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DavidCrow wrote: It seems to be happening when the post being replied to has been voted low.
Hmm - that doesn't make sense (though I'm not disputing there could be a weird bug). Is this consistent?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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This is the first post I noticed it on. I found a few others before creating this post.
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It's showing for me. FF 2.0.0.14
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4....
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It's showing for me for FF, IE, and Safari.
Except that Safari crashed immediately. I hate safari.
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Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The good answer/bad answer feature has resulted in a rash of 'bad answer' votes, usually from people who have no idea what a good answer is, or a personal vendetta. I suggest that the OP and users above a certain level only can mark good/bad answers in a programming forum.
Christian Graus
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Christian Graus wrote: I suggest that the OP and users above a certain level only can mark good/bad answers in a programming forum.
That's probably a valid scenario. One question does come up...what determines when the "good/bad" (helpful/unhelpful) options appear and the regular 1-5 votes appear?
If I look at this message[^] it has the "helpful/unhelpful" buttons, but this one[^] doesn't.
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They appear when you remember to select the "Answer" message type above, as I have just done!
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The Good/Bad Answer buttons only show for the first level of responses to the initial post. All replies to the replies will show the 1-5 scale at the bottom of the message (this can be seen in the two examples you mentioned).
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Could we have it so that when posting a new message at the top of the screen it says "Posting a new message in the [insert forum here]" (or similar)? I just confused myself and wasn't sure where I was posting.
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Also, could we have some clever question you have to answer, to prevent posting when drunk? 
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I was sober when it happened. I'm sure as heck not now
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Already on the TODO list
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Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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When attempting to add a job there is no currency option for "Pounds Sterling" (aka GBP), nor is there an option for Euros. The four options available are a bit of an odd bunch (US, Canadaian, Australian and New Zealand Dollars).
The pins don't look like they are pinned in the correct place. For example, jobs in Toronto look like they are pinned somewhere in southern New York State until you zoom in quite close. I'm guessing that the "centre point" of the pin graphic does not correspond to the tip of the pin to which is the eye is drawn.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: When attempting to add a job there is no currency option for "Pounds Sterling" (aka GBP), nor is there an option for Euros. The four options available are a bit of an odd bunch (US, Canadaian, Australian and New Zealand Dollars).
My job listing is unlikely to contain any of these... maybe the currency should be an entry rather than a list?
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Added the missing currencies - sorry about that!
With regards to pins there's not much we can do. We throw them at Google and say 'here's the Lat/Long' and Trust In Google (I know, I know...)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris,
I've had a thought - forum suggestions.
I've noticed that a lot of posts in the programming forums are generally questions that get asked many times over, such as "How do I do cross form communication in C#?" and similar. I understand these questions as I too had them when I started playing around with C# and it isn't obvious if you don't know; similarly I understand the frustrations of those who try to help and why CP weariness sets in (usually denoted by the "Google is your friend response").
Could we have an intermediary step between a poster asking a question and it appearing on the boards? This brief intermission would be a "We found the following posts and articles which may answer your question. Have a look-see, if none of them seem appropriate, click here to proceed with your post" type affair.
I don't think this would stop all repeat questions, but might help those who don't have English as a first language, those who don't know how the site works, those who are posting out of frustration and those who are pulling their hair out answering the same questions time-upon-time-upon-time.
Cheers,
Me.
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That's a great idea. Probably would need tweaking to get it right, with lots of heuristic code to guess at what the poster is asking.
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Would absolutely love to but we don't - yet - have the database power.
It's possible though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I have a hamster you can borrow.
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Ew... a used hamster, no thanks. 
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Getting this (twice) when attempting to post a message.
Error: Failed to load viewstate. The control tree into which viewstate is being loaded must match the control tree that was used to save viewstate during the previous request. For example, when adding controls dynamically, the controls added during a post-back must match the type and position of the controls added during the initial request.. Ticket: 27952
Edit:
Using IE 7; posting responses (not new messages) in Soapbox; happened during the twenty minutes prior to this post.
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Yep - Just been uploading new code so you would have been viewing and old and a new page between page loads. Should be good now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I think you should make an article ineligible for voting until AFTER it has been made publicly available.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I think you should make an article ineligible for voting until AFTER it has been made publicly available.
I agree. It doesn't make a lot of sense to allow voting on articles before they've been made public, if for no other reason than the majority of them will not see the light of day, so voting is a waste of time; it doesn't affect anything.
People voting should know this, but I think there is some visceral satisfaction for voting 1 on something that the author obviously didn't spend very much time on.
For those articles that eventually get approved, it would be cleaner if they make their debut with no votes. In other words, the voting should begin only when an article goes public. The slate should be clean at that point.
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Article votes are handy pre-publish.
How about we just nuke the votes when an article is accepted?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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