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It's a good idea. Unfortunately many members asking questions don't get it. Often they just repeat their question or error message there (e.g. I m getting an error of assembly[^]).
Maybe a bit more verbose heading instead of "What have you tried" will improve the chances of they either providing an actual explanation of what they have tried or reconsidering to post their question before they actually have tried anything?
Like: "Explain in detail, including code (if applicable), what you have tried yourself so far to resolve this problem:" ...?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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But as we all know, users don't read messages.
If they can't read or understand the current heading, are they likely to read and understand a more verbose heading?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't know - but as it would cost only a few minutes to change the heading I think it's worth a try
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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If a person can't spend the time to phrase their question sensibly - and we make it painfully clear and easy to do - then the question should be removed.
If someone makes an effort but gets messed up because of language or phrasing that's fine. But if they can't even spend a few seconds making it possible for someone to answer their question then we need to move on.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
Just look at several questions, which took the most space today. It looks like the same person creates a new account for a new "question".
The common characteristics are: the same section "What I have tried" does not show anything the inquirer could try. Also, it's no effort, pointless question, no explanation of any problem, and so on. But closely following the same form and very similar phrasing tells the tail. Unfortunately, those apparently fake questions still provoked some of the experts into trying to answer seriously. We always had enough rubbish here, but I never saw the same number of so similar posts which are not formally the spam…
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Paradoxically, it could be the effect of adding the field "What I have tried" to the question form. The impression is that people aim to abuse this section as much as possible. It's psychologically explainable: this field irritates many so much that they try to fill it with any rubbish as soon as possible. But it creates extremely irritating form of a question…
Just some thought; I really don't know what to do with it…
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 9-Feb-16 9:50am.
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Hi, I have a problem on loading website. Assets of website can not load from cachefly website in Iran probably because of government filtering.
some screenshot:
http://uploads.im/gmbJq.png
I test it on some device and result is the same.
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Yes - this is an ongoing issue. Your country blocks (or has been blocked from) certain CDNs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Same problem here.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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That makes me sad. Should be fixed now, sorry about that.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you Sean.
Not a big problem because we have a lot of time to vote.
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I am sorry.
Please advise.
The Enter key is pressed after ListView edit.
And I would like to move to a following line and column.
A method is not known.
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When I'm wondering if one of my favorite authors has published a new article that I haven't noticed on the CP start page it would be convenient to be able to sort his list of articles by date of publication.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I just approved an article and the approval-counter then displayed "1". Directly after that the article got published: SQLite CRUD operation using Entity Framework 7[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 4-Feb-16 17:21pm.
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Simultaneously, behind the scenes, I published the article. I'm sneaky like that.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Like this guy?[^]
On a side note, the game that is from is AWESOME.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The "new solution" form in QA now has an additional header: "Describe the problem".
Shouldn't that be on the new question form instead?
Screen-shot of the problem[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Last time I have seen quite often what for me could be an issue.
Reported contributions where author got nuked and the article manually deleted by a protector, are still appearing as backup "auto draft" and give the possibility to continue "work on it" and being able to resurrect the item.
If you then delete the draft, the item is definitively gone.
Is it by design? Or maybe a bug?
Anyways I would suggest:
If author "don't exist" and item reported X times (a min number of reports)... if deleted by protector = definitive deletion including draft history / buffer
What do you think?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Message Removed
modified 3-Feb-16 22:02pm.
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I love my daily newsletter. It's awesome. However, I'm still getting a weekly "Web Developer Newsletter" even though it's turned off in my profile under newsletters. The last one I received has this as the opening text, "Welcome to this week's Web Development newsletter from CodeProject." Is there another way to do this?
Thanks for the great newsletters and articles. They are interesting and start my day with a . Nice work!
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Hmmm. It looks like it's still checked in the profile? You don't happen to have two accounts, do you?
I've unchecked it in this account.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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That's strange. I guess it's possible that I have 2 accounts for the same email, but I was looking at the login name as well. Well, I appreciate you unchecking it and I'll follow up if I still get it. Thanks for the quick reply!!!
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As a backup, please forward the last version of the Web Newsletter you received to me - sean@codeproject.com. I will take a peek.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I posted a problem about a missing image in my article here :
Bugs and Suggestions - CodeProject[^]
No one ever replied. Can someone look into this? The problem is still unresolved.
Thanks for any help.
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Is it just unrio17.png? I can see it displayed when I look at the article.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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