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Hi,
Just observed when you delete a message, the subject and the content are not actually wiped out but they are respectively string replaced with ('Msg Deleted', and Modified string).
This would'nt be a friendlier one since it would eat up some threads in 'Threaded View' of the forum. Rather, I would suggest the following:
(*)If the thread in question has no child threads, delete it.
(*)If the thread has large number (more than a specified configuration entry) of replies elicited to it, then lock it from deletion.
(*)In case of threads with deletion, you can try to check whether any votes are recorded and with some administrator approval.
Is'nt it?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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I've noticed that the readability of postings on this wonderful site seems to have trended downward lately... and I wonder if any other members feel the same way.
I don't want to come across as elitist, but there's a certain threshold of spelling, grammar and vocabulary errors that, when exceeded, simply make me want to stop reading an article. That threshold seems to be crossed a lot more than it used to on The Code Project. Some of it may be due to an increase in the number of members for whom English is a second or third language; I also suspect that the language skills of native English speakers have declined considerably, at least as far as reading and writing good prose is concerned. Kids growing up in a environment of constant cell-phone prattle and television babble probably see little rewards in mastering the written word.
I don't have any pat solutions for this. Obviously people that write badly can still have good ideas and information to share, and we would all suffer if that sharing was to stop. And I don't mean to sound condescending to non-native English speakers; very much the contrary, in fact. I have great admiration for those who speak more than one language. I, like too many Americans, am mono-lingual, and I'm not proud of it.
So again, I have no easy fixes... I doubt if the people who sacrifice their time keeping The Code Project running can afford the resources to re-write, edit, or even proofread submissions. I'm just wondering if anyone else is bothered by this trend.
Regards,
John Bendiksen
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Absolutely. We're still waiting on the details though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yikes! My status is going backwards. Should I change my UID to Alice?
"Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable." -- Jamake Highwater
Toasty0.com
My Grandkids
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Ok, in the lounge I'm unknown...
"Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable." -- Jamake Highwater
Toasty0.com
My Grandkids
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Toasty0 wrote:
Ok, in the lounge I'm unknown
[Sarcasm]
Your not unknown you’re a legend.
[/Sarcasm]
Sorry just to temping 
DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
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When,
A message that I posted is rated.
Article that I posted is rated.
ofcource the email notification will also contain who rated it!
-prakash
-- modified at 13:05 Wednesday 5th October, 2005
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-prakash
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But I guess Chris did not like the idea coz this would probably load his email server.
-prakash
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So am i missing something, or has the forum search not been updated since August?
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Full text indexing is enabled. Change tracking is on. An incremental update was done just in case.
A large boot will be applied tomorrow morning.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
A large boot will be applied tomorrow morning.
I'm picturing the Simpsons episode where Bart goes to Oz is sentenced to a booting. Now I'm picturing you doing the same to the server. Now I'm just creeped out and need to try a different cold medicine. 
--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP 
LINKS~! Ericahist | 1ClickPicGrabber | NEW~! CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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With the plythora (is that even remotely correct on spelling???) of AJAX related articles being posted, maybe CP should add a special section in for it as a sub-category under ASP.NET. AJAX is a great concept, and it'd be nice to see everything grouped together nicely like so much else on this site.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Taekwondo Yi (2nd) Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
-- modified by Ed. at 12:42 Monday 3rd October, 2005
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Great idea.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Jamie Nordmeyer wrote:
With the plythora...
Plethora.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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and purpose is...?
-prakash
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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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