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Often articles in the needing approval queue have very poor o no explanation at all, their content is merely the attached code (the latter maybe actually interesting).
I think the authors are missing the target and I wonder what is the best way to let them know about.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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If you type a message at the bottom the author usually reads them and may/may not comment.
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You're right, of course. Anyway, since it happens so often and, IMHO, is against article guidelines I was looking for a more general approach.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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Personally for the users who basically use an "article" for a "test" or can't be bothered to fix the template sections the general approach should be to hunt them down and kick them where it hurts. But that's just me. 
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I know you're draconian. 
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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The worst offenders may be reported as substandard.
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The articles I mentioned are actually substandard (poor or no explanation), but maybe the code is indeed very interesting. What I mean we need a way to let the authors know they're making own goal.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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I feel that in Events and Get-To-Gether forums there must be certain special extensions.
1) Till the date of the event, a full length discussion can be allowed.
2) After the event date, the following can be adopted:
(a) Lock the thread from further debating.
(b) Post the announcement [reply] thread in the context indicating that the event is complete with an optionally available URL from a weblog or the event organizer update.
Wouldn't this make the event forum more comprehensive collection of events?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare
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We'll add this to the wish list
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thank you. That would really enhance and extend the 'Get-To-Gether' forum as a quick lookup even after that particular event.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare
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Let's say you are viewing an article that has many messages that span on multiple pages. If you wish to view messages on second page you click on '2'. After that the whole page is reloaded including the article and messages from second page appear. I think it would be better if the article didn't get reloaded and only messages changed. It would make loading messages on other pages quicker.
Giorgi Dalakishvili
#region signature
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This is exactly how we used to have it but then the prevailing wisdom at the time was that it meant discussions were being shown without the context of the article in question so we removed that feature.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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How about just loading the forum itself in an IFRAME and refreshing that...?
(or, i suppose, some sort of new-fangled AJAX trickery)
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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I am glad to see the jobs board back and wanted to give you some feedback. First, I think $299 is too expensive for what is essentially a new, unproven service. For the next six months, I suggest you offer the first posting free. Second, for the first year of this service, I suggest $199/mo. for the first month, with subsequent months at half price.
I'm sure you're pitching the premium pool of developers here at CP, but your competition is still craigslist.
modified on Sunday, June 8, 2008 1:34 PM
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You can pay for a job post using your coupons.
Giorgi Dalakishvili
#region signature
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Hmm, I have to disagree. $299 is peanuts considering the cost of sourcing potential candidates, interviewing them, hiring them and then training them. I wouldn't think twice about spending that amount for a job posting here. Heck, last time I hired people I spent more than double that just to place adverts in the paper. The hook, for me, would be direct exposure to a targeted talent pool. A second hook (first posting free) doesn't do anything IMO to make the service more attractive. The big risk of offering freebies is that anyone, including joe-blow and his buddy who might want to start some development thing can use it to test the waters and waste everyones time not to mention polluting the list for serious job advertisers.
Cheers,
Drew.
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Josh is back as Chief Master C#. I know Maunder is already aware of it (based on posts in SB). Just a warning to all if his account has not been disabled yet.
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What's the point in banning him anyway? He'll just create new acounts on and on. Just leave him alone and eventually he'll get bored with it.
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Hi Chris,
Not sure if you are still interested in adjusting the voting system to remove "spurious" votes. I had sent you a simple little algorithm that could adjust for the outliers and wonder if you received it? I think my email/post got lost in the shuffle.
If not I can always resend, or if you're not interested I'll just leave it.
Cheers.
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I am interested but didn't get your email. Could you resend please?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The "email" link - it simply does not work. I've faced this issue several times. 
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Yes it does. If:
a) You're sending to a member who has a confirmed email address
b) there are no issues with actually getting an email past whatever filters and blocks are between us and you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I just clicked on the email link on my own message and sent a test email. I never received it. There are no filters to stop, I am using Yahoo mail, I checked the spam folder as well (I've given the thing enough time to reach me as well, but to no luck).
It is just not me, there are other members who have faced this issue and this has been discussed once in a while on different places of the site. I've been appreciating the good things, but I'll need to tell you the bad things as well. Trust me, the email thing doesn't work! It may work with your account, but I guess there are a few more million accounts around that you need to get it work with.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Try sending an email to me
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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