Bugs and Suggestions

Nelek10-Aug-18 1:12

10-Aug-18 1:12

Particular articles taking part in competition are selected by the background algorithms, there is no particular guarantee that a new published article will get selected to the competition.

You are asking, why your article is not there.

I am asking where are the other categories.

A bit different Poke tongue | ;-P

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Sean Ewington10-Aug-18 3:50

Sean Ewington

10-Aug-18 3:50

The current competition is for July articles and your article was published in August. It's difficult to say whether or not your article will be included in the August competition, because it depends on what other articles are submitted and how high their rank is. But you're off to a great start.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Arthur V. Ratz10-Aug-18 5:06

Arthur V. Ratz

10-Aug-18 5:06

Sean, thanks a lot for your clarification. Smile | :)

Sean Ewington10-Aug-18 3:48

Sean Ewington

10-Aug-18 3:48

We should probably expand the category display on the home page so it doesn't just say "Best" (because it was designed to accommodate shorter categories like C++), but yes, we've opted to change the monthly competitions to a single best-of-the-month category for a number of reasons. As you mentioned there aren't enough items to fill every category. Mobile, Database, C++, even C# occasionally had trouble filling up with ten, high ranking articles. Additionally, we wanted to expand it to more forward looking topics like AI, IoT, blockchain, etc. but there aren't enough articles to support those categories either. Finally, because each competition is tag based, which can lead to problems like some articles getting missed or placed in two categories. This will fix a lot of those issues and still give us an opportunity to award excellence.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Nelek10-Aug-18 8:25

10-Aug-18 8:25

I think it is a good idea. I just missed the information and thought it could be a problem.

Thanks for the clarification Sean.

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OriginalGriff11-Aug-18 5:33

11-Aug-18 5:33

I know what you mean, but ... it's gonna be difficult to compare a blockchain article with an SQL, with a "beginners guide to debugging", and say "this is the better one". OK, we can vote for more than one article, I can't help feeling it's going to leave some very worthy articles out of the prizes because the majority aren't interested in the subject (yet).

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cancelling edition

Nelek8-Aug-18 2:59

8-Aug-18 2:59

If I edit a Q&A item and I save the changes, I go back to the Page of the question and see the changes.

If I click on "cancel" it doesn't bring me back to the page of the question discarding the changes, it brings me back to the homepage "https://www.codeproject.com/"

Cancelling the edition of a forum message works fine though, it returns back to the forum page

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Approvals list?

Nelek7-Aug-18 2:10

7-Aug-18 2:10

This Blog has been approved and is having the typical "sunglasses" problem of the Blogs with different font styles. I don't say it should be nuked because the content looks interesting, but I don't think it should have been approved yet.

Sadly, there are bad quality, bad formatted publications that are being systematically approved.

I still think that making the list of "approvers" public or partially public (e.g. Mentors, Protectors and CP Staff) could be a good idea. This way we could educate a bit the people who is blindly approving or detect patterns (see if puppeteers, friend lists or similar things are involved).
It looks like the people is afraid of clicking the "bad quality" or "needs help" reports and this is not making any good to the site.

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Richard Deeming7-Aug-18 2:11

Richard Deeming

7-Aug-18 2:11

Did you forget to flag the blog as "format / layout issues"? Mine was the first report. Smile | :)

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Nelek7-Aug-18 2:23

7-Aug-18 2:23

yes,
I forgot to report it in the published version.
I had reported it in the moderated version.

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Chris Maunder7-Aug-18 4:42

Chris Maunder

7-Aug-18 4:42

The list of those who approved it is already shown. See the left hand side column, at the bottom of the list.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Nelek7-Aug-18 6:19

7-Aug-18 6:19

I must be blind... I don't see it. Wether in IE11 nor in FF61

Is it something depending on privileges?

@OriginalGriff can you see it?

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OriginalGriff7-Aug-18 6:32

7-Aug-18 6:32

I don't see it either:

And

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Nelek7-Aug-18 20:06

7-Aug-18 20:06

Thanks for showing up Smile | :)

You are the "standard" user with the biggest privileges I could think of Wink | ;)

If you don't see it, then I suppose no one but the staff can see it.

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modified 8-Aug-18 3:20am.

RedDk8-Aug-18 5:30

RedDk

8-Aug-18 5:30

Chris Maunder wrote:
list of those who approved

... on this note, and as an aside (please excuse me for the hijacked thread N), when I get to put the final kibash on a moderated piece or flagging spamule, there's the boat full of fellow cpians about to be appropriating my name (carcass), and "technically" I have no idea what "Closed because content has been posted that is spam" ... means.

Shouldn't the message read something more along the lines of "Misquoting Donald Rumsfeld should be a federal offense but it's ok to paraphrase him as if he was Bob himself"?

Laugh | :laugh:

Nelek22-Aug-18 21:22

22-Aug-18 21:22

Hi Chris,

Sorry, I don't want to disturb you. But as the symbol of the message is "answered" and you didn't say anything else, I am not sure if you have realized my and OG's answer saying that the list is not visible.

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Chris Maunder23-Aug-18 14:06

Chris Maunder

23-Aug-18 14:06

Can you see it now?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Nelek23-Aug-18 20:30

23-Aug-18 20:30

I can see:

CP Site wrote:
Approved by
Editor or trusted author

in all the articles that are now in the recent list of the homepage (the newest of them 4 hours ago)

But as it is, it doesn't add any value to spot puppets or friendly approvals.
For that we need the real user's list, the same as when an article got nuked it shows who reported it.

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Nelek27-Aug-18 3:49

27-Aug-18 3:49

Hi Chris,

just wanted to let you know, now it is working fine.

I can see the list

@OriginalGriff can you confirm it too?

Question: Does the list update itself, when an article goes again through validation? Can you see who approved in different versions?

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OriginalGriff27-Aug-18 4:04

Site hangs in Firefox; works fine in Chrome

27-Aug-18 4:04

Yes, I see it. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Richard Deeming7-Aug-18 2:09

Richard Deeming

7-Aug-18 2:09

I opened the site in Firefox, and tried to reply to a message. Posting the reply hung, and any attempt to open any other page on the site now hangs.

At the same time, on the same machine, I can open the site in Chrome, log in as me, and post messages.

Now, roughly 20 minutes after first attempting to reply, the site is responding in Firefox again.

Is there a bug lurking somewhere? It looks like Firefox is connecting to WEB04-2016, whereas Chrome is connecting to Web06-2016.

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Where is the Article of the month competition?

OriginalGriff7-Aug-18 0:57