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Yes, right! But even after translating to english, I do not think that it makes a quality article.
Manas Bhardwaj
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What a well timed post.
Sean and I have been talking about a new system to handle exactly this type of thing. There's not enough editors to handle the workload, so we're going to tackle this issue in two ways
1. The editors will focus on all new articles and ensure they either meet a minimum bar or are pushed back to 'composing' status to have the author rework it
2. We enlist help from you guys to help us identify and correct formatting and grammar issues such as this. English isn't everyone's first language (C++ is, though, right??) so the most important thing for me is that the community help make an article better as opposed to making an author feel dumb.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Good to hear that you are thinking about this.
Do you really think C++ is everyone's first language? I thought it was C# 
I have another suggestion. I notice that most of the articles are not really good enough for articles but Tips. And when pointed out, Author starting asking how to convert an Article to Tip. As far as I know, there isn't any option to do it yourself (apart from sending mail to Sean).
Why not include an option, for e.g. : 'Switch to ->' Arctile | Tip | Whatever...
Manas Bhardwaj
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There is definitely the ability to convert articles to tips (and vice versa), except if the article is an alternative to an existing article. In this case the alternative article must be of the same type.
Tips are meant to be very small, very quick tips. Short articles are fine, so we need to be careful we don't pollute tips with small articles.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: There is definitely the ability to convert articles to tips (and vice versa)
May be a new queue where all such articles that get 5 votes for 'Wrong Type' are pushed and users with power can convert it into other type and push back again into approval queue?
Chris Maunder wrote: Short articles are fine, so we need to be careful we don't pollute tips with small articles.
BTW, where does this fit: Server side Delimiters in ASP.NET[^]?
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That's an article. A reference article.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks. I too thought so. Converted.
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Up until fairly recently, only CPians above a certain reputation level were allowed to vote on new articles, but it now seems that anyone can do so. I suspect this often means the use of friends and/or sock puppets to get sub-standard or incomplete articles published.
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When I signed on as an editor, one of the restrictions asked was that we didn't touch new articles (articles less than three months old). Perhaps if this restriction were lifted, we'd help tackle the backlog.
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On the main page under Cast your vote, for some reason the first in the list is "Best ASP.NET article of April 2011".
I took a look at them and they look like good articles, but they are not from last month
Soren Madsen
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You run a monthly article competition, you give it rules like "appear on these dates in 2011 and only 2011," you dig a hole in the ground when it's finished it's life, you bury it, and somehow (against all logic) it rises up and walks again.
Why won't monthly article competitions stay buried?
(I've fixed the problem - thank you kindly for the report)
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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No problem.
When it was still open, I was looking at it and wondered if it was possible to cast a vote - in the end I must admit I just could not help myself. Sorry if you now have to go back and declare a new winner  (actually, my vote went to the article that won).
Soren Madsen
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- server logged me out...
- page back to fixed...
- question tag filters auto filled!
5-10 minutes from now.
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Yeah, I'm having problems too. It reverted to 10 messages per page instead of my custom 50. Doesn't want to change back. 
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I just had that. I'm back to 50 now. This is the second time in a couple of days for me.
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To add more info, I got an invalid viewstate error, and the forums disappeared entirely for a minute or so (page loaded, but the main content area was empty). And I lost a message I was posting to the abyss.
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Same here. The odds are 50 to 10 that it works this way.
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A bit of a server issues.
Should be good now
Sincerely,
Elina Blank
Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it! 
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It is. However, after downloading the demo project of this article[^] just now, the browser automatically closed this page's tab. I've had this problem only in the past week or so and only twice before.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: the browser automatically closed this page's tab
After downloading the tab closed? That's very, very weird. We don't have any code to close a window, and if we did the browser should pop up with a message "The page you are on is trying to close the window".
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yep. It's happened just a couple of times before. Very annoying. The weird thing is, the closed tab does not appear in the Reopen Closed Tab list. So I think it's a browser issue. I've only experienced it at CP when I'm downloading, but this is one of the few sites that I download from at work.
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Thanks everything working fine now.
Strange though, I did not received an email of this reply that you gave me here. (I see, I am getting emails for the comments in Q&A though.)
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1. It is annoying.
2. When in an article, you read the comments (and so the title change), then email the page (via browser), the message title get's chosen as the email subject, which could be anything (aka 'My vote of 2').
I think we can all agree that this is a terrible design mistake (j/k )
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I'll think about it. I personally find it very helpful.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I agree that it is helpful.
But it gets a bit hard when you have 3 or more tabs open on CP all pointing to a message and you having to guess which one was the Lounge again.
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