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You are shitting me?
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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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Simple fix: don't swear.
(and no, I'm not being facetious. I'm asking)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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"Alex Salmond" yeah, should be banned!
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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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I think this has already been raised before, but I'll mention it again in case I'm wrong:
A lot of times, I see that a QA is marked as edited by someone, but when I check the revision history, there is no difference between the original post and the revision.
Here's an example: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/84985/How-to-send-text-messages-to-a-phone.aspx[^]
Compare the original post to the revision by Smithers-Jones. Marked as a minor edit - true, but the comparator doesn't show any difference.
Not to point fingers at any, but isn't that a cheap way of collecting editor's points?
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We have an open bug that the "minor change" isn't being set correctly. This will be fixed.
Editing can also be moving into a better section or changing tags. However, these should set the minor change to TRUE (which they will. Soon)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Great - I was quite sure I had seen it somewhere... 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Editing can also be moving into a better section or changing tags. However, these should set the minor change to TRUE (which they will. Soon)
But what if you change tags AND provide a significant edit of the content?
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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I often find myself editing questions that does not change the OP too much, but clarifies in terms of spelling, syntax and grammar, just to make it more easily readable and therefore answerable.
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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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I know, but in this case it literally showed no difference...
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Ah, that is a horse of a different colour, and if tagged as 'Minor Change' should be highlighted thusly.
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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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I'm pretty sure 'minor edits' don't award any reputation points.
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QA comments - sorry to bring them up again, but I just noticed that < and > characters get consumed by the HTML when you add them to a comment. So when you write a comment asking for a code fragment in <pre>...</pre> tags it looks a little silly!
Since there are no "<" and ">" buttons as there are with a "normal" message, you have to manually type them as < and > in order to see them in the resulting comment. For a beginner, this is not obvious!
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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so your comments look "a little silly" and you want to blame Q&A?
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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I need no help to make silly comments!
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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90% of the stuff on there I've never heard of and never used, of the remaining 10% I can't vote on it because I'm forced to vote on the other 90%. Is this just a thinly veiled piece of marketing fluff or an actual survey? Do you want people to just randomly click away on the stuff they've never heard of?
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better.
- Poul Anderson
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It's an actual survey and we'd appreciate your help.
How about I add a "No opinion" option to each question.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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yes please. and make that the default answer too.
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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After reading this thread, i went to the survey section(though i couldn't find a direct link on homepage to the survey in question, which all together can be another topic!). I saw this survey[^]. Went through the options.
I too didn't knew most of them. There should be an option that takes care of such scenarios where OP has no idea of any or most of them.
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The books question's answer choices of Wrox and Apress was extremely incomplete. At the least the following three should have been there : Addison Wesley, Microsoft Press, Manning. I had to vote for None of the above.
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It's a short list. We're using this to determine the winners from the top entries in the Catalog.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: We're using this to determine the winners from the top entries in the Catalog.
Ah okay, that makes sense now.
I went to the poll via the Daily newsletter. And it was not very obvious from the wording what this poll was about. Code Project's Members Choice Awards sounded like the ASP.NET Pro Mag's reader's choice awards. So basically, only those entries from the Catalog are included.
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