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How about having a "[move]" link at the base of your own messages that lets you move your message and any thread below it to a different forum in the main set? I know you set the functionality was already there but you weren't able to use it yourself without taking on liability for the message, but surely you can allow authors to move their own messages? And if the message is part of an existing thread, moving it should replace it's old self with a link to the new thread for continuance.
This would help with wrongly posted messages (i.e. programming questions in the lounge) and also, more importantly, allow you to take a sub thread of a conversation out to a new thread to be discussed. For example if in my recent thread about American tourists someone mentioned a new backpack system they could reply and continue the thread on camping equipment elsewhere, or if a thread in the lounge about cheesecakes moved onto the topic of circumcision, the new line of conversation could be continued automatically in the Soapbox forum.
How about it?
An orgy in Tiverton... ({) `/\^^/\:p (Z) :$/\^^/\` (})
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Adding a feature that would modify a message by replacing it's contents with "go to this forum" yet would keep the original thread intact on the (allegidly inappropriate) forum doesn't help IMO. If one message is moved, they all should be moved, so if this were done then the thread starter would have the power of where to move the thread.
Problem here is that moving a thread to a new forum means the moved thread must appear at the head of the message list. At the moment there's no way to insert a thread based on posting date using our current threading model without going through the extremely time consuming process of rethreading the entire forum. The boards are optimised for quick insert/quick read, and so a full rethread of a forum such as the lounge can take 5 mins. IF we accept that messages that are moved end up at the top of the queue then people will post a message, move it to one forum, then move it back in order to keep the message at the top of the queue.
I prefer the current CP vigilante approach to wrong-doers 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I prefer the current CP vigilante approach to wrong-doers
Oh yeah! Tar & Feathers, Crucifixion, or just banishment to Hell[^]! 
Norm Almond: I seen some GUI's in my life but WTF is this mess
Leppie: I made an app for my sister and she wouldnt use it till it was colorful enough
Norm:good point leppie, from that statement I can only deduce that this GUI must be aimed at children
Leppie:My sister is 25
-Norm on the MailMagic GUI
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:Homer: :duff: 
"There are no stupid question's, just stupid people."
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There is already ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
There is already
Ah, but is there one for Düff? (It's from Sweden!)
--Mike--
"I'd rather you just give me a fish today, because even if you teach me how to fish, I won't do it. I'm lazy." -- Nish
Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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The Homer drool is still a dream then?
We don't need a thinker! We need a do-er! Someone who will act first, without considering the consequences. - Homer J Simpson
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I'd love it, but with a site as big as CP how quickly would FOX jump down Chris' throat about using it?
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Russell Morris
"Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
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How about at least occasionally calculating some per capita status on codeproject.
For example it would be interesting how many Swedes (I'm a proud Swede) there is for every Swedish gold code-project medal.
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Shouldn't there be something like
codeproject.com/script/profile/medal.asp?31115
which returns application/gif?
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Why isn't the articles at codeproject in xml?
Thus enabling not just flexible look & feel, but also web-services downloading related articles to for example dynamic help.
I would gladly translate 10 articles to xml.
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BTW I won't ever complain about the look & feel of codeproject, which is the best I've ever seen.
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The server is sometimes slow.
By caching an xsl-doc, containing the menu and such, and letting the clients download only the articles, and having some life-time of a few hours( a session) on the menu xsl, this site would perhaps be faster?
Isn't it so that all users of codeproject should be developers and therefore interested in having the latest technology. So backward compatibility not should be an issue.
I use Opera for browing at home.
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Translating html to xml cannot be automatically done. It requires human sweat and time. Not likely to happen in the foreseeing future.
On the other hand, article authors are already almost allowed to upload .xml versions of their articles. Today the upload form only accepts gif/jpeg and zip files, but this is not hard to let xml go in. I believe more about xml-formatted articles when it comes from the authors' side.
How low can you go ?
(MS retrofuck)
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Just to make clear, I didn't suggest automatic translation into xml, that is why I ended my post with "I'll gladly translate 10 documents" I must admit that I'm a little offended here.
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I think it's a good idea and probably one the CP team are considering implementing in the ASP.NET version.
Michael
"I've died for a living in the movies and tv.
But the hardest thing I'll ever do is watch my leading ladies,
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandaging my knee."
-- The Unknown Stuntman
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Do you know anyting about an asp.net version of cp coming up?
where have you heard about that?
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Hugo Hallman wrote:
Do you know anyting about an asp.net version of cp coming up?
where have you heard about that?
I know very little apart from it's a big job. If you browse through the suggestions forums you'll be able to pick-up on bits and pieces about the upgrade.
Michael
"I've died for a living in the movies and tv.
But the hardest thing I'll ever do is watch my leading ladies,
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandaging my knee."
-- The Unknown Stuntman
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Hi Hugo,
Translating the articles to XML is actually a reasonably simple task (we have the meta data, and we have HTML tidying components that will output XHTML) but I'm not sure how that will help.
Changing the look and feel of CP isn't something that XML will help with. the layout is all dynamically generated as it is, so adding an XML/XSLT layer will just add extra load.
Allowing articles to be downloaded via a webservice would mean the server load would go through the roof and advertising would disappear. CodeProject looks and smells like it's free but it isn't - our advertisers are the ones who pay our enormous connection costs, salaries and hardware costs and without them we couldn't survive.
OTOH your idea is definitely an interesting one so all I can say is "stay tuned"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
our advertisers are the ones who pay our enormous connection costs, salaries
A freudian slip? 
James
Sig code stolen from David Wulff
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Took me a good 2 mintues to work out where the slip was (OK - maybe I should just open my my eyes next time). It's not so much a Freudian slip, just poor ordering of terms
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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James T. Johnson wrote:
A freudian slip?
Exactly what I was thinking
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Hi
This defaults to your current preference, but i find the its better to show the complete thread , not just for one day if that is your filter.
Just a thought...
"There are no stupid question's, just stupid people."
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