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Chris and I have been talking about Tips and Tricks posts. Over the years there have been number of issues with the classifications of tips:
- The line where you draw the distinction between an article and a tip is somewhat nebulous
- New authors coming in to share content being held at the door and lectured on the difference between an article and a tip before they're let in
- The time moderators spend on educating new authors on this distinction
- The sad feeling new authors get in their hearts when they think they've written an article and are told "no you haven't"
I think over the years this idea that a tip is, "anything that is unworthy of being an article," or, "a tip is anything that is too short to be an article" has developed, but that's not what we had in mind.
So we're going to clarify what a tip is: A Tips and Tricks post is a single problem, with a single solution, and a super-short write-up. Ideally you could consume it in under 30 seconds. Here is an example of a tip:
Kendo UI NumericTextBox Enable/Disable Issue[^]
I realize this goes against the understanding of many (and I believe everyone has a slightly different line). I also realize that the majority of existing tips are actually articles under this clarification. We'll be doing a reclassification at some point of all existing tips to help make the distinction between what WAS a tip and what IS NOW a tip a little easier to follow moving forward.
I will be in the trenches of the articles needing approval queue to help transition this new definition to new content as smoothly as possible and I'm happy to help answer the case-by-case post question we get as we forge this new distinctive line together. Thank you.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I would make this message sticky for a while. So it doesn't get relegated to other pages.
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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Hmmm ... that's a good idea and I should have done it, but to do it now I have to delete this thread, repost it, then go around to where it's been shared and edit all those posts. Maybe unsticky will be OK.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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hehehe ok
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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How about adding the details to the sticky message at the top?
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If it becomes problematic I will delete the thread and repost it, but I've updated the FAQ and we're updating the submit page so at least the clarification is something we can get at pretty easily:
Code Project Article FAQ[^]
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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All you need now is for all of us to read it carefully.
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Lily Alvin - Professional Profile - CodeProject[^]
No obvious spam posted yet, although I can't see the message that's in the moderation queue. But of the two messages posted, one is a reply to a message from September 2014.
The profile itself looks very suspicious to me.
Worth keeping an eye on, or am I just being paranoid? 
EDIT: Looks like we're going with "site-driving spam" on this one: Site driving Spammer - CodeProject[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 2-Feb-16 9:14am.
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Any thoughts on this?
I place Donate button in the site and project. If you like Cool Access Control. I hope you can donate us. Your donation will encourage us to continue development and keep the testing site serve. Thanks. After donation, send email to me and I will help you to remove the button.
It makes the code sound like shareware to me, which would be against the terms of service.
"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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We don't allow donation requests. I've removed the text.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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If the download still contains the button... it brings nothing to remove the text.
Have you spoken with him?
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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Yup! Hopefully he cooperates.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Guys
An user raised a question and then said that the user resolved it himself.
How do I close the question? how do we do it usually?
thanks
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User is expected to answer his own question on how issue got resolved and accept that answer.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=190356&aid=1054411[^]
This strikes me as a handy tool and the author includes some source code but almost no explanation of how they approached/wrote/solved problems with the code. It is just presented as, "Here is some code, it works where I have tested it." Should it be allowed through to be an article or should they be encouraged just to put it up as a tool?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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This member[^] joined today, and has posted the same job advert in QA and the Managed C++/CLI forum.
Is this allowed? It smells like spam to me.
"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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Coverting a unicode string to plain text[^]
Is it normal or abuse to have inquirer to post an answer to its own question and accepting its own answer ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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If there's no pattern for doing it several times, I wouldn't call it abuse.
Instead since the OP seemed to find a solution 3 hours after posting the question, I feel it is a good thing that the answer is posted in case someone else has a similar problem.
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Is it OK give a solution which suggest to use debugger and/or profiler ?
Sometimes, requester obviously don't understand what its own code is doing ?
checking given number is prime or not[^]
Or should I expect to be donwvoted every time ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
modified 4-Aug-15 19:52pm.
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ppolymorphe wrote: Or should I expect to be donwvoted every time ?
You might expect it or not... the question is: does it affect you?
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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I might be more prone to add that kind of thing as a comment rather than posting it as a solution.
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How to report questions that are obviously home work when requester simply want someone to do its home work ?
Abusive ? Not a question ?
Some times it is obvious that the biggest effort of requester was to write the question itself.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Not a question.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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