the answers - there usually aren't that many. Let's just have a simple list, no re-numbering, oldest first. I think we'll be able to cope with that.
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Not so sure: the current listing puts the highest scored at the top. So the most-likely-to-be-right answer should be the first one people see.
I know what you mean though, I generally refer to other answers by the posters name to avoid that confusion.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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if referring by number is not recommended, then IMO the answers shouldn't be numbered at all.
referring by author name is not the ultimate solution though, there could be several answers by one member.
So I'm with Hans: chronological, no reordering. And if you must, as soon as it becomes relevant, just provide a hyperlink above the first answer, that brings you to the best so far.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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I agree with you Griff. The way it works now is the best way!
But if Luc's suggestion could be implemented and the numbering removed, that would discourage people from referring to the posts by number. They would probably still write "the post above" and such like, but that can't be helped.
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I'm not sure it's the best way, but I don't think the order based on time of original post is a good solution either.
I like the idea for the "best" solution at the top: people who are looking for a solution to that problem can find it the most easily, rather than just assuming the first solution is the one to go for.
Referring to an absolute address - "SAKryukov's post" - rather than a relative "above" or "number 2" works for me...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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We are no longer renumbering. Does this help solve the issue of not being able to refer to answers by number?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Does this help solve the issue of not being able to refer to answers by number?
Yes, thanks, it definitely solves that issue.
There is now another issue. Take a look at this: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/195819/vtable-and-virtual-pointer.aspx[^]
I just voted Solution 2 a five. This means it is now top-rated, and at the top of the list on the Top Rated tab. OK so far. If you look at the Most Recent tab, Solution 2 is also at the top of that list. This makes sense, OK? Now, the issue is, there's no way to view the Solutions in ascending numerical order.
There are two ways to fix this:
1. Throw up another tab (I think the term "throw up" will give you a hint about what I think of this).
2. Get rid of both tabs; just show one list, with a Sort by: combobox at top; the entries will be:
Top Rated
Oldest First
Latest First
[This setting should be persisted; I think one setting for all Q&A forums is enough; YMMV .]
Problem solved, much less clutter.
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I don't think they are quite working right, the numbers look wrong.
It's the 2nd of May, 18:15 GMT, and these are the figures at present:
Top Experts in the last 24hrs
SAKryukov (780)
Ashishmau (276)
Ankit Rajput (250)
Top Experts this month
SAKryukov (334)
OriginalGriff (245)
S Mewara (158)
How can SA have got more points in the last 24Hrs, than he did totalled in the last two days?
I can't believe he got univoted that heavily - I don't think I've seen any of his posts with a single univote yet!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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The issue is that we cache the values at different times. Once a day for the monthly, once an hour for daily. Things can get weird at the beginning of the month so I'll adjust.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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 I should have thought of that!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I know I often come here to bitch & moan, but I just wanted to thank you for the effort that went into dumpster-diving for the download counts.
In particular I appreciate the 5 points being credited for each download. I've often thought that while it is the forums that give us a sense of community, it is the articles that continually draw in new members. So I think that 5 points is a fair and well-deserved reward, given the time and care it takes to write a good article.
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Thanks for the thumbs-up.
They might be premature, though, because 5 points a download is leading to some excessive points and will be reduced to 1 points a download. Sorry.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Would you consider a compromise? 
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i want to delete my CP aacount
how do i do this?
is this a bug in CP? i dont find any way to opt out
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You've done the right thing by posting your mesage here, one of the admins will read the message here and do the necessary.
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Done.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I was quite suprised to see my rep had recently increased to platinum in the Author category without me submitting anything new, although I wasn't far away before. A look at my rep history suggests this is mainly due to numerous downloads of source etc from my articles.
Is this a retrospective fix being applied or someone/something crawling CP and downloading whatever they can?
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You now get five points for each download of your articles' source code, as well as for each bookmark that is made (by a user other than yourself).
I noticed I had 33 downloads this morning all in a row, starting at about 4:45 central time. Since CP doesn't tell you what article's file was downloaded, I don't know what articles were downloaded, but it looks as if someone is scraping the site. Maybe CP needs to add an "I am a human" check to keep the bots from doing this.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Nice to know it's not just me 
There have been 138 downloads from my postings since April 27. And I only have two articles!
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You need to be a member to access the downloads. If you try and download without be logged in, it takes you to log in page.
Is that not the human check?
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I mean implement a captcha system for EACH download, that requires user input before the download is permitted. Anyone can create a bot account and start downloading the files, just by doing a web request and parsing the article's page. IMHO, not implementing such a system allows undue load to be placed on the servers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
modified on Monday, May 2, 2011 11:31 AM
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: undo load to be placed
Surely you meant to write "undue load ..."
Besides that I'm with you with the captcha thing.
Cheers!
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: I'm with you with the captcha thing
I would be puzzled when a site that is all about sharing knowledge and code would start using CAPTCHAs.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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Why that Luc?
Would your article crawler suddenly stop working? 
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It's all about sharing knowledge and code with other individuals, not about allowing other sites to simply scarpe off the code and call it their own, which happens with increaing reularity.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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