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I am in favor of keeping it simple, predictable and easy to fill in. So my layout would just
double the row of radio buttons: the first row would contain "Most relevant remark: " followed
by the radio buttons and texts, the second row would be the actual voting row as it is now.
When the viewer has voted (or is the author), I would replace the radio buttons in the first
row by the current percentages. And I would not provide an "other" category; if none seem
appropriate, the voter would still have to select an existing one, but he always can add a
message.
The net result is:
- it takes almost no extra space
- it does not disrupt the current layout by much
- hence it should have a high acceptance
High acceptance is essential, I do not want to reduce the probability a vote is cast.
Voting is the primary goal, getting info as to why a low vote is cast is secondary to that.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.
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I disagree. You don't always vote on an article intending it as feedback to the author. You can vote for an article as an attempt at telling others that it's good or bad.
So if I see an article that is flawed (in my opinion), I might give it a 1 or a 2 so that other people are forewarned. I may not feel inclined to spend 3-4 minutes explaining why I voted low.
Similarly I might see an article I really like and I might give it a 5. But there's no reason for me to post a big message praising the article and the author.
The other thing is that a lot of people vote blindly. Sometimes you might find a not so useful article from a popular author that's got two dozen 5-votes within a day of posting and you can be sure that most of the votes were from people who did not read the article.
It can work the other way too. If you are an unpopular Soapboxer for instance, you can expect some low votes. If you are from a commonly despised country (or your name suggests it), you might get voted down.
Too many factors go into how people vote.
I understand your pain, but insisting that people need to justify their votes with a message is plain ridiculous.
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But that's exactly where the current system comes unstuck. The voting system, in my opinion, should be geared to cater for both author and reader. A reader wants to have a good article and a writer wants to be able to provide it. If an author is providing bad or flawed articles then they deserve to know. In this way there is collective improvement, the quality of articles is increased. If the author then chooses to do nothing it is at his detriment. Correct me if i'm wrong but the whole purpose of this website is collective improvement. An online community where everyone can benefit, including authors.
I don't know if you read the rest of the posts or just the first one but you should, the current system we are all agreed on does not require a message just a simple radiobutton click.
You Click 2 then you click 'bad formatting' or something. I don't think that's terrible difficult, it's certainly not gonna waste any precious time, and its a simple and effective way to indicate to the author where he could improve. Frankly, if an uthor has gone to the trouble of trying to provide other people with useful information, he deserves to know if, and where, he's going wrong.
The worst way for people to vote is when they are voting on something negatively just because its not what they were looking for.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: But there's no reason for me to post a big message praising the article and the author
Agreed, but praise should be given where its due as should constructive criticism.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: If you are from a commonly despised country
As for this, i have personally never judged anyone on a forum based on their name or provenance and believe it is utterly detestable, yet i'm sure it occurs.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I may not feel inclined to spend 3-4 minutes explaining why I voted low.
Also, 3-4 minutes might not be enough, if the article really rates a 1 vote. Lately I have seen several articles where the author has not even replaced the boilerplate text. A 1 is too good for these articles - they deserve some large negative number.
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Voted: 1
Reason: asdf
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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As a matter of fact, a rating of 1-2 on a *decent* article can't be justified, and it's done anyway. Accordingly, people won't give you positive feedback, because it's not about that at all.
Maybe it's just my rotten idea of man, but I think people vote in that area (let's forget the very few horrible articles here on CP) for 3 reasons:
- they asked too many stupid questions, expecting to get everything spoon-fed, and cannot deal with the fact that you don't see yourself as a 24-7 support center.
- they have a competing article - possibly just published -, that is about to drop out from the front page because of your work.
- they have severe problems that are not all related to your article. 
I'd say the *valuable* feedback comes from people that vote in the area of upper 3s to 5s. These readers have read your article, are interested in your work and appreciate that you've put a lot of energy into your project. The intention here is not to hurt you, but to help you to improve your article (accordingly, they might well wait with their final rating if the there are a few flaws).
Just my 0.02$
Cheers!
modified on Monday, February 04, 2008 2:57:15 PM
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There is another reason i've seen pele vote bad. They go to the article expecting one thing and because the article isn't exactly what they wanted suddenly they think its a crap article.
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Here's one [^]worthy of being turfed. Thanks.
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Saw it earlier and looks like it got zapped 
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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While copying code snippets in PRE tags on the forums and pasting onto VC++ text editor, there is no line break. For example:
int main()
{
printf("Test \n");
return 0;
}
Result on VC++ editor:
int main() {
Maxwell Chen
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Thanks for reporting, Maxwell Chen.
Bug added.
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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I guess you are using Internet Explorer then.
I wrote an article on the subject, look for "Code Rescue".
It is unrelated to the CP rework, it was like that before.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: Code Rescue
Nice tool.
By the way, I have to figure out what browers (other than IE7) can bypass the control of our domain server's policy. The policy blocks CP forum form control's java script modification on the clipboard. When I use my computer at work, I have trouble pasting texts (URLs, general texts, and code snippets) onto CP forum's form control.
Maxwell Chen
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Check out this link
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=12076&msg=2402747[^]
In a tech forum, the user (C#Coudou) seems to have an obscene signature like
//------------------------------------
//Software is like a sex;
//It's great when it's free. C#Coudou
//------------------------------------
With Lounge and Soapbox, this can be tolerated. But tech forums are visited by people from all quarters and this would present a disgusting experience for them.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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1. I 100% agree this shouldn't be used as a tech signature.
However, the signature is same in all forums. The signature and content moderation are in place,
but we defenetly can miss something.
Thanks for letting us know. We will take care of it.
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it!
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Thank you.
It was little panicky since it was not KSF (Kid Sister Friendly) compliant.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Oh pulease... thats barely even rude, let alone obscene - I cant even believe you're worried. If they were using all manner of swearwords, racist remarks or derogatory comments then maybe.. but the word sex is not obscene, its risque, but not obscene.
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But there is a region to define those stuff.
1) Not definitely in technical forums which facilitates colloborative troubleshooting effort in our development.
2) Not definitely in a place which we do not want our kid sister to read.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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When we paste the link, the editor automatically clones a new window link too. I felt that when we paste the link inside a href (tag opened), the above encoding should be suppresed, since it would render a malformed html.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
modified on Friday, January 25, 2008 7:08:32 AM
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Bug added (and inhereted from asp version ).
And, as always, thanks for reporting, Vasudevan
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it!
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Currently, there is a workaround to follow, as CP Team would make the fix for the long run.
If we have the URL like wordpress.com without www or http://, then the automatic expansion would not happen.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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This has been addressed and will be uploaded in the next few days
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I cannot seem to get the article submission wizard to work. I have tried several times over the last week, each time with the same result. I have tried it in both Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox.
The welcome screen comes up fine, however when I click on the Submit an Article button at the bottom it goes to the step1 page and displays this message:
You have not came from the correct page. Please go to Article Submission wizard first.
Clicking on the article submission wizard link it provides takes me back to the page I was just on. I am pretty sure it is a bug and I am not doing anything wrong, but if so please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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