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Why the member average article ratings (MemberArticles page) are not weighted with the number of votes?
(Needless to say my rating would improve in the weighted approach  )
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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Are you asking why we don't provide average popularity? I'm not sure this number would have any actual meaning
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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No: I'm suggesting to replace average article rating with weighted average, for instance
Article A, rated 4.00, 10 votes
Article B, rated 3.00, 5 votes
will end up with average article rating 3.67 instead of 3.50.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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(1) a "paste without escaping HTML" button, or shortcut, or whatever. Or an "toggle escape" button or shortcut or whatever, that - if used immediately after pasting - changes the text just pasted to the opposite. (It doesn't have to be that Office paste as widget, but the same idea  )
The underlying problem: I generally work with "Auto-encode HTML", but sometimes want to paste without (e.g. when moving a section of code around). In this case I disable - paste - enable which requires switching to mouse and back.
(2) For the articles needing approval, a "you already judged that" marker for rejected ones.
Normally, when I think an article should not be published, I use "Report Article". That's ok, but the article remains on the front page in the "needing approval" list.
I am not asking for a "reject" mechanism, just for a "I rejected that" mark of any kind.
I guess you employ heavy caching for the front page, so you may not want to have user specific content. If so, you could move the list to a separate page, and only put something like "5 Articles awaiting judgement. Muhahahahaha!" on the front page.
(Yes, to make that work, the number needs to include articles I marked as "reject", and the list needs to somehow show that)
hey, the number of "ha"'s could express the number of articles awaiting!
Oh peter, that's ridiculously overdesigned. if you ask the right question it gets decisively simple - instead of the egomanic "Have I taken care of it?" just ask: "Has the article been taken care of?":
1. A button "I would reject that" to complement "Make Article publicly available".
2. A counter how many people would reject it.
The "I would reject" button could go to the "report" page, where I can report gross violations / leave a comment.
Well, if you would want to make sure everyone clicks each article just once, you still have a per-user-and-article flag, but maybe this isn't even necessary.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist
modified on Monday, May 12, 2008 3:08 AM
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If there is enough interest then yes, we could do this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If there is enough interest then yes, we could do this.
You could have the main list of forums that you have now + an incubation list of forums. The incubation list (which can have all these forums people keep asking for) would be accessible via a link or a menu. So people can still post on their favorite forums, but they won't clutter up the main list. If any forum in the incubation list gets more posts/month for a certain period, it can displace the lowest frequency forum in the main list. What do you think, Chris?
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Hey
I am 99% certain I clicked on bad question for a question but it says I have voted it a 5.
It may be my error but I am 99% sure its not - just thought I would let some one know.
Thanks.
At university studying Software Engineering - if i say this line to girls i find they won't talk to me
Dan
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A little suggestion related to your post.
If we have possibility to re-vote for an article, I believe we should be able to re-vote for a message too.
What do you think?
Giorgi Dalakishvili
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You can. You just need to reload the page
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I did reload the page to re-vote and it said I had voted 5 again - this was straight after.
Like I say it could have been my fault but I am pretty certain I clicked the right one.
Thanks
At university studying Software Engineering - if i say this line to girls i find they won't talk to me
Dan
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DanB1983 wrote: I did reload the page to re-vote and it said I had voted 5 again - this was straight after.
Yeah, but I think you can re-vote it as a bad question (and thus giving it a 1 automatically)
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The Delete key no longer works (at my house, at least) when editing a reply. I'd first suspect my keyboard, but it still works normally in other sites and all applications. It might also be that my local gremlins are having fun with me, but I thought I'd mention the problem on the off chance that it might actually be a bug.
On a related note, the tab order seems odd. I believe that tabbing from the subject line used to drop the cursor into the text box, but it doesn't now. It's rather obscure just where the cursor goes, but it's nowhere near the expected destination.
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I have to modify this, Chris. The Delete key does work - sometimes. Perhaps there's a filter at work that doesn't operate until a page load is complete (I often start typing before everything is loaded). Or I may just be psychotic and imagining it all.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
modified on Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:42 AM
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I've never seen it misbehave or heard others mention the delete key.
You didn't spill something on it, did you?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Nope, nothing spilled. But it is intermittent, and only happens when I'm posting at CP. Weird. Oh well, there's always the psychotic excuse to fall back on, I guess.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Which browser?
I frequently have delete key problem is Firefox - affecting all input fileds including the address bar, not just CP.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist
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It's still IE6SP1 - I have IE7 at work and it sucks so bad we fired the cleaning staff. No need to vacuum weekly.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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This link does not work - please fix
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/fastpageload.aspx
Certified VB6, SQL 7 and ASP developer
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Check out this[^] post. When the message was composed, the Preview rendered the last set of PRE tags just fine. But, when shown in the normal forum view, the last set of PRE tags renderes like there was never a closing PRE tag.
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Works fine for me... (in IE and FF)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Damn! Now it works for me too. I knew I should have grabbed a screenshot! 
Oh well, at least it works now.
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I was blown away when I saw that clicking on the Next button would begin the display of the next page of posts at the exact top of the window, without the header stuff. I suppose you're going to tell me that it's always been this way, and if it has, then take this as a belated thanks. 
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My first reaction is still "What have I broken??" followed by a careful checking, then a careful, quiet sigh of relief 
You're welcome.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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