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Pete O`Hanlon wrote: She certainly does. I think she's just aiming for the 1000 post count.
Doesn't that take her up near MVP status?
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I guess an MVP is supposed to provide answers rather than questions.
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I'd rather make out an MVA award
MVA = Microsoft's most Valuable Askers
Rocky
You can't climb up a ladder with your hands in your pockets.
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Rocky# wrote: I'd rather make out an MVA award
MVA = Microsoft's most Valuable Askers
She wouldn't qualify there either. How about MAP? Most Annoying Poster.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote: Most Annoying Poster.
Budding Troll? 
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote: Most Annoying Poster
Yes that's a gr8 one! lolzz.
Lets give her this valuable award shall we?
Cheers...
Rocky
You can't climb up a ladder with your hands in your pockets.
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Jeffrey Walton wrote: Doesn't that take her up near MVP status?
Not even remotely. AFAIK this is based on vote rating of which ive never seen as many 1's as she has (even in the days of the Grand Nag-us/Osmosian).
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I think she's just aiming for the 1000 post count.
But there are other constructive ways of getting post counts up without posting junk.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I would like to suggest if possible CP Team can consider giving a link to 'Forum Posting Guidelines' in the 'Administrative Post' that appears on top of every forum. I am actually intending this article, which is a must-read for any newbie before posting in the discussion forums.
http://www.codeproject.com/scrapbook/ForumGuidelines.asp[^]
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Hello,
I wanted to suggest an export feature of 'My Bookmarks'. I'm not saying just the urls stored in there, but also the associated webpages, images, source code etc.
Perhaps the optimal final format could be a Html Help file (CHM).
Imagine exporting all your codeproject bookmarks into a chm which you can carry anywhere you want and read your bookmarked articles when you want/can.
If it can be done, I think it would be quite helpful.
Zulu
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zulu wrote: Html Help file (CHM).
Why? But that should be a bulky binary file. Isn't it? 
Rather than this, how about exporting it to something like Google Accounts Bookmarks or a similar hosted webservice format? That should be more user-friendly. What do you feel?
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Google Accounts Bookmarks or similar service is a good idea, but it would still require having an internet connection and on top of that, does it save the whole page including all attachments and images? I don't see much difference from exporting the 'my bookmarks' page into another simple 'bookmark' format.
What I would like is to export everything (articles and all associated files) into a single file, a sort of local repository of all che code project articles I'm interested in, so that I can access it at any time, anywhere.
In regard to the final file being bulky, if you consider even 1Mb on average per article, even if you have 100 bookmarks it's gonna be a 100mb file, which by current standard I don't consider bulky at all.
Perhaps the export application, instead of running on the website, it could be developed as a desktop application, which would periodically/manually check your bookmarks on code project, and syncronize your local version, updating your local chm file. In this way, if you have a really large number of bookmarks, you will wave to 'export' a large amount of data only once, successive export could be very fast and small.
Perhaps, the bookmarks downloader/syncronizer could even be developed as a library that could be reused by other applications. For example, I am developing a personal knowledge base application where I store all information I may need, including entire articles picked from various websites, and this library could be used to integrate code project articles into this personal knowledge base,
which also happens to be in Html Help format.
Zulu
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20,000 users, all exporting 100 Mb data - Chris's hamsters are going to be knackered.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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Well, first of all I don't know the number of visitors of code project per day, but I don't think all of them would export 100Mb of data together. Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT. I think it can cope pretty fine with client applications downloading 100Mb once and then a couple more everytime bookmarks are syncronized after the initial download, assuming all user have a huge list of bookmarks anyways, which I doubt.
But, I don't know the figures, so Chris is the only one who can tell and evaluate if this is a possible thing.
Zulu
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zulu wrote: Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT.
The new CodeProject, which Chris and Co. are working on and promising time and again and which they say they are making in ASP.NET should be able to achieve this.
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I noticed that if you cast a few votes in a short amount of time, maybe 1 minute...I don't really know, it will prevent you from voting until a certain amount of time has past. I believe this is to prevent those "drive by" voters from doing what they do. I believe the software should be more intelligent at determining the intention of the voter. Instead of the dirt simple "if ("user vote count > ... && time < ...")" Perhaps it should catalog the user's voting habits and use some kind of logic to determine when the user should be blocked from voting and how long the user should be blocked from voting, if the user should be blocked from voting at all. I'm sure a genius such as you and your employees could whip up an intelligent algorithm that could do this.
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote: use some kind of logic
The devil's in the details.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
The devil's in the details.
Yes, but it is possible. This is your website, its a great one and it will probably be around forever I hope. Its worth all the effort to make this site as perfect as possible and intelligent. Who knows maybe someday the website will become too smart, reading everyone's posts and articles and becoming an entity on its own. It will hack all the computers on the internet and evolve its mind using all the computers in the world and take over the world.
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I prefer to think that Bob will be a benevolent ruler.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Are you suggesting something similar to 'Number of Email Messages Per Hour' by free email services to thwart spam through thier website?
But here the need of the hour is to allow and patronize bona fide voting without any blocks but at the same time protecting the website from fake or abusive votes.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Are you suggesting something similar to 'Number of Email Messages Per Hour' by free email services to thwart spam through thier website?
Its already been implemented by Chris, I was suggesting a more intelligent algorithm to be used so it wouldn't seem so restricting.
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote: Its already been implemented by Chris
Where? Currently I feel only the following restrictions we have is the IP Address and Self-Vote restrictions. Isn't it?
(*) You can not vote onto yourself. The Vote links don't appear on your own messages.
(*) Messages posted from your own IP Address don't get the voting rights.
(*) An IP Address gets a single vote for a message.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Where? Currently I feel only the following restrictions we have is the IP Address and Self-Vote restrictions. Isn't it?
Nope, try it for your self. Just vote whatever on a bunch of messages and you will see. Just go down this forum and vote for every message you see.
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