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Off-topic Oakman, but you are nearing 20K 
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Off-topic Oakman, but you are nearing 20K
Off hand, I'll bet that most folks who shoot their mouth off a lot work at home, like I do (or don't work, like CSS  )
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Looking at the linked Q in the post below I realised there is no way to 'report' a question, only answers.
Is this by design?
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There's a 'Report' link under the Tools section which allows you to do that.
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Somehow I missed that - thanks 
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me too!
It should be next to the Improve Question button to keep the design consistent with the layout for the answers, e.g. report next to the improve.
Think the tools are just a way out to the right, they would maybe sit better in a horizontal line, across the top of the box that contains the Posted, Edited and revision information.
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You have a point. I'll bring it up with the team!
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| Thanks! cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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| Posts are shown with a vote rating to 2 decimal places; but the ajax update after you vote only shows to one. 3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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| Fixed next update. Thanks Dan. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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After seeing the below question, it's quite confusing about who marks the answer as accepted and what is a criteria for it. Can someone clarify it?
I just found this Question[^]. 4 Answers were accepted and 3 from the same user!
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The author of the question is supposed to (and the only one that has rights to) mark an answer as accepted. I thought this was simple and intuitive but it looks like it's actually causing some confusion. We're going to change this, in the not to distant future, such that answers with an average rating over 4.5 are marked as accepted automatically. Hope that helps!
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if the author of the question doesn't do anything, then you can't rightfully mark an answer as "accepted". All you can do automatically is mark it "probably good enough".
And what will happen to the rep FAQ which currently says "A member receives points for having their answer marked accepted by the author of a question."???
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Yep we'll adjust the wording so it doesn't read 'Accepted Answer' because, like you said, we can't rightfully mark it accepted on the authors behalf.
Luc Pattyn wrote: And what will happen to the rep FAQ which currently says "A member receives points for having their answer marked accepted by the author of a question."
That reputation event will be removed.
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yeah, let's just ban the word "accepted", it has been confusing from day 1.
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I have doubts with this one too... i had seen lots of right answer ... even 'Accepted as answer' marked vote 1! Not fair! is it?
Thus if we have anything like automatic marking for posts above 4.5 or so, it would ignore quite few posts that should be considered!
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: i had seen lots of right answer ... even 'Accepted as answer' marked vote 1!
I wouldn't say it's merely a matter of an answer being "right". It has to be correct and a completely acceptable solution. This new approach will address the problem we've had with accepted answers having low votes.
Sandeep Mewara wrote: Thus if we have anything like automatic marking for posts above 4.5 or so, it would ignore quite few posts that should be considered!
Well it's really up to the community (especially the question author) to go through the answers and vote..
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: 4 Answers were accepted and 3 from the same user!
I am that user. 
I too noticed that and thought it was strange, especially since apparently none of those answers answered the question. I think there is some confusion over what it means to accept an answer. There has been some discussion over this though, and I think they're working on changing the wording.
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In the forum's, when you have some text selected and you paste in a link, the text selected goes between the anchor tags.
In QA, the selected text is replaced by the URL and selected ready to overtype instead of being retained.
The behaviour in the forums is much better IMO.
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Fully agree, I kept getting annoyed by this, but then was too lazy to report it.
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| Added as a bug. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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If I want to print an article, it would be nice to have a print-friendly version.
The vertical bar down the left side of the page wastes way too much toner!
EDIT: Just noticed the "Print" link above the article!
Let me change my suggestion to: It would be nice if the print-friendly version were more readily apparent!
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Suggestions where we should put it?
(I *just* had a meeting with a graphic designer and we discussed this very thing)cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Maybe put it in various places users are expecting it, rather than in a single place? Here are some options:
- Where it currently is.
- Top right of webpage (next to settings and such).
- At the bottom of the article (near the License and About the Author sections).
- At the bottom of the page (with the copyright info and such).
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