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Unanswered can also mean "bad question". We don't want the front pages to be littered with flotsam and jetsam
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Totally agree, however, isn't that why we vote on messages. An additional bussinss logic rule could be that messages with a 3 or less, are downgraded in priority.
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry
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I don't want things to move around by themselves.
I hate it when menus do that, when the notification area does it, when the desktop icons do it.
Things should remain where they were.
Anyway, after a short while, in your suggestion, either the first page would be filled with crappy
questions without answers, and/or people would start adding crappy replies to get rid of unanswered
questions... Please just let it fade away the way it works right now.
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Don't your post move now, with new ones being added at the top of the forum?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry
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I can have my browser scroll and move to the next/previous page, the messages I have read remain
in order though, so I will always recognize what I have seen before at a glance. And that is
what I insist on having, always and everywhere.
If in your proposal you have been reading messages on one page for say 5 minutes, and then ask for
the next page, what will you say when some, an indeterminate number of, messages, are from
the ones you just read, and those are not necessarily at the top of the new page, but all over
the place?
no thanks.
BTW: you are aware there is a "view unanswered questions button" on top of the pages?
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While I agree with all of you comments, they all have a simliarity of assuming unasnswerd questions are bad. Is that true?
What about good questions that just don't get attention?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry
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Jason McBurney wrote: assuming unasnswerd questions are bad. Is that true?
No, they aren't making that assumption at all. There are actually multiple issues here.
1. Posts should always be displayed in the same order, regardless of how many answers a post has.
2. Posts may be unanswered for several reasons:
a. The post is just junk and no one wants to give it any more attention.
b. The post doesn't make sense.
c. The post simply got missed.
3. In your proposal, not only would posts jump around based on the number of answers, but all posts without an answer would always be on the first page.
If the desire is to quickly see all of the posts with no answers, there is a "View unanswered questions" option for each forum which does exactly that. Yes, it requires an explicit choice by the reader but it keeps the flow of the forums consistent and moving forward with older posts falling to later pages as new ones are added.
Scott Dorman Microsoft® MVP - Visual C# | MCPD
President - Tampa Bay IASA
[ Blog][ Articles][ Forum Guidelines]
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
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chris & co.
On my dev machine I got script error "missing ')' ". I fired the debugger and behold noticed a missing ')' on the two functions ConfirmDelete() and ConfirmModify() in /script/forums/list.aspx
no harms, just annoying when running with script debugging turned on. 
Yusuf
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Oops, thanks, fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Great, thanks, I wish my bank takes quick action like CP. I get tonnes of script errors.
Yusuf
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Yusuf wrote: I wish my bank takes quick action like CP. I get tonnes of script errors
Maybe that's a sign to change banks? 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Paul Conrad wrote: Maybe that's a sign to change banks?
What to? The Bank of Code Project? Hand over all your money to Chris so he can afford to feed the hamsters.
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maybe. Would be better than IndyMac 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I have marked few articles today and I can't see them in my bookmarks list. Event my previously marked bookmarks are not there.
When I click on My Bookmarks link, it shows me, "Sorry! We could not find the information for your request."
What am I missing here.
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Try again - sounds like a load issue
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I like the "Normal" thread layout in the forum but would like to view more than 50 posts per page. 100 maybe.
Any way to do this? I'm not bothered if the page takes longer to load - I always end up pressing Next anyway which takes even longer.
Ta.
Cheers
[d3m0n]
Email (replace "***" with "key")
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It's limited on purpose to share the loveload on the servers.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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OK thanks for letting me know 
Cheers
[d3m0n]
Email (replace "***" with "key")
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-- Unable to load messages due to high load or server error. Please try again --
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Working right now.
Scott Dorman Microsoft® MVP - Visual C# | MCPD
President - Tampa Bay IASA
[ Blog][ Articles][ Forum Guidelines]
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
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The forums have been doing this a lot today, especially between 10AM and 2PM (UK time).
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If you've en watching the session count you might have noticed load has jumped fairly dramatically (20% - 30% in the last couple of weeks). This is the reason.
We have ordered a new box of newer, faster, better, stronger hampsters - they should be arriving next week. We'll also then be able to turn on our SQL farm which will be very excitement.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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You're calling in the Six Million Dollar Hampster? Sweet. 
Don't take any wooden nickels.
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I can always loan you a hamster. OK, ours likes to run on the outside of the wheel (jammed up against the cage) getting its little hamster jollies, but boy can it run.
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