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Well for a starter:
For lazing about and discussing anything in a software developer's life that takes your fancy. It invites us to ask anything we fancy. Which would include programming questions. It would seem extra perfect if you're not really sure how to categorize your question.
And then it continues with:
The Lounge is rated PG ... Oops, an EULA.
Here you lost 98% of the readers.
So my suggestion would be a bit of a reordering:
For lazing about and discussing anything in a software developer's life that takes your fancy except programming questions.
Technical discussions are encouraged, but if you have a programming question click here.
The Lounge is rated PG. If you're about to post something you wouldn't want your kid sister to read then don't post it. No flame wars, no abusive conduct, no programming questions and please don't post ads.
Question is how much difference it'll make, if any?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Question is how much difference it'll make, if any?
We'll find out.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Maybe I am the different guy here, but is this really an issue ? How annoying is it to simply answer "Go get ask your question in Q&A, you're wrong here" and that would be it ...? It is not as if the majority of lounge posts were programming questions. It already happened to me to ask a question on a wrong forum somewhere, and I'd been pissed to read ten answers stating "Learn to read","RTFM","Can't you read the post above first" etc...
Seriously, I work in the country of order and everything-must-be-straight, but even here we would not have such a behavior towards someone doing something wrong...
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Gotta to agree with you on "The learn to read" etc stuff.
I'm actually embarrassed when people post that.
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I doubt the rules-sticky is really the cause as I doubt the people who post the offending items even read it. I think we'd be better off with another type of report to add to the existing abuse &spam ones- reporting it as beining in the wrong place, this won't necessarily count against the OP, but will flag to admins that they should consider moving it.
I like the warning popup BTW.
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I think the time has come for a little brush up of the role icons. To me, they somehow look both similar and inconsistent. Yes, yes, t'is possible.
The protector or admin 'bobs' are quite fine, whereas the new professional icon seems rather ... gross compared to them (the orange is deeper, there is a black outline).
I think the normal user icon is getting too ... web 1.0-ish.
The mvp is really close to the protector, maybe too close.
Not that this is of first importance, I know... Maybe an idea for a contest ?
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Personally I would prefer BOB in business casual as icon for professional
cheers,
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Looks like your wish has been fullfilled.
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Toga! Toga! ToooooGAAAAAA!
I like the mentor one....
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What is a mentor, again ?
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I think it's like being the milk monitor at school. 
It turns out mentors help others create new articles - Sauce[^] I thought I got the badge as I tend to try to help people get their question right rather than the then more frequent "This question is carp - report/delete" approach.
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Keith Barrow wrote: then more frequent "This question is carp - report/delete" approach.
So you did not want the MVP status ?
I am already out, don't throw stones.
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Rage wrote: So you did not want the MVP status ?
I'd get a perverse sense of satisfaction out of it - if I'd been awarded it I'd assume it wasn't worth having. Not that it's ever likely, I write too few articles (which really count) and refuse to engage he who should not be named.
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You're like Groucho Marx: I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have noticed that all the Latest best picks are actually old articles. It's even funny to see the Best November 2014 article in the list of best picks, having been "first posted" on 23 Jan 2015. How an article published in 2015 could win a 2014 competition?
I already saw that situation in the past, but in my opinion that bug is purposely being abused, as only the 5th article in the latest best picks is actually new.
What bothers me the most is that I wanted to know what are the real latest best picks to take a look at them!
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It's not what you think it is. Look at the revisions. They go back to 5-Nov-14. The real bug is the First Posted On date is wrong!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I know that the revisions go back. Yet, the First Posted is wrong, and they are only appearing as latest best picks because of that.
If I update one of my articles that has lots of votes but First Posted is not changed, it doesn't have any change of entering the latest best picks. After all, it is not new.
So, it seems that they discovered how to update the "First posted". So, being a "new" article with hundreds of votes (that are kept from the past), it goes to the latest best picks.
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Your original post didn't make that clear (to me at least), which is why I posted my message.
@Chris-Maunder or @Sean-Ewington need to look into this ASAP!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Maybe not explicitly but what do you understand by "Mix between site bug and users abuse" and by this:
"...in my opinion that bug is purposely being abused, as only the 5th article in the latest best picks is actually new."
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The articles in question are articles that were deleted and then republished. An article's "posted" date is the date at which it becomes publicly available. If an article is deleted then republished we set the "publicly available" date as the date it was republished.
An author, for various reasons, decided to remove all their articles, and then decided to republish all their articles.
I'll let the voters decide on the articles in question.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris, I am not sure if we are seeing the same situation.
I already deleted an article and when I published it again, it came with 0 votes and no previous history. But this was a long time ago, so I don't know if things changed.
Yet, what bothers me is that any article that already has votes and is republished immediately becomes the "Latest Best Pick" because it is seen as new by the system, yet full of votes that were got before the article was republished. It seems that it is not considering only the new votes since it was republished, so, an article that got hundreds of votes during years, if it is republished, becomes the "Best Pick" because it has hundreds of votes, while a new article, very good, with 50 votes in a single day, will stay at second... or fifth, when there are too many articles in that situation.
And, if it was to be able to appear in the latest best picks, I believe that any update to an article should be allowed to appear there too.
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That's not my main problem, it is that they have a relatively high rating, but are horrible articles. They flourish with mistakes and bad practice advice. If that's how futile the voting system is, then we might as well skip the votes all together, in my mind.
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There is a new procedure in place (for testing, I think) to try and re-jig this. If you can point me at the bad practice articles, I'd be pleased to give it a try.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This one was pretty bad:
Basic C# OOP Concept[^]
I did notice that the rating went down from 4.01 to 3.91 when I voted.
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I knocked it down another 0.1 as well...
I've tried the new reporting system, and I'll see what happens.
Still, at least the author has 70 friends. Or 70 sock puppets...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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