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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: I think that the "Member no. XYZ" is unnecessarily displayed though.
Most of the things are based on it! Its a Unique Id of CP members.
Changes are progressive...
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: Its a Unique Id of CP members.
Thank you, but I knew that much.
But it is pointless to display my membership no right beneath my profile link. I was trying to find out what purpose it serves there, if any.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: But it is pointless to display my membership no right beneath my profile link. I was trying to find out what purpose it serves there, if any
Okay... lets take an example.. you want to run Luc's new article[^]... that is driven by Member Id. Now, if member Id's are not shown in profile pages, it would be really difficult to get what a member id is for a person and thus a problem!
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I had been through Luc's article already. But the member id is displayed in the URL. My question was what is the problem that is posed if the member ID isn't displayed in the profile page, or what exactly is the purpose that it serves by sitting there?!
If someone wants to view my profile, why would they need to know my "member id"?!
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Purpose it serves is... it provides a unique identification number to everyone in order to track you!
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: if the member ID isn't displayed in the profile page
If it is not posted, how come one will be able to get info about you. The site was earlier designed by MemberId. If you go to Who's Who page also, you will find that a filter option by MemberId is provided there.
Member Id by itslef aslo tells about how old an account is. It's easy to share too.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: Purpose it serves is... it provides a unique identification number to everyone in order to track you!
No bold font needed there! I'm trying to find "how" you track me with my member id. (If you answer in a "programmatic" way by writing code, like Luc's article does, I'll accept it). But, is there anything more than that?
Sandeep Mewara wrote: If it is not posted, how come one will be able to get info about you.
You could click on my user name (I'll be hosed if you didn't know that) and reach my profile? And that has all the information you need to know about me, doesn't it?
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: What's the use of it
I use it all the time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Like how? I'm trying to find out how can I use it too, and for what purpose.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Are you advocating "less available information please"?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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No, I'm sincerely trying to find out the "usefulness" of some specific information being displayed. Like, I see your member id and I do what with it?
If he says he's using it "all the time", I'd be interested to know one or two use cases of where it could be used. Because, in my 5 years here, I've never used the member id for anything.
If I could learn something cool and new, it would be good. But there has been no useful replies so far.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Member type icons got moved on the profile page, and added on the Who's Who page. No problem.
In the process, the table cell holding total rep number has disappeared; instead the number moved into the leftmost column, rather inconsistent with the rest of the page. And it lost its color.
I'm not sure I like it, I know my CPVanity app did not. Fixed that.
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1. when you're at it, how about putting the Debator cell in its alphabetical position?
2. I now calculate total value and color independent of where you put it; do you really want to drop total color???
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The first thing that came to my mind when i saw profile page changes was your CPVanity! 
Looks like you had already taken care of that!
Luc Pattyn wrote: rather inconsistent with the rest of the page. And it lost its color.
Earlier one looked more good... current one looks like... it has been forced to put total on the profile page.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: And it lost its color
This is how I should have done it last week, and saved a lot of gnashing of teeth over the whole 'Total Rep' thing. Total rep is a vanity thing and deserves to be separate. It was confusing to some members the way I had it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It seems that you get 2 'Editor' reputation points for editing your own answer - seems wrong to me!
DaveIf this helped, please vote & accept answer!
Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier. (Pete O'Hanlon)
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
modified on Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:46 PM
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Technically you are self editing, but say you have a thought sometime later that would be an improvement, making it easier for others, is that not beneficial?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Yes, but this is open to massive abuse. You get the points for answering (not editor points) and more if it's upvoted or marked as answer. That should be enough IMO.
DaveIf this helped, please vote & accept answer!
Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier. (Pete O'Hanlon)
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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Well, the bad thing is you don't get anything for updating your own article. Publish & move on?
IMO there should be some points awarded, with a limit of once a day (yes, I know, I'm against time-related limits, however here it does make some sense).
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Luc Pattyn wrote: however here it does make some sense
Why?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well,
1. I'm against time limits in general as they tend to stifle activity;
2. however updates should be rewarded, as they represent an effort to improve something.
But then there are the victims, the people who don't want to read the same article (and download and test the associated code) more than once a day. It is similar to CP having a daily newsletter, not a newsletter whenever a new article gets published. Low-pass filters can be useful, as long as they don't limit normal use.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: you don't get anything for updating your own article
I'm not sure you should...
When it comes to articles, I think the major thing lacking is that all members who have previously voted should get an email informing them of any updates (with an opt out of course) as often the premise that their vote was based on, particularly for low votes, no longer stands as it has been addressed in the update.
DaveIf this helped, please vote & accept answer!
Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier. (Pete O'Hanlon)
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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I just launched my third update on CP Vanity[^], which only exists for one week now. I fixed a few shortcomings, some major and some minor; some reported, some I discovered myself; and all this although the community had been very kind to the very first version of it.
Not rewarding such improvements could hamper final quality when authors are less obstinate. 
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DaveyM69 wrote: all members who have previously voted should get an email informing them of any updates
yes, that is a valid point. I did reply to each comment I got on version V1.0 when I released the next viable version. That was only some six people, so not too hard to do manually; I added the same message to all of them, thanking them as they really helped me improve things. I'm not convinced this should be automatic; if it is, IMO it should be opt-in. And is "watched items" not covering this already? Maybe clicking "bookmark this" should pop the question: "watch or not?".
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The thinking here is that you should definitely get edit points if you update your own article, and also if you update your own Tip n' Trick. Continuing, if you answer a question and then realise there is more to provide, you should get edit points, in the same way that if you edit someone else's answer - even just to clean it up. This same logic applies to editing the original question as well.
The trick is we need to implement an automatic way to detect if an edit is a minor or a major edit. In fact even defining "minor" and "major" is a debate in itself.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Fair enough - a feature 
DaveIf this helped, please vote & accept answer!
Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier. (Pete O'Hanlon)
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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