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No thank you for the bug reports! 
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Three issues:
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When adding an alternative to a tip/trick, the original title, the alternative's author, and the first lines of the alternative get listed in the "Latest TT" list, as if the alt.author chose the title (he can't even edit it) and created everything.
I think the list should show the original title and author, and a message saying "alternative added by XYZ".
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The personal profile, when listing the tips/tricks, treats original and alternative TTs the same, so the tips tab on the "articles by XYZ" page is confusing, as some are original TTs, others mere replies to existing TTs (maybe on a subject I would never consider launching a TT about).
I would prefer to see a clear mark, maybe "original" and "alternative".
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The TT listing shows title, date, and all the regular stuff, including page views. On original TTs this looks like an actual view count, on alternates it is zero (even when votes have been cast). I understand original and alternatives share the page, so you can't really tell what was looked at; however showing zero does not seem right at all.
FWIW: happened here[^] and here[^].
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modified on Friday, May 14, 2010 7:19 AM
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Yeah, I always hated TT road frames - too squirrelly on the straights and too difficult to turn.
Wait. What were we talking about?
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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Well, the TT thingy I was talking about is basically OK, the only problem is it gets misrepresented a bit. All this could easily be fixed, not sure squirrels could contribute though.
FWIW: I prefer N over TT scale any day.
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No HO?
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nope. HO has the majority market share, but that is dominated by toys; the real modeler prefers either HO or N, depends very much by country. e.g. the Netherlands are very much N. And Swiss has a lot of TT!
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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There is nothing better than cruising past a TT wannabe on a roadbike. Although, riding next to them on hill climbs is almost as fun.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Reminds me of a guy I used to work with in Mountain View. He took a massive old mountain bike clunker and mounted at least one (may have been more; can't remember) automotive battery tied to a big-ass electric motor, which he connected somehow or other to the drive train. Big metal and wooden framework holding all this stuff on the bike... thing must have weighed 60 pounds. Or more.
So picture, if you will, Middlefield Road in Mt. View, California; probably one of the biggest showcases in the country for pretentious wannabe roadies who can afford the fanciest bikes in the world but don't know a thing about cycling... being passed up by an overweight engineer on a clunker, munching a donut on his way into work.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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Awesome.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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1. It's meant to be an alternate to the original tip and trick and so deliberately has the same title. If you wish to change the title the post a new tip. There is nothing preventing a similar tip being posted, but if it's truly an alternate then it goes under the same name.
The alternate should, in our opinion, also clearly be authored by the author who posted the alternate, not the original tip's poster.
2. I'll add this to the list
3. I'll add an item to store page views of alternates separately from the main article. I on the fence as to whether there is a huge benefit in doing this, and whether we should either show nothing, or just show the page views of the main tip (which is, obviously, totally inaccurate for the alternates)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
1. I don't want to change the TT title at all; but I don't want to see it with my name attached to it either. It was not my idea to begin with, the subject may or may not be something I would write about at all (I wouldn't in the case that triggered this), and I did not write the title, so his title + my name is a misrepresentation.
In the listing, just keep the title and original name, and add a note "alternative provided by XYZ", that is what I suggest.
Validating dates in dd-MMM-yyyy format [Tip/Trick] - girlprogrammer
Alternate 1, added by Luc Pattyn
3. I suggest you don't show "views=0". That too is a misrepresentation IMO.
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Can you give me an example of where a tip may be worded such that
a) you don't want to edit it
b) you want to provide an alternate,
c) you don't want your alternate to be named the same, and
d) you don't want to simply post the tip as a standalone tip
I'm trying to work out our use case here.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'm afraid you're still not understanding me.
The one tip (about date parsing):
- I wasn't able to edit (that is not my point now), editing it would not have been the right approach IMO anyway;
- I wanted to add an alternate (and I did);
- I agree the title was fine for the content (both the original and the alternate).
All fine so far, however:
- it was not a subject I would launch a tip about (rather trivial topic);
- it got listed in the "Latest tips" page with its title, immediately followed by my name.
The listing is here[^], the relevant tip is currently the fifth on that list. And obviously probably it appears at least once more in the list, when the original author created or edited it.
The fifth entry looks like I launched a tip with that subject. Which I would not do, and my point is: I don't want it to look as if I did launch such tip; all I did was offer an alternative that IMO is a much better way of doing (almost) the same (trivial) thing.
An analogy: Karl Marx writes his book "Das Kapital", it gets published on the web, and gets listed everywhere as Das Kapital, Karl Marx. Then you attach a book review to it, also on the web, and now it gets listed as: Das Kapital, Chris Maunder. Would you like that?
[ADDED]
The home page, "tip/tricks" tab, still correctly shows the title and original author; which is fine, but could be because my operation was less than a week after the original got created.
[/ADDED]
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
modified on Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:47 AM
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When writing an answer in the Q&A forum, the editor no longer shows the smilies collection. The space where they used to live is still there but they seem to have been evicted.
Now I'm not wealthy but I'll chip in to pay the back rent if others will too.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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the Emotional Toolbar must be on holiday, however the emoticons themselves are still fine: you can enter their code, and they will show up. Here is a cheat sheet[^] for you. That will be my contribution, I'm not chipping in beyond that.
![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Henry Minute wrote: my brain cell can only remember the standard smiley
then don't abuse your cell, just use the cheat sheet I provided.
And to keep it in good shape, don't forget to lubricate ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) ![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Do we need smilies in Questions and answers? Really?
Vote 5 for yes, 1 for no.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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We had some bad code on the system at exactly the time the newsletter went out. I was tempted to resend the newsletter but wasn't sure if that would merely annoy everyone more.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: but wasn't sure if that would merely annoy everyone more
I bet JSOP would have mentioned it!
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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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Fair enough.
But why not at least fix the version in the archive? It doesn't work either.
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Done
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The answer by the OP was breaking the page. I edited it.
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