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I don't believe I said you cannot find a good article among the low rated ones.
The purpose of a search facility is to help users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible. My premise is that higher rated articles are, on the whole, more useful than lower rated articles. You also believe this to some degree when you say "Rating is not always proportionate to the quality of the article."
If my goal was to read all of the articles for a specific result set in the hope of finding the best article for me, then not filtering on rating may make sense. However, since I'm simply looking for the first article that suits my needs, it stands to reason that looking at the higher rated articles first will get me to that article that suits my needs much faster.
Thanks,
Kevin
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yeap, I agree..
If I remeber it correctly, the feature you are looking for was there some time back,
now it is not..
L.W.C. Nirosh,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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But after spending a day in C++/MFC, C#, C++/CLI, Web Development forums I realized only 100 of our 3.5 million users would use it so ..... never mind. [end-rant] ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
led mike
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What's to design? Just put everything on your button.Click event and you're all set!
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Mackster211 wrote: put everything on your button.Click event
What a PERFECT design. 
led mike
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I thought so!  Before we get arrested by the sarcasm police...
It has been suggested in other postings that the criteria for getting a new forum is based on the number of postings. I'll go one further and suggest it's also based on the number of replies and discussion to those postings.
Since I'm a self-professed dabler, I'll take a stab at asking a coherent design question (one that I'm actually looking for an answer for). Now, if only I can decide where to post it...
Cheers,
Kevin
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I always reply to design questions when I see them. They are very rare however. Almost as rare as the bunny-o-death in the "The Search for the Holy Grail" - Monty Python
Ususally someone posts a question like "how do I get access to controls in another form" or some such garbage and I provide a link to Wikipedia MVC page. But some other hacker replies with having a variable of the "other" form or some such garbage and it's off to the "Technical Debt" races at that point. 
</rant>
led mike
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its silly to list all the replies directly under each topic in the forums. major space waster
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Instead, we should... list them elsewhere? Like, embedded in random articles? Or, on another site altogether?
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- C hris L osinger, Online Poker Players?
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Oh yes! A treasure hunt across the internet to find replies to a particular post. With a prize for finding the most per week.
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Shog9 wrote: we should... list them elsewhere? Like, embedded in random articles? Or, on another site altogether?
hmm that doesnt seem like a very good idea to me. instead, maybe have something like this...
thread one - some topic
thread two - some other topic
thread three - another topic
one after the other. clicking on them will load a new page or pop open a new tab. whatever.
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We have that. At the top of each forum, there's a little combo box labeled "view". Open it and select "Thread View", then click the Set Options button.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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The set your format options to "Thread View"
Personally, I like the way the forums work by default - Much better than anywhere else I've seen.
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xalspaero wrote: major space waster
I served under him in the war you know. Later on he got married and named one of his kids, time. Do you know him?
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
Nobody likes jerks. [espeir]
The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson]
I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]
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Now, THAT'S FUNNY. ROFLMAO!!!
John P.
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I grew up with a kid named space. I can't believe his parents did that to him.
Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you.
-Chris Maunder
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This iste is great, but it is missing a few things. I have been a member for over 3 years, and it still has no ASM-16, ASM-32, Java, or J# sections. I'd have a lot to contribute to the ASM sections if they existed, as would many other programmers. I believe also that it would speed up the area of OS Developement, which is another section that should be implimented. Oh, and how about aprogramming / webdesign / game design contest once in a while?
Thank you for your time ...
[p.s.] - I modifified this today to save what is left of my dignity. Aparently my spelling is somewhat under par in the wee hours of the morning ... However I am glad that so many of responded to my thoughts on starting an Assembly "sectioon" .. LoL ...
-- modified at 17:05 Wednesday 25th October, 2006
-- modified at 17:08 Wednesday 25th October, 2006
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digitalmythology wrote: This iste is great, but it is missing a few things. I have been a member for over 3 years, and it still has no ASM-16, ASM-32, Java, or J# sections. I'd have a lot to contribute to the ASM sections if they existed, as would many other programmers. I believe also that it would speed up the area of OS Developement, which is another section that should be implimented. Oh, and how about aprogramming / webdesign / game design contest once in a while?
If enough articles on a subject are submitted, then I'm sure a new section would be created.
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digitalmythology wrote: Java, or J# sections.
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digitalmythology wrote: I'd have a lot to contribute to the ASM sections if they existed,
If you search CP, there are a number of ASM articles. Just not enough to justify (or so it would seem) their own category. You can change that; I would be interested in an article or two on ASM.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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I have been wondering, why doesn't CodeProject have a Java or J# forum? What about all those Java programmers out there, I think if CP added a forum for them, they would get a lot more site traffic.
And another idea, how about an Easter Egg forum? A place people can submit Easter Eggs that they have found. It's not any different than the Subtle Bugs forum. Right?
Well, that's just something that I would like to see on CP.
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There is a java forum. It's hidden and only gets a handful of posts per month. It's hidden because CP is an MS centric site and java's a hostile technology. There are at most 2 J# programms in the world (1 is the MS J# compiler test author), so there's no point to a J# forum because it would go totally unused. 
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What's the point of a Java forum then if it's hidden?
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UltraCoder wrote: What's the point of a Java forum then if it's hidden?
The forum got removed years ago because of lack of use. It isn't accessible by any of the menus, but if you know the forumid then you can still get to it. I don't think of it as hidden, but just waiting in the recycle bin.
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Well, it's not like the Collaboration / Testing forum gets swarmed with usage. It only has like 10 posts. That forum should be removed if you ask me!
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