|
Hi Nish,
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I know most authors will find it hard to accept that someone would dislike their article. But that's how it is.
I agree. I would find it more palatable if the submission lacked quality. I've been keeping statistics with respect to what I recieve. What I've found is damn near as soon as one of mine hit, one or two univotes come in. Watching other articles submitted at nearly the same time (next to the article in question on the 10 most recent list), show others are not receiving them. This tells me it is arbirary and capricious.
Jeff
|
|
|
|
|
Jeffrey Walton wrote: This tells me it is arbirary and capricious
I should qualify this by stating the univoters are arbirary and capricious, not CP. I believe it was Marc who coined the term for this type of voter as 'fans'.
Jeff
|
|
|
|
|
Jeffrey Walton wrote: the site will only take action when a threshold is met in the forums
Jeffrey,
"The site" is me, insofar as decisions on what our team works on, and our number 1 priority is getting the new base infrastructure out the door so that we can continue to handle the growing load and not completely fall over.
Histograms will be available, we will also look to install voter tracking to weed out univoters, but they aren't going to happen today, and I am a little offended that you feel we leave authors to hang out and dry.
Please let me assure you that myself and my team are working literally around the clock and our weekends to enable us to introduce the features our readers and contributors have asked for and we are not sitting here ignoring you.
We're still a small team, though, and the infrastructure is massive, so getting the features that were requested by you and the thousand-or-so members will take time. For each feature we add we are going to have dozens of members complain that we should be concentrating on feature X instead of Y
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
Chris Maunder wrote: I am a little offended that you feel we leave authors to hang out and dry.
My apologies. My personality can be abrasive at times, with no mal-intentions.
I suppose it depends on how you look at it, but I only become passionate about things I care about. So if I did not care, my abrasiveness would not show (I know it is kind of perverted).
Jeff
|
|
|
|
|
This idea pops up as regularly as clockwork. Unfortunately, while this is a good idea in principle, it would be abused by the Univoters entering gibberish (the official language of Gibberania).
|
|
|
|
|
Pete O`Hanlon wrote: This idea pops up as regularly as clockwork. Unfortunately, while this is a good idea in principle, it would be abused by the Univoters entering gibberish (the official language of Gibberania).
Perhaps weighting the vote via the "Rate this Message" could balance that.
|
|
|
|
|
I voted your post 1.
My comment: adfafafdasfdafafads
|
|
|
|
|
Michael Dunn wrote: I voted your post 1.
My comment: adfafafdasfdafafads
And that's a perfect example. Instead of wondering why it got voted so low, we now know 2 things.
1) The vote really doesn't reflect any actual opinion of the content of the post.
2) The person who made the vote is a gibbering fool.
Now I won't lose any sleep on figuring out where I erred in the article/post. Had the person actually put something of a meaningful comment with the vote, it could be corrected.
|
|
|
|
|
??
{o,o}.oO( Did somebody say MouseDown? )
|)””’)
-”-”-
|
|
|
|
|
Codeproject does not have a dedicated WPF forum as of today.
|
|
|
|
|
So, whenever i use some <pre></pre> tags, apart from removing any empty lines within it, everytime the message is edited/posted, a couple more empty lines are added to the bottom of my message. Whats up with that? Infact, it might not be becuase of the pre tags, but just that i notice it when i use them, but still, stop woth the extra lines 
Code?
End of message
Bottom of message (written in sig) EDITED 5 times in total, see all that space? ^
My current favourite word is: PIE!
Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
|
|
|
|
|
And those damn smilely faces....
|
|
|
|
|
Smiley faces don't automatically get inserted though.
My current favourite word is: PIE!
Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
|
|
|
|
|
Added to the bug list
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ah, so much yellow... so many pictures.
My current favourite word is: PIE!
Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
|
|
|
|
|
The Undefeated wrote: so much yellow... so many pictures.
Grrr... They removed it before we could relish upon it. 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
|
|
|
|
|
Maybe its for the best.
My current favourite word is: PIE!
I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for.
-The Undefeated
|
|
|
|
|
Yikes.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
|
|
|
|
|
I find only two yellow lines now:
Page not Found<br />
The page you requested cannot be found.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
|
|
|
|
|
I think the dire need of the hour is to combat the following menace which growing like anything currently.
1) Cross Posts
2) Multiple Posts
A few of the old CPians take the pain of replying it with a message "Cross Post (Ignore)" for the benefit of other CPians to other save other CPians falling prey to these tricksters. I just thought if there could be some option where geographically distributed moderators can make a 'Lock Post'/'Disable Post'. Once the post is locked/disabled, it can only gather votes to die out or save itself in case of wrong categorization.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
|
|
|
|
|
I second that.
Once flagged as a cross/multiple post, it should be impossible to reply any more,
or to modify the post. Voting and delete-by-owner should be the only remaining options.
There is no need to reward the cross/multiposter with a link to his original post...
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
|
|
|
|
|
What about those that genuinely post a Question in the C# forum only to be advised it would be better answered in the ASP.NET or SQL forums?
A genuine mistake and this locking makes them look bad.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
|
|
|
|
|
OK, so give the owner a button to move the entire thread to the appropriate forum?
Maybe a better alternative: provide a "new link" button next to the "new message" button,
so a poster can post once, and can add a link in a second forum if he really feels the need.
A link would:
- not accept any text or replies where the link is
- when clicked, navigate to the original post
Anything, as long as it saves us from all these "wrong forum", "multiple post",
"cross-post but answering anyway" replies scattered all over the place.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
|
|
|
|
|
I don't know if it's wise to make cross-posting so easy. :P
I can imagine this being seriously abused. I think the "move thread" option is much a much safer idea.
{o,o}.oO( Did somebody say MouseDown? )
|)””’)
-”-”-
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
