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I been visiting this site for about 1 year and answered many questions in VC++ forum, Most of the questions that go unanswered are
1. Badly written question
2. The poster expects half of the project to be implemented with his one line question, like "how to write a bubble sort?".
3. The question does not belong to the forum.
4. The poster has not spend too much time investigating the problem.
5. etc.
So the escalation queue would be the questions that would belong to pulgatory questions.
For example,
http://forums.asp.net/1070328/ShowPost.aspx
This guy has dumped the whole src code which he himself says that he had not written the code and its not working for some reason.
Not many "experts" like to spend time on something that is not an athentic effort of the poster himself. (an example reason)
-prakash
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Prakash,
Your argument could be partially accepted though not always.
1) Poorly phrased question. Normally, some considerate persons question back the poster asking them to substantiate their stand with more data or information.
2) Implementation Request: Yes. No one can ever accept this. Perhaps questions like this need to be marked for 'Purgatory' and need to be expunged. These does not, in fact practice healthy forum discussion threads.
3)Not a proper forum: Sometimes the poster out of his desperate need for an quick resolution hastily cross posts in multiple forums. In some cases, when the forums are interrelated, you can allow this to have it answered in one and then link other queries to the this one or ask the poster or moderator to expunge the duplicate queries.
4)This is a variant of argument no. (2).
Additionally, the forum also need to discourage subjects like 'Urgent' etc.
Of course, while these contribute to some 30% of the forum posts, an 'Unanswered Classification', helps in a more granular division and to ensure two things:
(*) Bona fide questions are not skipped.
(*) Makes administration of forums efficient so that any junk postings can be cleared quickly.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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Trollslayer wrote:
0. Homework.
That fits in point no 2 
-prakash
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Trollslayer wrote:
0. Homework.
Yeap, I agree on that
"Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow
cheers,
Alok Gupta
VC Forum Q&A :- I/ IV
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I agree 100%
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
CP can also bring a category called 'Unanswered Questions', which can enlist all the questions which do not have any reply threads.
But a lot of questions, I'm sure, get (a) out of date, the programmer is no longer working on the project, or (b) already answered, getting no answer here perhaps the programmer went elsewhere, to a book or colleagues for example, and got his answer, which is why he didn't repost.
This, along with the other objections, should be considered. Maybe the programmer with the unanswered questions could just repost if he wants his question answered, of course imploring people to consider it this time and/or asking what's wrong with the question if it's not understandable.
Danny
The stupidity of others amazes me!
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If the original poster really wanted an answer to their question, they'd come back in 2-3 days and post it again, hopefully at a different time to catch a new audience.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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Hi,
While posting a hyperlink in Clipboard, CP automatically does the job of pasting it as an HTML Link and also a new Window text along with it. Cool. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
But if I would like to have a particular text to be hyperlinked, just in Outlook (Ctrl +K) in Compose Window, it would be very useful too.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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now dont tell me you are that lazy to click on link or link[^]
-prakash
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And Prakash,
Can you read through the suggestion again bit slowly and patiently though? It does not complain a discrepancy or error with the Link or Link (^). It would be another feature extension.
The current setup would place the same text as href value and linked text. Two times.
If you had used Microsoft Outlook (Express) or a similar HTML Editor component based on IE (MSHTML), you should have come across the CTRL+K hyperlink. And that is what is being suggested to.
Hope this clarifies your doubt.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
Can you read through the suggestion again bit slowly and patiently though? It does not complain a discrepancy or error with the Link or Link (^). It would be another feature extension.
The current setup would place the same text as href value and linked text. Two times.
If you had used Microsoft Outlook (Express) or a similar HTML Editor component based on IE (MSHTML), you should have come across the CTRL+K hyperlink. And that is what is being suggested to.
Hope this clarifies your doubt.
I assume you are refering to these steps in outlook express or what ever.
1. Select a text
2. Press Ctrl-k
3. Type in the hyperlink
4. Done.
In case of CP.
