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Ouch. 30 GB of logs a month? Exactly how many servers does CodeProject use? 
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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I had a really horrible fashback of you being Andrew Divoff from the Wishmaster films then I read that. I even heard his voice - "It is done".
Wishmaster[^]
Anyway. Going on to read how you are going to get the stats, I thought it migh be interesting if the CP developers / admins wrote some articles on how certain problems arrose and how they solved them. I think it would be a great educational insight into workings of a big site like this.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion
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Any chance of adding a few more pixesls of space between the "Rate this message 1 2 3 4 5" line and the "Modify Delete" line. I seem to keep clicking on Modify when I try to give a 5 rating"
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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You need to improve your hand eye co-ordination.
-prakash
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I agree. I went to modify your message and ended up voting you a 5! 
To people wondering why this is a problem, consider laptop users, especially occasional laptop users like myself, who can't exercise the same level of control on a trackpad as they can with a mouse.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion
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I'd like to see voting disabled in the Soapbox.
I'd be interested to see if people would contribute more to a discussion rather than voting down anything that doesn't fit their own personal world-view.
It would also be good to ban anonymous posting in the Soapbox, to see if it cuts down on the trolling.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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This would kind of defeat the purpose of the soap box. It's meant to be the place everyone can come and have it out with each other. It's the pressure valve of CodeProject.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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How about putting more vote numbers next to the rating? General, gold, bronze and platinum icons with their averages next to the total average rating? This way, a person can determine who his best and worst audience is. This is useful mostly for the articles.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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While I am seldom in the "not kid sister" friendly soapbox, I do not think removing the voting would increase responses much. It seems if a person is casting a vote and not adding a response, may not think it is worth their time to post anyway.
I know for me, I have never replaced a response with a vote. If I feel the need response, I do it with a post. Votes are simply a method to say you agree or not with a post. Would hate to see 25 posts saying simply "Yep, I agree", or "Not for me"...
Rocky <><
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Yep;)
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
"Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I agree.
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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I agree with this, at least the bit about disabling voting. In the other forums, voting can work to highlight or de-emphasize especially good or bad posts. But the nature of The Soapbox causes a good deal of polarization WRT public opinion - a post can go from red to gray to neither in the space of an afternoon, based on who happens to be reading at the time.
Worse yet is the possibility that voting discourages people from replying. I doubt that this is so common, yet seeing a post with only 1-votes and only positive replies indicates that it might - obviously, there is disagreement, but rather than share with the rest of us the reader leaves his ambiguous "1" and moves on.
Now, i wouldn't mind seeing voting replaced with a kill file feature... 
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things..."
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Is it possible, when you click on a person's personal profile, to see your average rating number for all articles and messages that you've rated for that person, at the bottom of his/her page? A link that has all message correspondences between you and them could also be added.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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That would be like a detailed "you like/dislike this person" info field. The other way round it would be more useful:
On my personal profile I want to see the average rating of my articles and the average rating of my messages. If both numbers are less than 3, I know that I'm doing something badly wrong. 
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Vote '1' if you're too lazy for a discussion
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But that's already available in your articles page and message threads page. 
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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Where?
My article page looks like that:
Articles by Corinna John (15 articles found)
C# Programming
[list]
Multimedia
[list]
About Corinna John
[profile]
No average rating, not even the ratings of the single articles.
And my messages page can't be displayed, I get error 505 evertime I try to load it. Not only today - it has been the same error for weeks, and with all messages pages, not only with my page. One day long ago, I think it had worked, but I cannot remember any average rating line.
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Vote '1' if you're too lazy for a discussion
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The Messages Posted link works from Midnight to around 3 AM only.  It's been a very busy year for Code Project, but it does work. As for the article rating, you're right, that is, however, available at the upper-right corner of each article. It would be nice if it was added to your article page. It's unusual because it is added to the My Bookmarks page, but that's usually only for other users.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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Corinna John wrote:
No average rating, not even the ratings of the single articles.
There is a little "trick". There is that textbox underneath the Code Project logo on top of the site. If you do a search for "Corinna John" and select "Author" from the dropdown list you get much more information.
Corinna John wrote:
And my messages page can't be displayed, I get error 505 evertime I try to load it.
Me too. At least sometimes. It usually works when there isn't much traffic on the site. The only thing that sometimes helps is hitting reload until you get the actual page.
Best regards from Berlin
Dennis
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Actually, not more of, it is a question.
Is there a way to view all Code Project users, preferably by geographic location?
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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A search feature (find CP user by area or city) would be even more handy to find programmers nearby. 
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Yikes! No! Why would I want to be found? Some of us are quite happy running corporations from unlikely places in relative peace and anonymity.
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I would like point a small issue which i faced in CP . Few days back i posted thread reagrding a job opening in my company. Did you know what responce i got for that ?
Please see this link.
See the responce
I humbly requesting to the CP site handlers, to not promote this sort of users here.
Sreejith Nair
[ My Articles ]
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I've removed the thread.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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