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I have just edited a Q in Q&A and on posting got the error message above.
I therefore had to add something to the OPs subject in order to get it accepted.
This seems a bit arbitrary.
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.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Did you mean ????????????????????????????????? ?
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.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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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
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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It used to be 15-150 but I increased it.
Is it truly possible for the average user to ask a sensibly titled question in under 30 characters? Is it that difficult to think for 5 seconds and clarify your question to make up 30 characters?
Anything that makes people stop and think about their question is good in my books. Frankly I'm fed up with people not bothering to even try and ask a sensible question, let alone searching CodeProject or Google first. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Fairy snuff.
In that particular case I thought the original subject was OK, though.
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.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I agree with the minimum - 30 is about right - but perhaps the max is too long? 150 chars is a lot of words: more than some put into the whole question!
It isn't meant to be the whole question, just enough of a "taster" that you can tell if you know about the subject before you open it. Plus shorter subject equals better looking summary page - just a thought.
How about 30-80 characters?
Oh, and can we have the age of the question back, for unanswered questions? 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
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I think you need to tighten it up a little, say... 30 to 31 characters. 
BTW, this also affected the Tips/Tricks. I went to edit one I posted yesterday, and it wouldn't let me post the edit until I INCREASED the length of the title by at least five characters.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Now I know the reason why people put extra question marks and quotation marks in their posts.
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There is a designer I work with who would like to know what you use to colorize code with PRE tags. Is it something that's easily pluggable, or did you make it yourself? Basically, we have an ASP.Net site we run and he'd like to add code to the style guide he's making so developers can copy it. For example:
<span style="button">This is a Button</span>
I know there are many code colorizers out there, but the one on Code Project is the best I've seen.
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It's completely custom - specifically because none of the others out there could do what was needed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Bummer, but thanks for the quick response. I'll sick him on something else.
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Thanks, that looks fantastic! I have recommended he use that. 
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I've heard that some really nice, and when I say really nice I mean totally awfully nice guys have worked on the colorizer code that CP uses.
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Don't even get me started about some of the guys we've had helping out on that thing... 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'm not sure what you two are on about, but for the sake of my own amusement I'm going to assume one or both of you programmed it.
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I don't know how feasible this is and it seems so obvious that I guess that it must have been suggested before.
Still, that doesn't usually stop me, so:
To stop Questioners responding to comments by adding a new answer could it not be that if the member viewing a Question is the same as the originator of the question the 'Add your answer here' and the edit box be invisible/disabled in some way.
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.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Yeah, it's been suggested before. Problem is, they really do have answers to their own questions sometimes (I've answered a few of my own questions).
Though, maybe they could tweak the UI somehow to make it more obvious that they are answering their question or that they can post a comment instead.
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Well, in that case, Add an Answer can be changed to "Post the solution". This would essentially update the question itself but mark it as solved too. Also, then we should get rid of "Add an answer" to "Suggest better solution" which would give you rep points only if the OP accepts it. This may help those rep point crazy members who just post the same thing again, supposedly, to gain rep point. Just my two cents*.
*Interesting thing is, I don't really know (although I do assume an appropriate meaning of it) what it really means or what is it's origin. I just used it since I have seen people using it in similar situations.
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d@nish wrote: Post the solution
What an excellent idea. Thank you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks
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Surely nice one. But based on how the Q&A works, just a slight change, what if we have 'Propose a solution' instead of 'Post the solution'?
This way, people upvoting would actually support proposed solution and OP can accept a proposed solution. Sounds like all fits in!
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Nope. OP knows the problem. So when he posts a solution it is posting a solution. We guys on other hand propose the solution assuming OPs original problem based on the question.
So if OP proposes a solution, it moves the approving authority role from OP to us. This means, we are better off OPs problem than he himself. Which is wrong, isn't it?
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d@nish wrote: So if OP proposes a solution, it moves the approving authority role from OP to us. This means, we are better off OPs problem than he himself. Which is wrong, isn't it?
I was suggesting text as 'Propose a solution' for us and not from OP prospective, based on which I still think the text that would fit more is 'Propose a solution'. This already is suggesting OP to not post anything as a solution to the asked problem as you proposed by suggesting 'Post a solution'.
It was just my suggestion. Chris and team are the one who are going to decide on it.
Thanks.
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