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.dan.g. wrote: Could have been just teething problems
That's kind of you to say that 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: That's kind of you to say that
You're welcome!
ps. I'm beginning to think that Chrome might be the culprit.
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50 - 60% of Questions asked in the forum is
- incomplete
- developers asking for the code from scratch
- dont know the basics of what they are doing
- bad grammar or english which makes impossible
to understand the question
- Sometime ask them to do their homework
- ask about project ideas
What can we do to improve teh quality of questions asked in the forum?
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Ashraff Ali Wahab wrote: What can we do to improve teh quality of questions asked in the forum
Two very simple options
1. Report, without compromise or prejudice, those questions that are not answerable questions to specific issues, and/or
2. Edit the questions to make them suitable for answering.
The report system and edit system are there. Please, please use them. Let's stop encouraging members to post stuff that's unsuitable
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My intention is not to stop them, but to encourage them that their question will be definitely answered or a solution will be provided.
I like the article posting wizard where we end up creating better article,but I cant think of some way or format a question should be posted so that is mostly accurate. That's the reason I started a thread on it. So other members or moderators can come up with some easy way to post a complete question.
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Hi Ashraff,
Over the last year (and before) there have been many posts here on this forum addressing the issue(s)/question(s) you raise, many suggestions, many ideas (several from this person).
I do wonder if you are referring to Q&A questions in your comments here, since I think many Forums, such as the C# Forum, are much more reactive, immediately, to the kinds of gimme-incomplete, and unanswerable-as-is, questions you describe.
If you respond enough on Q&A, you'll probably, without intending to, get familiar with certain "repeat offenders," and, depending on your rep level you can edit, or even delete, their questions ('deleting' is something I personally just can't bring myself to do).
In any case, whatever your rep level. You can add simple comments, specially if you sense the person is a newcomer, perhaps not a native English-speaker, etc. And, you can report the question, if it's abusive, etc.
You can ask the poster to tag his question: to post specific small excerpts of code that illustrate their specific problem, etc.
Or, you can tell them flat-out their question is inappropriate, can't be answered as is, or, suggest they search CP or Google for specific topics you think are relevant to what you guess they are trying to achieve, or dealing with.
The number of questions on Q&A dealing with C# and WinForms, that could be easily answered by a quick search of CP, continues to amaze me !
There's nothing wrong with telling a poster that their question reveals such a fundamental lack of understanding of whatever (C#, ASP.NET, WPF, etc.) that they really need to get a good book and go over the fundamentals.
I think this can be done in a way that doesn't seem like a put-down: I focus on C# WinForms questions, because: that's what I know best; and, I often will recommend a specific book depending on what the user is asking, in this type of case.
best, Bill
"Takuan Sōhō died in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in December of 1645. At the moment before his death, Takuan painted the Chinese character 'meng' ("dream"), laid down his brush and died."
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Thanks Bill. You are correct ,it is regarding Q&A sections. Yes I always comment/ask a question if the question is not accurate.
But while posting a question can we have some kind of wizard type which asks the user about the problem area, programming language, code snippet to guide them.
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We could try wiring QA questioners up to the mains, and provide a "shock" button to push every time we read a dumb question?
But the fact is that there are a lot of lazy, idle, and stupid people out there who would rather we did their work for them. We can't stop them, but we can discourage them by telling them why their question is not answerable.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Ashraff Ali Wahab wrote: What can we do to improve teh quality of questions asked in the forum?
Use a spell checker? 
/ravi
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Yep thats good.I got it,will do next time.I am asking not from individual responsiblity from the forum moderation/redaction perspective.
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I was just pulling your leg. 
/ravi
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Vertical spacing of 'Articles needing approval' looks as per the rest of the website css but 'Tips needing approval' vertical spacing is missing and the bullet points are closely placed.
I know, a small thing, just thought of sharing as I noticed it couple of times.
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Good catch. Fixed in next rev.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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And the color change for the visited link (in case of 'Article for approval' - it is missing), can we have it back?
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Patience, grasshopper
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When posting a message, I see this at the top:
Forum for article:A Coder Interview With Marc Clifton (View)
Author [tab] The Code Project, Marc Clifton
Please add a space after the colon and add a colon after Author.
Also, you added the rating option during commenting, which is great. However, please move it to the left so that it is easily accessible and noticeable each time.
Copied from top of posting message:
Forum for Forum:Site Bugs / Suggestions (View)
Space needed as well.
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Spacing corrected.
The voting while replying is probably 4 years old
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: The voting while replying is probably 4 years old
Oh, come on! All the more reason to move it. Unless of course you can cause the whole page to slide left and right every five minutes so we don't have to turn our necks.
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hmm - now there's an idea!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Just remember, Arabic goes right → left and Japanese goes up → down.
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Time to call the Starship troopers! 
Sorry couldn't resist...
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Good B movie. Here's to co-ed showers in the future.
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"I only have one rule. Everyone fights. No one quits."
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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It isn't uniform. If I change the layout option from the drop down, orange-ish text background goes away.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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