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Chris,
I think you have lawsuit material with BuzzyCode[^]. It looks like the entire site, when it works, was put together by a couple of idiots wanting to copy CP and they've populated their "articles database" by copy'n'pasting LOTS of articles directly from CP. The "people" "posting" the articles are all fake, as are the comments to them. The site says they've got some 2,700+ articles. I wonder how many of them were copied from here?? Hell, I think the entire site is a badly written copy of CP itself!
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They have been contacted and we will protect the rights of our authors to the full extent of the law. This is totally unacceptable.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I signed up to that very productive site immediately (only members can download).
They have 500 members and over 2000 articles now.
An article download is a ZIP containing one or more ZIPs straight from CodeProject,
so first advice to CP authors should be to include some comment and/or text file
in our ZIPs.
I do not understand why they have stolen only one of my articles (Sokoban).
[ADDED] They kept the sentence "Some of the following items relate to recent
topics on one of the CodeProject message boards" intact, that's nice. [/ADDED]
And I did not find a way to submit articles !?
Is it OK if I continue to use CodeProject? I can only hope they copy our good
stuff, and attract some/all of the trolls.
I trust you will speed up the launch of the new CP site to beat the competition 
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- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
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You may certainly continue to use CodeProject. However, what they have done is illegal and totally goes against the spirit of the community. It's appalling behaviour and I'm disgusted with them for stealing our authors' work so blatantly.
My advice: please do not support that site. It only encourages others.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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They are unauthorized CP mirrors and blood-sucking-leaches. I hope that CP has already initiated intellectual property infringment suit against that LogicsIndia.
Chris Maunder wrote: My advice: please do not support that site. It only encourages others.
That is why I am trying to emphasize in my posts that we should not click links from CP to boost the referral traffic to him. Isn't it correct, Chris?
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Pretty cool:
here and here.
Maybe it's a gate to a weird parallel universe? Who knows? 
BTW: I like the cat in the top left corner... I think I'm gonna switch to Buzzycode
Cheers,
Mario M.
Dear CodeProject member: Please don't forget to show me how clever you are by rating also this message as "crap/spam/trash" instead of writing a meaningful response!
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: The "people" "posting" the articles are all fake
True. They are trying to boost the page rank. Hence I responded in another thread that let us not click any link to BuzzyCode which will boost the Referral Traffic. Let us manually copy the link and paste it in a new isolated browser window.
We should not support that plagaristic felony website even indirectly. 
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Just a comment: the text in some articles wraps correctly when viewed using IE. In other articles, I have to expand the browser to occupy the entire desktop to keep from having to scroll left-right to read. Very inconvenient when trying to experiment with code in an article.
Not everyone has dual screens.
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If an article scrolls too wide then report it as broken. All edited articles should fit within a page. Unedited articles - those submitted directly by members - may not. We'll fix them as soon as we're made aware of them.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris or who ever is in charge!
I'm sorry for contacting you this way but I have a complaint:
How does this "article voting system" work? And what is even more important: What is it good for?
I mean: we don't get paid for writing articles and that's OK but I don't see why an author should get discredited by frustrated teens that give bad votes just for fun.
I'd suggest that negative votes must contain a reasonable explanation that states why the according article is "crap". Otherwise the author has no idea how he/she should improve his/her article and this leads to frustration!
And why are those votings anonymously? If someone thinks that my article is "poor" I'd like to know why!
Maybe you should reconsider that voting system!
Cheers,
Mario M.
Dear CodeProject member: Please don't forget to show me how clever you are by rating also this message as "crap/spam/trash" instead of writing a meaningful response!
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Don't worry about the occassional idiot voter. If an article has merit, then others will vote higher when they read it.
We've had many discussions about the voting system, and people regularly suggest putting some mechanism in to get people to say why they downvote. The problem is that it is too easy for people just to put crap into the text with a low vote.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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"If an article has merit, then others will vote higher when they read it."
Will they? Since friday my article had 1,190 viewers but I only received three votes. Actually only two people decided to vote after I rated my own article on saturday.
Of course now you can say: maybe your article is crap.
Maybe it is, but I'll never know why.
Cheers,
Mario M.
Dear CodeProject member: Please don't forget to show me how clever you are by rating also this message as "crap/spam/trash" instead of writing a meaningful response!
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F.Y.I:
Chris wrote:
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Hi Mario,
We've noodled over this one and all agree that asking for comments on low votes will mean lots of "asdf" comments.
What we'll do instead is display a voting histogram - it will show which votes are spurious
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Cheers,
Mario M.
Dear CodeProject member: Please don't forget to show me how clever you are by rating also this message as "crap/spam/trash" instead of writing a meaningful response!
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Link: http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.asp
"A brief desciption of how to use the article or code."
should be:
"A brief description of how to use the article or code."
Not sure if it has been reported or not, but I wanted to bring it to attention since it should be a quick fix and re-upload of that zip file.
Thanks 
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A second typo is on the 3rd page of the submission page as well:
"If you wish to include links to files that you will upload in Step 4, then please note that they will be located in the codecave/ directory. This includes zips and image files. Thus if you intend to upload an image called "screenshot.gif", it will be locatated at codecave/screenshot.gif. You will need to use the following code to display this image in your HTML"
locatated -> located
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locatated is no longer a valid word?? Dammit.
OK, fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks - all fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It was a nice feature when it was there. I cannot find it anymore.
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Looks like atleast 1 person hates the idea and has voted 1. I wonder why?
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The dreaded 'One-Voter' should be at least kept off from 'Suggestions and Bug Reports' forum.
The birthday page is really good feature but will this be able to manage through the heavy user base now?
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While not all members have listed their birthdays, for the current 4,439,957 members, that would mean a daily average of 12,132 pages to list them all. Even at 100 people a page, that's still 122 pages. While I agree it was a nice feature when we had it, considering the size of our community, it's probably not worthwhile keeping it.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
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The list could be filtered to only people who've posted a message or article in the past month. That would probably filter it down to a reasonable number. Assuming that doing so won't hammer the db ofc.
--
You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Or at least for the member celebrating his birthday either at logon or during posting a message a friendly 'Happy Birthday Greeting' can be added.
I admit that most of us never logout from CP. So the question, the logon event is raised for most of us once only the cookie expires or we explicitly reinstall the Internet Explorer.
Any clues for the problem I have raised in the second paragraph?
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