Bugs and Suggestions

16-Mar-10 8:33

Avi Berger wrote:
Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format.

It is the other way around, the format provided does not fit well with the dialogs and discussions that often emerge naturally. The format needs to be improved, i.e. brought closer to what it is in the programming forums.

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Re: Quick Answer Limit

Avi Berger16-Mar-10 15:04

Avi Berger

16-Mar-10 15:04

I won't disagree with you. I like the programming forums. Quick answers isn't yet fitting its use.

My other thought was some moderator function for quick questions that didn't fit the mold - perhaps to move it to a forum thread or to change it to a "developer dialog" that would fix the messages in order rather than letting them bounce around by rating.

From the link another person provided, it sounds like the design is headed to the format that Stack Overflow uses.

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Re: Quick Answer Limit

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 13:40

16-Mar-10 13:40

As others have said: we need to rework it a little.

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Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

General Programming

Pete O'Hanlon16-Mar-10 5:38

Pete O'Hanlon

16-Mar-10 5:38

When I click Article > General Programming > Uncategorised Quick Answers, I'm taken to this[^] page where I get a status 403. Is this section really meant to be in General Programming?

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Re: General Programming

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 6:14

16-Mar-10 6:14

Try now?

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Re: General Programming

Pete O'Hanlon16-Mar-10 9:52

Pete O'Hanlon

16-Mar-10 9:52

Much better thanks.

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Re: General Programming

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 6:17

16-Mar-10 6:17

I don't get any error on clicking the link that you had posted. Question & Answer section open up with Unanswered tab selected.

FAQs

Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:06

16-Mar-10 5:06

The new FAQs are awesome. Unfortunately they are very hard to find. Here is where they are hidden on most CP pages:

left pane, Articles, General Reading (click that!), CodeProject FAQs

And then there is a Help menu with a "General FAQ".

Suggestion: add an entry in the Help menu, maybe call it "More FAQs"

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Abhinav S16-Mar-10 5:21

Abhinav S

16-Mar-10 5:21

Luc Pattyn wrote:
The new FAQs are awesome. Unfortunately they are very hard to find.

Hard to find? I did not even know they existed.
Thanks for pointing out they existed.

They are indeed well written - I wanted to vote for them but apparently we cannot.

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:24

16-Mar-10 5:24

They were discussed in the Lounge several days ago, I didn't find them then.
And now they are mentioned in the newsletter, with a link, that's what triggered this.

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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

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Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 5:29

16-Mar-10 5:29

I too was unaware of so many FAQ's! Thanks for pointing it out...

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Suggestion: add an entry in the Help menu, maybe call it "More FAQs"

I second this... it's really difficult to know otherwise.

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 5:29

16-Mar-10 5:29

We've *just* posted them. I'm updating links around the site to make it easy to find them.

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Chris Maunder

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:32

16-Mar-10 5:32

yep, and they got praised already!

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Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 5:35

16-Mar-10 5:35

Just apologising for running late on getting links up. Frown | :(

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:39

16-Mar-10 5:39

No problem.

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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

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Dan Neely16-Mar-10 6:01

Dan Neely

16-Mar-10 6:01

That's almost as hard to find as my post[^] from a few days ago complaining about not being able to find them at all. D'Oh! | :doh:

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 6:03

Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

16-Mar-10 6:03

Sorry, I missed that.

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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

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Tom Deketelaere16-Mar-10 4:56

Tom Deketelaere

16-Mar-10 4:56

When I answered this question [^]
I noticed a strange number on my reputation points 3902, hovering above it tells me it's my total points, yet my total points on my profile are 8613.

I could blaim caching for that but the difference seems a bit much.

Happend on web21 with chrome

Re: Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 5:18

[Bug] caught the reason...

16-Mar-10 5:18

I agree to this, i am facing/noticed a lot like this but based on current work going on with reputations didn't report it. Keeping this thing in check, will look back again once the reputation thing is little stabilized.

The difference is too much to be considered as Cache! IE browser, various web servers.

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 5:21

Re: Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

16-Mar-10 5:21

When we reply in Q&A, the answers showing the total reputation data is not considering 'Author' points in them.

It's the exact difference that we loose out there.

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 6:21

Re: Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

16-Mar-10 6:21

I see

Posted 1 hour ago
Tom Deketelaere 8,624
Authority 4,721 Editor 24

We need to make this more clear.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 6:34

Re: Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

16-Mar-10 6:34

I suggest you use "Total" everywhere the sum of the seven rep components is used, including in the rep graph legend. And please add the total to the Who's Who page too, as an eight block.

Tom Deketelaere: Total 8,624
Authority 4,721 Editor 24

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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

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Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 6:34

Re: Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

16-Mar-10 6:34

John's already put in his request. It's cooking now.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 7:02

Re: Points shown in answer to a question are wrong.

16-Mar-10 7:02

I have:
Posted 2 hours ago
Sandeep Mewara 8,235
Authority 6,801 Editor 338

It should be 12715
Author: 4480
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12715-4480 = 8235
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Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 7:05