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I'm not quite sure how the article process here works (having not written one myself), but I think it would be in the interests of sanity and the quality of the site to prevent articles this poor from getting onto the main sections of the site and into the RSS feed (where upon, I get annoyed and end up writing suggestions like this one):
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/AspNetEXButton.asp[^]
Therefore I suggest some sort of queue - which is still visible to all users of the site (this is important), but articles are not sectioned or placed on the main page until either an editor has taken a shufty at it (not necessarily edited it), or the article has been voted to some suitable score, say 2.5 (as an article might have good content or ideas, but be poorly written or explained). Articles would not count towards a users article count until they were out of the queue. Anything that consistently got voted poorly could be booted automatically after a period of time. articles that consistently got voted averagely or well could be automatically added to the main site.
The link to the queue could either be a separate tab on the main page, or a link in the sidebar.
At any rate, what I'm interested in is improving the S/N ratio or articles on the site (which is already good, but things this poor shouldn't even see light of day)
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Ian Darling
"The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
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... a Design Discussions forum, where people can discuss design decisions? People can use the General Discussions or even the Collaboration/Testing forum, but I feel that alot more people would use a forum that's specifically for it, rather than a general forum.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Jesus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
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...a poll on the forums people wish to have. Let's make a list, starting with:
Design and Architecture
WinForms
WebForms
Hardware
...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Dear Lord Maunder
Can we please have a dedicated forum for the 'Republocrat' pissing matches? It's worse than cricket!
Yours,
The Undersigned[^]
"I live very much in the real world, it's just not the same world shared by most other people"
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Good idea! You might want to make that a real poll, like the "best articles" polls.
I think all of the topics would make good forums, but especially the Design and Hardware topics.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Jesus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Hardware! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Seriously, I'd appreciate it so much 
Paul 
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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When is this poll idea going to go forward?
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When I get some more suggestions for forums in this thread.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Fix MozillaFirebird support! For two weeks now I have had no Preview button...
I am more than happy to help out with this!
The Rob Blog
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Werkin' on it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hi All,
Most of the problems i'm facing in my current project relate to winforms and i find it confusing as to which forum i should post my questions to - i'm posting my problems on either vs.net issues, c# forum or else the ado.net forum.
I think it would be more convenient to have a winforms forum covering all aspects of windows application developent using winforms.
Sunny
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How about a new control section that allows submissions with controls that match those in XP.
For example the control panel menu (the right side, not the task pane on the left), or letterbox (widescreen) mode (login screen).
I have code that duplicates both of these XP only things (I haven't submitted them yet).
Neil
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Controls such as these can go either in their relevant sections (list, edit etc) or in the 'Misc controls' section.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hi - Why don we have a ... kind of - BEST ANSWERER OF MONTH - Put his name on main page - or put kind of his interview (just for fun)... I don want this to show-off one's abilities... but I think it would be fun - and will encourage ppl to answer more.
Answering should not be number of posts excatly, attach some points-ratio gained as well as...
Being web developer, I know it will require more programming, but life could be easy if there is good DB design and code style.
Do think about it.
Good Day;
mE
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A gasp of breath,
A sudden death:
The tale begun.
A rustled page
Passes an age:
The tale is done.
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Just send me an email with the account name/email address and I can look after that for you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I think people have been asking for this feature for a long time, and I think Chris should add it as an option to the user's profile.
Allow threads to be ordered based on the datetime of the latest posts or replies.
In other words, if someone just replied to a thread and I have this feature turned on, I should now see that thread appear at the top of all the other threads. As long as this is an optional feature, it should not be a problem for people have become accustomed to the current behavior.
Thanks Chris!
Alvaro
Hey! It compiles! Ship it.
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I'm sure there is a design/architecture reason for these problems
Why do I get a notification email when I post something to my own message board?
Why does it say 'Personal Page for Member 11599' rather than 'Personal Page for Michael P Butler"
Just curious
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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Because you're not a name, Prisoner 11599...
Shog9
nightdrivin'withoutheadlights...
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Because not everyone has entered their name, and because people continually change their name and I was lazy when I wrote the tie-in code that links profiles with messages. My dirty secret is out 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Greets all,
I was just going thru articles and realised that I had no way of know - due to my bad memory at times - if I had bookmarked an article before or not. I was thinking that it would be nice if we could have a small icon in the header section that indicates whether or not this article is in the members bookmark collection.
Would this be an easy thing to do Admins?
.:. Keno .:.
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Why is it that if I want to print one of the many great articles on CodeProject, I always have to first switch to the print view, and then actually print the page??
If I click on the "Print Version" for an article, it's only because I want to print it - why can't CodeProject start the printing right away? That'd be the way I expect it to work (like on many other sites, e.g. MSDN and others).
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Marc Scheuner, Bern, Switzerland
m.scheuner - at - inova.ch
May The Source Be With You!
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I'll have to disagree. If I click printer friendly, it's because I want to read the page without the adverts and menus and stuff, and *then* print it if I want to. MSDN does this wrong IMO, and it drives me nuts.
The other reason is that if you click it by accident, you want to be able to push stop or back in the browser, instead of waiting for the print dialog to pop-up and click cancel.
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Ian Darling
"The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
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I hate that. The print dlg shouldn't appear until i hit the "print" toolbar button.
Now, if Chris wanted to do a "print media" CSS for CP...
Shog9
nightdrivin'withoutheadlights...
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I usually want my clicketies to look like this[^] i.e. plain text appears in the post, not the URL.
So instead of having to clickety the text and then go back and manually edit the URL, have a clickety button that asked me what URL I wanted to use and wrapped the selected text with the appropriate <A> tags.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^]
Awasu 1.1.2 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
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