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I'll add these to the suggestions list. Thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Occasionally, someone will post a message in the Lounge as an informal poll, with a statement along the lines of "Vote 5 if you agree or 1 if you disagree".
How about allowing users to create their own polls? I have seen this done on other forums such as InvisionFree[^], and it seemed to work quite well.
You could allow users to add several answers for each poll and show the results as a bar-graph in the original post. Only registered users should be allowed to vote and only one vote per poll should be allowed. Polls could be either single or multiple choice.
Anyway, Vote 5 if you think this is a good idea, or vote 1 if you think it's a terrible idea. 
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The issue is the layout. Many BBS style boards have the original topic/question at the top and all an answers underneath that - 1 thrad per page kinda thing. This allows a poll to be displayed nicely.
Our forums, however, currently only support an "all threads" layout (much to some member's dismay).
Including the poll inside a message is possible but very messy because it could mean a single page of messages could have multiple poll voting and display forms - a lot of processing our end and a lot of HTML to be sending to viewers who may not be interested.
I'd like to do this but I'm not sure it's practical in our current format.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Why not just have a little box with the vote options in a thread and then use a bunch of Ajaxy magic to show results on the poll.
I think the format for declaring a poll should be something like:
<poll>
<title>Random Question</title>
<option>Option 1</option>
<option>Option 2</option>
<poll>
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What's up with the css for quotes? All of a sudden, my quote text is the same size as the message text itself.
-- modified at 8:20 Thursday 17th May, 2007
BTW, I went into my profile and reduced the font point size from 9 to 8, and that seems to have addressed the problem.
Lastly, how about giving us a WIDER textarea input for the signature. The one that's on the profile page is too small to be usable.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: how about giving us a WIDER textarea input for the signature. The one that's on the profile page is too small to be usable.
That is by design 
A sign is meant to be short and sweet. I don't want to send the message that Bigger is Better. This isn't Texas.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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You already limit the number of characters - There's no reason to make it almost unusable as well. 
Did you change something? Now, my sig is smaller than I want it. I'm going to go back and make it 9pt again.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Yes, I think Chris is playing around with the signature css. It seems to randomly change with the time of day 
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I know this has been suggested before - but I'm really wondering if this feature will likely be implemented in the near future? Or is it a lower priority? Basically just to be able to see the number of download requests for a file on your articles (wouldn't need to be publicly displayed - only to an article's author). You could enable it for all new articles only, and not worry about the articles that have already been posted. I think you already check that the user is logged in before serving the file, so a counter should be doable or not?
cheers
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Ashley van Gerven wrote: I'm really wondering if this feature will likely be implemented in the near future?
Yes, this is a fundamental peice of the puzzle and we have a developer assigned solely to this issue. The problem? 7 years of log files for around 15-20 machines, 12 logs a month for each machine, each log file between 3 and 7Gb.
We'll be parsing the logs to get accurate downloads for all files and then redoing the way downloads are served to ensure download counts stay accurate.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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That's great! Look forward to it.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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In huge threads, it is sometimes hard to see what post a reply is actually for. It would then be very hand with a link to parent. Please, pretty please, with sugar on top?
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Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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I was just thinking about exactly this same thing and have thought about it before.. but NOOOOOOOO you beat me to the actual suggestion by what.. an hour and a half.
A pox on you! 
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I am a devious mind thief! I'm gonna take that thought you're thinking right now too!!
Patrick Sears wrote: A pox on you!
I am not entirely sure what that means. I'm guessing it's a colloquial expression.
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote: I am a devious mind thief! I'm gonna take that thought you're thinking right now too!!
Agh.. I can feel it slipping away.. damn. Well, it's gone.
Joergen Sigvardsson wrote: I am not entirely sure what that means. I'm guessing it's a colloquial expression.
"A pox on you" was once an expression of ill-will, deriving from the smallpox outbreaks of the 19th century.
But I only meant it as a joke
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Or alternatively how about like Rediff Articles messageboards like in Iframes?
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I am not familiar with that type of message board. Got a link?
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How about a button which picks out a particular “linear thread” from a thread? By this I mean that you’d press a button on a particular message and it, its parent, its parent’s parent and so on are shown. This would enable you to follow a particular conversation from a thread.
Steve
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Intereting and tricky.
I wonder what the SQL for that would look like.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I'm afraid SQL is not one of my strong points.
Steve
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this is suggestion for codeproject to create new forums like window services, additional .net components ... etc
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Windows Services befits into C#, Visual Basic .NET and similarly the other topics listed right?
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yes,
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Windows Services befits into C#, Visual Basic .NET and similarly the other topics listed right?
but, if codeproject have forum "WIndows Forms" , then why not forum on more important topic "Window Service". We can find lots of messages on "Window Service" in different of forums. But if there is forum on "WIndow Service", we can find all messages in one forum
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The Who's Who at the Code Project page shows after a search only 10 entries,
and there is no indication how many matches at all, and no next page link (SeaMonkey 1.5a).
Also my profile shows as location Afgahnistan (first entry instead of not given).
(I'm from Germany but I will not update my profile any time soon, so please keep it as secret  )
Hans
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Hans wrote: (I'm from Germany but I will not update my profile any time soon, so please keep it as secret )
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