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A follow-on idea: what about tallying up the votes and displaying the top 5 most popular & least popular members based on votes (forums only not articles).
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza ~ Web SQL Utility - asp.net app to query Access, SQL server, MySQL. Stores history, favourites.
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Maybe each user's profile could show a list of the top 10 people who've given him the highest post votes (averaged)  [this list is only visible to him].
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Wont it be nice to have a "Navigation" link on the Quick-Access-panel that's displayed on the lounge? For example :
[Panel Navigation^]So that we can keep browsing for all the message of the same type there.
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I mistakenly posted at lounge 
Now i'm at right place
In CP if I take Lounge forum, it is showing some latest post from Subtle Bugs
Like follows.
(1)Understanding the Problem
(1)Scanner Initialization Drift
(5)Caution! No sign ahead!
(3)The latest neat thing
(1)Windows Installer BSOD
(1)Data reverting back to old data.
(5)1+1=3
The number of posts and replies in the left hand side is something looks bad for me because on left side we are used to number the items. If put it in the RHS that will be looking better.
What I meant is to display as follows. I think it’s something meaningful and beautiful than the current one. Hope Chris is there
• Understanding the Problem (1)
• Scanner Initialization Drift (1)
• Caution! No sign ahead! (5)
• The latest neat thing (3)
• Windows Installer BSOD (1)
• Data reverting back to old data. (1)
• 1+1=3 (5)
-Sarath.
"Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
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Agreed
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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The Osmosian Order wrote: This would not only discourage the wandering, off-topic posts so common in the forums
Well, even if i didn't like threaded discussions, i'd still be against any change for that reason
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The Osmosian Order wrote: Order or chaos, take your pick. And live with it.
I like a little bit of both in my life. A healthy balance of order and chaos are what life is all about.
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The Osmosian Order wrote: Order or chaos, take your pick. And live with it.
Every day. Order in code, chaos in people.
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Having things as they are is more natural; real conversations evolve and wander. Also sometimes you need to reply to a reply to correct it for example.
Steve
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The Osmosian Order wrote: discourage the wandering, off-topic posts so common in the forums,
Hey. That is one of the best bits of the CP community, how one post can spark off ideas in all different directions. That's how conversations work. The reason the CP community has been so succesfull is because of the conversational style of the forums.
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How about YOU start by not diverting normal questions with talk of Plain English this and Osmosicult that.
Don't make me link you to specific occurances - you know darn well where YOU have taken a simple question totally OT with your responses.
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Group discussions are hierachical, meandering, mutating things. They aren't relational objects. Even a formal business discussion will spliter into different branches.
The forums are designed to reflect the social aspect of a community and not try and represent a theoretical model based on schemas.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The Osmosian Order wrote: re you seriously arguing that a history of the Osmosian Order's parent company, or a discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural principles BELONG under a heading where the word "font" is the only noun?
You have a point there. However, it is certainly possible and not altogether unheard of for users to either change the subject line on subthreads, or begin a new thread (with hyperlinks between it and the originating) when a discussion goes off-topic.
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Real discussions splinter, fork and evolve. For example person “a” poses a specific question to which person “b” replies. Person “b” answers the question but makes a serious mistake in some area unrelated to the original question. The logical course of action if for person “c” to reply to person “b” and correct the mistake. This also provides context. While I agree that if a thread wanders too far from it’s origin for too long it’s less than ideal I feel your “solution” is worse then the problem. No offense intended, but I sometimes wonder if you’re determined to address every problem with a radical solution.
Steve
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You brought that response on yourself after the way you've behaved on this site. I have zero sympathy.
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What's so bad about wandering off threads?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
Linkify! || Fold With Us! || sighist
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But doesn't the same happen with linear boards? You put your reply in OT - totalyl cool, and it gets lost.
What the hirarchy makes easier is to spawn a sub-conversation from there. On linear boards, you often find messages with entangled sub-threads. that's awful to read.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
Linkify! || Fold With Us! || sighist
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The database is already, essentially, in this form. Searching and displaying in flat form is easy, but then you get a completely flat heirachy that doesn't give any indication of the flow, evolution and branching of discussions.
The point of the threaded form is to graphically illustrate the ebb and flow of conversations. We did this on purpose. Everyone has flat heirachical boards but at CodeProject we are more interested in the conversaton than the answer because it's the discussion the illustrates more about the question than the straight answer. You saw this very clearly in the discussions on adding colours to names.
Organising and displaying messages, threads and topics in a way that makes perfect sense and is intuitive and easy to use is really easy. Extending it so it makes perfect sense and is intuitive and easy to use for everyone else is the tricky bit. Saying "the boards should be like this or that" isn't helpful. More useful is "it would be nice if I could view the discussions in this form". Then we can get somewhere.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The Osmosian Order wrote: using a hierarchical structure to model something that isn't really hierarc
It's perfectly hierarchical: the parent makes a statement and its children are replies to that statement. Siblings are all replies to the same query.
Steve
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The Osmosian Order wrote: If "siblings" are all replies to the same query
They do, their shared parent.
The Osmosian Order wrote: only because that's where it was put, not because it logically belongs there
Any system ultimately relies on the poster posting it at the "correct" location. Unless you have a human editor it's always possible for someone to go off topic.
Steve
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