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Bottom left in the Lounge, underneath the GIT link.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The CodeProject Insider ad? That's ours. I can tone it down if it's a problem.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'll second the motion. It might not be blinkier than some of the page top ads, but it's more annoying since it doesn't get scrolled out of sight in a few seconds.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Is there some way to tell who has approved an article for publishing? I've seen quite a few cases where comments have been added asking the author to make improvements, or where the article was not deemed appropriate, yet it shows up as approved anyway. Could we trend who is making approvals?
It's not a perfect world and there will always be issues but at least having someone take, or be forced to take, responsibility for their actions I think would improve the quality of the articles being approved and the site in general.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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So, we're seeing approvals not improvals. Sorry, I just liked the improvals word.
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I seldom look at articles-needing-approval; when I do I often see messages with good suggestions have already been added while the article formally often also satisfies the requirements for approval as stated in the legend. Since all messages and votes are (used to be?) discarded upon approval, this poses a big dilemma: approving it would be strictly correct, however it may not be the best way to go.
A few times I've proposed a more elaborate approval scheme requiring a number of points of some kind, where those points get gained and lost by reader actions, making it (1) impossible for a single person to approve an article and (2) harder to get approved once some down-votes have been cast.
I also think removing messages is wrong in general, and especially here as approval isn't even an edit operation, so whatever was said in the messages is still as valid as it was before approval.
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Removing messages is the fair thing to do for authors who have undergone several revisions under the sometimes less-than-kind suggestions of moderators. Being able to have their article start off with a clean slate helps them enormously.
The comments of the moderators are extremely valuable, but they will often be extremely out of date if revisions have been made and so become detrimental.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I understand messages could become stale and irrelevant when the article gets edited, I'm not sure removing them automatically is the right thing to do. I for one am not going to type the same message again if the author has ignored my recommendations on his first edit (and I would like to read my message again when looking at an updated article). Maybe keeping them visible to their author and the article's author is the right thing to do.
As I said, the fact of approving an article does not modify the content, and IMO should therefore not remove messages (assuming it does right now).
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This is already on our TODO list. I agree it would be helpful
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You guys recently (like 3 weeks ago) made a change to the Latest Article page where both visited and unvisited links show up in blue. It used to be that visited links showed up in purple. Having them both the same color makes it really difficult to see what articles you've already looked at.
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I remember reading the exact same thing some time back (probably in last 7 days only!), but I couldn't find it. Was you the one who reported/requested the same thing earlier? Did you deleted the earlier one and reposted today?
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Fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'm afraid it has returned to the unfixed state of affairs, probably driven by the popular dislike of magenta everywhere...
I think you need a distinct CSS class for followed hyperlinks, to be used only on pages that would really benefit, i.e. where the links themselves are the purpose of the page, as in Latest Articles. And not in navigation panes or message forums, where the links are rather used like buttons.
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Part of the trick is handling the inconsistency in handling CSS selectors between browsers. I'll go back to tried and true (and tedious) methods and be more selective in which links are to be marked as 'visited'.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Just curious, have you considered having three grades of browsers: A-grade you want to get everything correct on, B-grade you support while accepting some minor defects, C-grade you don't worry about?
or is it just impossible to get the most popular top-3 (I'd guess IE, FF, Chrome) to agree on just anything and into A-grade at the same time?
in fact I would suggest you include something about such intentions in some kind of a public mission statement...
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That's an excellent way of doing it and something we informally do now, as much as possible.
A-grade: Latest Chrome/Safari, Firefox, IE8
B-grade: IE7, Firefox 2X, Opera (though Opera is usually well behaved, give or take)
C-grade: everything else, except
Annoying-grade: IE6.
IE6 is still supported to the extent that the site works, but we make no guarantee of how good it looks. Too many businesses still use it (12%) and it has a 45% adoption rate in China. nuts.
Between the A/B grade browsers we have all sorts of issues. CSS 2+3 support is great in Chrome, OK in Firefox, terrible in IE8. Clipboard handling is great in IE8, bad in Firefox, terrible in Chrome. Rendering / JS execution speed is great in Chrome, OK in Firefox, pretty bad in IE.
IE9 will probably be the gold standard when it comes out, but I'm guessing only briefly. I'll wait and see.
And the idea of a public statement is a good one. I will add this somewhere.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Very interesting. Thanks.
Chris Maunder wrote: Annoying-grade: IE6
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So the fix has been removed? It worked this morning, but now its broken again.
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I regularly want to look up a member by (partial) name, sometimes it works, often it doesn't; it is unreliable and almost useless.
Today I looked for "mahesh" (and "mahesh*") and did get "S Mahesh Reddy" but did not get "Maheshwari" nor "maheshwari.vetri" which was what I wanted to find.
I don't understand what makes it so hard to search a simple text field.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I don't understand what makes it so hard to search a simple text field.
7.5 million members and a no support for partial word searches in SQL Full Text indexes, and insanely slow searches when doing LIKE scans.
As I have said before: we are working on search. Not a tweak but a complete rewrite.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I understand partial-word searches probably (or even inherently) are slower, however they sometimes work well, and often they don't. That is the puzzling part of it. I saw no indication of a time-out, all I got was a single match within a few seconds.
[ADDED] Seems like partial word search does not work at all any more, appending an asterisk doesn't do a thing, no error message, no change in the results??? (Just tried "Maund*", only found "Jay Maund"). This is new, it has worked before. If you don't support it any more, please put up an error message when one enters an invalid search term. [/ADDED]
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I haven't touched the search, Luc. It's behaving as it's always behaved. I've gone back in the SVN logs to mid 2009 and there's been no change to the way we search by member name.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'm positive it has worked for me, i.e. without a trailing asterisk, it used to look for full words, and with a trailing asterisk it looked for "starting with...". Which was fine, not perfect, but fine as I usually know how a name (or a name part) starts. In fact, you may even have pointed it out to me long ago, not sure here. I do recall having a similar conversation earlier, when I was looking for Dave K's correct name, however I can't find it right now 
Since it doesn't do "trailing asterisk means starts with..." now, if you haven't changed it, then SQL Server has changed or I'm all wrong? I find that very strange.
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We have upgraded from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 and then to 2008 R2. A change like this would be a major breaking change so I doubt it would be that.
The main point is that I understand the current system is suboptimal and we are currently working on fixing it.
You're one of our KPIs 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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