1. You type in the hyperlink.
2. Select the hyperlink.
3. Click [link] or link[^]
4. A piece of text is hilighted, type over or keep as it is.
Now where is the difficult part or the extention part?
-prakash
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Hi CP Support Team,
Very often this week, I had been encountering this message.
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Oops!
Hear that crunching sound? Something just broke.
Why did this happen?
Because either we screwed up in a way that wasn't immediately obvious until now, or because the ASP engine running this site has just rolled over and died, or because the site is simply having a bad hair day.
Options
Try and do whatever you did again. Try again.
Open the CodeProject home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Sure, the information you need is probably on this page, but you never know your luck in a big city.
Pray, curse, or sacrifice burnt offerings, then see 1.
The Error
The Page: : /info/error500.asp
The Time: : Saturday, October 01, 2005, 8:25:11 AM
The Server: : Web7
The Error No. : 0. That's right. The server thinks there was an error but now can't remember it. Perfect.
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As a webuser it is the same AirTel Broadband Connection and IE 6.0 browser. Any webserver changes, sessionstate which seems to create this server errors in CP.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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This is the ASP engine on our servers dying due to load. We're currently working to upgrade to IIS6 on 2003 but we have code that works fine on 2000, but dies on 2003. We're working as hard as we can to get past this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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* Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01F4)
Variable is undefined: 'WriteFormSubjectMsgTypeArea'
/script/comments/admin_modify.asp, line 105
* Page:
GET /script/comments/admin_modify.asp
it happens all the time when modify link is cliicked.
-prakash
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All fixed - thanks for that
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris,
Is there anyway to add the do not post programming questions to just above the Submit / Preview buttons?
i.e.
[] Notify Me by e-mail if someone answers this message<br />
<br />
"Please do NOT post programming questions or ads to this forum."<br />
"For programming help please try the Forums."<br />
<br />
[Submit] [Preview]
I don't know if it would help or not but worth a shot?
DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
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Hello!
One improvement to the site would be that if I login on a article page I will return on the same page after login! Now I wind up at the frontpage and have to find the article again.
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meanwhile, press back key twice and press F5 or refresh.
now you are logged in and at the article that you were reading.
-prakash
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It would be great if CP start a exclusive article section which discuss upcomming computing technologies like AI and Neural Networks.
Sreejith Nair
[ My Articles ]
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I guess they come under Algorithms
-prakash
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Where has the CodeProject affiliates page gone please?
I would be grateful if you could please forward me the link.
Thank you.
Ami
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After changing the timestamp showing when the message was inserted by putting the ellapsed time since now, shouldn't be interesting to do the same with the message that appears at the top of every forum?
* Forums in bold have new messages since 6:04 Monday 26th September, 2005
Marc Soleda.
... she said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this... Tunnel of Love, Dire Straits.
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I know there is already a size difference between <H2> and <H3> but I would suggest adding italic to the <H3> tag as well. This would help to further differentiate it from the <H2> tag.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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Apologies in advance if this isn't the correct forum to post this.
I attempted to create an account yesterday (Sept 22nd) which appears to be in some state of limbo. I never recieved an confirmation e-mail saying the account was created, yet any attempts to create a newer account using the same username/e-mail generates the "...the name/e-mail is already being used by someone else" error. I'm unable to login using the password I provided, and I never recieve any e-mails from the "I forgot my password" page.
I created another account today so I could post this message. Initially I provided a name, But when I went back to edit my account, the "Name" field was blank. I didn't think anything of it until I tried to post. When I tried to submit a post, the site would come back with an error saying my login name (blank) and the name field on the "New Message" page ("mzuber") had to match. So, I removed the name I provided and resubmitted. The site then complains that blank values are not accepted!
Aaarrrrrggh!
So, in the end I resorted to using an account from www.bugmenot.com in order to post. Now that I have a "voice", is there an administrator I can e-mail to delete those two accounts?
Thanks in advance,
-Me
-- modified at 11:32 Friday 23rd September, 2005
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