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I find Code Project to be a fantastic resource for me (a dabbler) as anytime I want to write something there's typically been at least one decent article written about it.
Some articles are definitely better than others, so it would be very helpful to be able to sort the results from an article search by Rating (descending). Even an option to only return articles with a rating above a certain threshold like on this message board would be helpful in filtering out all of the 1s and 2s out there.
Is this doable? Please? 
Thanks,
Kevin
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Who told you that you cannot find a good article among the low rated ones (with ratings 1s and 2s)?
To my opinion, Rating is not always proportionate to the quality of the article..
Any other thoughts???
L.W.C. Nirosh,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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Nirosh wrote: Who told you that you cannot find a good article among the low rated ones (with ratings 1s and 2s)?
That is like saying you can't find a good meal by raking through your neighbours garbage bin. It can be done, but quite frankly, I wouldn't want the reputation.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: That is like saying you can't find a good meal by raking through your neighbours garbage bin. It can be done, but quite frankly, I wouldn't want the reputation.
Base sample is wrong..!! I guess it is not like, what you are saying.. so doesn't count, what you said there after.
L.W.C. Nirosh,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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Ummm... I have no idea what you are saying. Could you rephrase?
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"finding a good article among the low rated ones (with ratings 1s and 2s)" is *not* like "finding a good meal by raking through your neighbours garbage bin", so this conclude that your base point (i.e “finding a good meal by raking through your neighbours garbage bin”) is wrong, so because of that, what you built on top of that also wrong. So your whole reply is wrong.
Hope this is clearer..
L.W.C. Nirosh,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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I'm never wrong! 
It doesn't have to be your neigbours garbage bin - it can be anybody's.
Anyway, I'd contend that I'm still right on the grounds of value of time. My time is valuable. I know that I can find a good meal by raking through garbage bins, however it will take me a long time to do that and I'll get very messy in the process. I can also find a good article among the 1 and 2 votes but, again, it will take me a long time to do that. Time I could have spend better reading the highly rated articles instead. And instead of raking through my neighbours garbage bin I could just have gone to that nice restaurant down the street.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I'm never wrong!
I am sure YOU ARE NOT.
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: It doesn't have to be your neigbours garbage bin - it can be anybody's.
OK, lol
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I know that I can find a good meal by raking through garbage bins, however it will take me a long time to do that and I'll get very messy in the process.
Here you go.. You know Colin, I just had a look at your profile, and also scrolled down to see what that long messages are all about..
I never ever found or find or expected to find a good meal in anybody's garbage bin. But I think you have and that is why I get all these comments/ advice about garbage bins and good meal, I can imagine how bad that experience would be.., but Colin, I guess you are heading the correct direction. Yes eat from good restaurants and stop eating from garbage bins that indeed drop your weight down.. (Please take this as a joke, I am not intend to harm you in any manner) Just try it since I say 
But I had/ have found gems in low rated articles.. and have seen bad articles, with some unbelievable misatkes.. among high rated articles..
L.W.C. Nirosh,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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Nirosh wrote: Please take this as a joke, I am not intend to harm you in any manner
Don't worry - My comments were a bit of a joke also. Not everyone understands my odd sense of humour.
Nirosh wrote: But I had/ have found gems in low rated articles
I don't doubt you can occasionally find a diamond in the rough.
Nirosh wrote: and have seen bad articles, with some unbelievable misatkes.. among high rated articles..
That can happen also - but usually the voting system is such that those articles will sink to the bottom evenually.
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I don't believe I said you cannot find a good article among the low rated ones.
The purpose of a search facility is to help users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible. My premise is that higher rated articles are, on the whole, more useful than lower rated articles. You also believe this to some degree when you say "Rating is not always proportionate to the quality of the article."
If my goal was to read all of the articles for a specific result set in the hope of finding the best article for me, then not filtering on rating may make sense. However, since I'm simply looking for the first article that suits my needs, it stands to reason that looking at the higher rated articles first will get me to that article that suits my needs much faster.
Thanks,
Kevin
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yeap, I agree..
If I remeber it correctly, the feature you are looking for was there some time back,
now it is not..
L.W.C. Nirosh,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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But after spending a day in C++/MFC, C#, C++/CLI, Web Development forums I realized only 100 of our 3.5 million users would use it so ..... never mind. [end-rant] ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
led mike
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What's to design? Just put everything on your button.Click event and you're all set!
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Mackster211 wrote: put everything on your button.Click event
What a PERFECT design. 
led mike
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I thought so!  Before we get arrested by the sarcasm police...
It has been suggested in other postings that the criteria for getting a new forum is based on the number of postings. I'll go one further and suggest it's also based on the number of replies and discussion to those postings.
Since I'm a self-professed dabler, I'll take a stab at asking a coherent design question (one that I'm actually looking for an answer for). Now, if only I can decide where to post it...
Cheers,
Kevin
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I always reply to design questions when I see them. They are very rare however. Almost as rare as the bunny-o-death in the "The Search for the Holy Grail" - Monty Python
Ususally someone posts a question like "how do I get access to controls in another form" or some such garbage and I provide a link to Wikipedia MVC page. But some other hacker replies with having a variable of the "other" form or some such garbage and it's off to the "Technical Debt" races at that point.
</rant>
led mike
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its silly to list all the replies directly under each topic in the forums. major space waster
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Instead, we should... list them elsewhere? Like, embedded in random articles? Or, on another site altogether?
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- C hris L osinger, Online Poker Players?
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Oh yes! A treasure hunt across the internet to find replies to a particular post. With a prize for finding the most per week.
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Shog9 wrote: we should... list them elsewhere? Like, embedded in random articles? Or, on another site altogether?
hmm that doesnt seem like a very good idea to me. instead, maybe have something like this...
thread one - some topic
thread two - some other topic
thread three - another topic
one after the other. clicking on them will load a new page or pop open a new tab. whatever.
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We have that. At the top of each forum, there's a little combo box labeled "view". Open it and select "Thread View", then click the Set Options button.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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The set your format options to "Thread View"
Personally, I like the way the forums work by default - Much better than anywhere else I've seen.
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xalspaero wrote: major space waster
I served under him in the war you know. Later on he got married and named one of his kids, time. Do you know him?
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
Nobody likes jerks. [espeir]
The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson]
I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]
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Now, THAT'S FUNNY. ROFLMAO!!!
John P.
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