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The OP *is* the king on his questions. You guys are trying to tie things up in a neat little artificial package, and it's not that neat.
There are plenty of vehicles available on a quick-answer question where people who "know better" can chime in, via comments or actual "answers". When I go looking for an answer to a question, I invariably land on StackOverflow and/or an MSDN forum. Usually, there are responses marked as "the answer" but I ALWAYS make it a practice to read the entire thread to see if varying opinions have been offered that are more appropriate to MY question. Why? Because the "accepted answer" for the OP may NOT be an acceptable answer for *me*.
To address your point 5, if the user doesn't see it, it's because he doesn't care. He got the answer that worked for him, and he's moved on. I think a single email after N days asking him to go back and a) review the replies, and b) mark one accepted if he finds one worthy of the tag is sufficient. In the meantime, other users can vote on the answers, at least presenting the idea to a 3rd party that this is is the answer that OTHER USERS would accept.
The way you guys are approaching this smacks just a little too much of big brotherism. Let the OP make the call. It's his call - and ONLY his call - to make.
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If a question is 15 days old it's usually out of sight, out of mind. If someone else finds it by searching then often their question will be slightly different than the original so having "the" answer is less valuable than having many potentials that may fit his circumstances better.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If a question is 15 days old it's usually out of sight, out of mind. If someone else finds it by searching then often their question will be slightly different than the original so having "the" answer is less valuable than having many potentials that may fit his circumstances better.
I am not so sure. This approach formally approves question duplication which dilutes the forum content. What's the point of having 5 separate threads all of them asking how a char* can be marshaled from C++ to C# ?
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Unless a feature is implemented that provides the user with a list of questions already asked that might be similar (like the MSDN forums do), there's no earthly way you can prevent duplicate questions. Putting effort into something you can't fix is both a waste of time on your part and annoying to the users.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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We already do this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: We already do this.
Do what? Annoy the users? 
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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If you were closer and unarmed I would slap you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: This approach formally approves question duplication which dilutes the forum content
Not quite Nish
Nothing is being "formally approved". We are allowing duplicate posts, but not formally endorsing them. All systems such as ours do this, and the only alternative is to say that if there is a post that is exactly your post (or similar, since "exact" will rarely, if ever, happen) the disallow posting the duplicate.
Which is actually what we already do - at least in the case of an exact repost.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Kristian,
The idea was proposed here few days back and I think the team is already working on it.
But I am not very much satisfied with the idea because most of the answers (including good answers) are not voted in the Q&A forum. Choose any member who gives a lot of answer in the Q&A forum. Better choose an MVP so it can be assumed that most of his answers are good. Now check his answers and also check the views for that particular post. You will find that even there are lot of views, number of votes would be 1 or 2 or as in most cases NO Votes.
I liked the MSDN style of Propose as Answer.
We can have a similar system. But that again is similar to the present vote system. If one could propose an answer one could also vote.
Let's everyone put up our suggestions here and help CP come up with the best solution.
I am also thinking of a better idea and if something strikes my mind I will surely put up here. 
..Go Green..
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I'm getting lots of grey blocks containing the message above; they appear to be in areas normally displaying ads. Also, I'm seeing a number of HTML fragments displayed in various parts of the site. If it's any help, I'm using Opera tonight, but I was seeing similar anomalies at work today using Chrome. I've all but given up on IE now - it's hopeless...
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I just checked the grey bits in the footer using the Inspect Element function in Opera (Microsoft hasn't a clue...). The code is a link to admt, and it's using inline HTML style information in the DIV, rather than style tags required under the new standards. Maybe it is an Opera/Chrome thing, since they're both largely compliant with current standards, and IE ignores them completely.
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Yet another quirk I've noticed tonight...
When I post to the Questions & Answers section, my preview looks right, but the final post includes a bunch of escape characters (\) in front of the special characters I actually typed. Weird...
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"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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have you tried a few CTRL/F5? There has been a little earthquake, and your system may vaguely remember style parts from earlier.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: have you tried a few CTRL/F5?
Yup, that was my first thought.
Luc Pattyn wrote: There has been a little earthquake
Gee, that tiny little earthquake shouldn't have affected the CodeProject servers... 
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Is this still happening?
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The appearance of HTML fragments in ad spaces has stopped, and most of the grey blocks have gone away, but as of now, the greyed out block with the "lack of style" message persists in the footer of the page.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Hi to all the CodeProject Team members who gave their efforts to redesign the CodeProject site. I found it very interesting when I first visited it today morning. First I was confused but then I got it. Here are some of my points/issues that I noticed on the new design:
- The Question & Answers menu is too long to see the last items
- Hovering on the small icon on top of Article section opens up all the menus which is pretty big and all the menus are not visible.
- In Article page, the "Browse Code" should not be visible if I don't have some code files attached to it.
- XAML files are not opening in the "Browse Code" page.
- Didn't find any difference between the Fluid layout and the Fixed layout yet.
- There should be one Voting button near to the Voting Meter. This will be more visible to the reader.
- The comments section is not rendering properly in Google Chrome. I need to Scroll Up & Down to make it render.
Overall the look is great and user friendly except those issues I covered above. I will modify this list once I got more issues over the day.
Thank you CodeProject team. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Don't forget to Click on [Vote] and [Good Answer] on the posts that helped you.
Regards - Kunal Chowdhury | Software Developer | Chennai | India | My Blog | My Tweets | Silverlight Tutorial
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- Hovering on the small icon on top of Article section opens up all the menus which is pretty big and all the menus are not visible.
I've tweaked this a little but I'm still not too happy with the result. Suggestions welcome
- In Article page, the "Browse Code" should not be visible if I don't have some code files attached to it.
I'm going to leave this as-is for the moment until I've finished the project that hooks up downloads and articles in a more formal manner.
- XAML files are not opening in the "Browse Code" page.
Fixed.
- Didn't find any difference between the Fluid layout and the Fixed layout yet.
Try now
- There should be one Voting button near to the Voting Meter. This will be more visible to the reader.
Voting is deliberately at the bottom of the article (and always has been). However, you can now add a comment directly through the voting system for any vote (not just 1 and 2)
- The comments section is not rendering properly in Google Chrome. I need to Scroll Up & Down to make it render.
Fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for fixing those issues which I reported.
Regarding the menus (either small icon or the Q/A), I am not feeling good as those are cropping in my 15.4 inch wide monitor. Probably you can try implementing the sub menus which will be more user friendly.
Don't forget to Click on [Vote] and [Good Answer] on the posts that helped you.
Regards - Kunal Chowdhury | Software Developer | Chennai | India | My Blog | My Tweets | Silverlight Tutorial
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I can organise the forums into fly-outs, but how would you like to see them organised? Some removed? A "more..." button? Something else?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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No offense but the previous articles' layout was much better, that was unique, full screen width and detailed. The header was nice, the menu on left and complete width to the right of screen. Now its very uncomfortable to view or read the article. 
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At the top right, just below the ad banner, is an icon which will give you full screen viewing.
The items in the left menu are now in the top nav bar. Play around a little with it and you'll see everything that was in the left-hand bar.
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've already tested those fluid and fixed width buttons, nothing make difference. Maybe they dont work in opera 
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Chris Maunder wrote: The items in the left menu are now in the top nav bar
no ? Desktop Development, Web Development... I dont see 'em.
got it, its before site map
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Articles -> Chapters and Sections.
Or, within any article, hover over the signpost at the left of the breadcrumb trail.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Articles -> Chapters and Sections.
OoO I like that loading style
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