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My father says of driving: "If the guy behind me can make it through the light, I can too."
Hmm.. maybe a community delete button, where if five people who regularly post vote to kill a thread it is deleted...
:-P
Let the chaff fall through.
My father says of driving: "If the guy behind me can make it through the light, I can too."
Hmm.. maybe a community delete button, where if five people who regularly post vote to kill a thread it is deleted...
:-P
Let the chaff fall through.
Hi guys, I've been working on some of the suggestions and bugs reported recently.
Current deletion limits prevent some kinds of abuses.
Regarding karma, for the time being I have included the number of messages posted by each user - just to test it. Personally I like to see just the user name, but I'm not against adding some community details. What do others think about it?
Done. And the formatting error with "code" segments you reported has been fixed.
Now, clicking on the "new!" badge clears the flag for the topic (I hope this improves your monday efficiency, Faldrax).
URLs written on messages are activated as hyperlinks if the user who wrote it has been active in the boards at least for some days.
URLs in forums are a delicate issue. I think that showing the full url instead of a title helps prevent certain types of abuses.
Fixed.
I'm with Duoas; The way it is now you have the option: middle click or press CTRL when clicking for a new window, simple click for same window. If a new window is forced, there is no option for the user.
Very little things are banned automatically on these forums (btw, have you noticed how recently there are no more topics with "help" in the title?). I agree there might be too many single-posters that leave a message unreplied and never come back, but I'm not sure this is a solution.
I have just added a "report" button that should appear at the bottom of each topic for active registered users. Click it if you think it should be deleted.
Thanks for your suggestions, guys - they are very helpful!
9. Post deletion after a reply. ;) 10. Topic deletion. 11. Karma levels (every day you visit the boards, you gain a point...points allow access to higher-level boards...etc. Just call it something else, I don't want a lawsuit from GameFAQs.) |
Current deletion limits prevent some kinds of abuses.
Regarding karma, for the time being I have included the number of messages posted by each user - just to test it. Personally I like to see just the user name, but I'm not against adding some community details. What do others think about it?
I would like to see the teletype format (or some other) not eat multiple white spaces |
Done. And the formatting error with "code" segments you reported has been fixed.
What I'd like to be able to do is glance at the forum, mark a number as 'read' (IE not new) then look at the others through the morning |
Now, clicking on the "new!" badge clears the flag for the topic (I hope this improves your monday efficiency, Faldrax).
A url tag would be very useful |
URLs written on messages are activated as hyperlinks if the user who wrote it has been active in the boards at least for some days.
URLs in forums are a delicate issue. I think that showing the full url instead of a title helps prevent certain types of abuses.
There is a small glitch in the current handling of URLs, if you put a URL within say a superscript tag, it includes the closing tag in the URL and dose not close the tag... |
Fixed.
While I think about it, I would prefer that a new window/tab be opened when you click on a link rather than open the link in the current window, what do others think? |
I'm with Duoas; The way it is now you have the option: middle click or press CTRL when clicking for a new window, simple click for same window. If a new window is forced, there is no option for the user.
I'd like there to be a ban on email addresses/@ symbol when creating a new post (not in jobs though). Only after someone has replied is it allowed. |
Very little things are banned automatically on these forums (btw, have you noticed how recently there are no more topics with "help" in the title?). I agree there might be too many single-posters that leave a message unreplied and never come back, but I'm not sure this is a solution.
Hmm.. maybe a community delete button, where if five people who regularly post vote to kill a thread it is deleted... |
I have just added a "report" button that should appear at the bottom of each topic for active registered users. Click it if you think it should be deleted.
Thanks for your suggestions, guys - they are very helpful!
Heh heh heh, you know I was joking about the community police thing, right? That said, I do like the idea of a report bad post button for handling abuses (like spam bots and the like).
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the "karma" idea. I know that there are some forums where it seems to work very well (like over at DaniWeb). There are also forums where I think it produces some abuses (forums left unnamed). But in any case, all it means to me is extra buttons to twiddle with.
The two things that initially attracted me to this forum (and that continue to please me) are:
1 - it is simple and elegant, and blazingly fast
2 - everyone has the same voice -- it is much less intimidating to new users than forums where people have 30+billion points and all kinds of little decorations next to their names.
I know I tend to post a lot, and that my advice is usually considered pretty carefully, but I do make mistakes, and I like to be able to post without bringing that kind of baggage against some poor sap who hasn't been eating and breathing this stuff for the past 20+ years like I have has.
As an educator, I prefer people to think about the answers given them and even come up with better answers themselves. Just because I do something one way doesn't mean it is the only way it can be done -- or even the best way.
My $0.02.
Oh yeah, one thing that would be nice is a list block:
[list=1]
[*]first item
[*]second item
[/list]
and
[list]
[*]a bullet
[*]another bullet
[/list]
twicker, you own this forum, right? I thought for sure you had made more posts than that...
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the "karma" idea. I know that there are some forums where it seems to work very well (like over at DaniWeb). There are also forums where I think it produces some abuses (forums left unnamed). But in any case, all it means to me is extra buttons to twiddle with.
The two things that initially attracted me to this forum (and that continue to please me) are:
1 - it is simple and elegant, and blazingly fast
2 - everyone has the same voice -- it is much less intimidating to new users than forums where people have 30+billion points and all kinds of little decorations next to their names.
I know I tend to post a lot, and that my advice is usually considered pretty carefully, but I do make mistakes, and I like to be able to post without bringing that kind of baggage against some poor sap who hasn't been eating and breathing this stuff for the past 20+ years like I have has.
As an educator, I prefer people to think about the answers given them and even come up with better answers themselves. Just because I do something one way doesn't mean it is the only way it can be done -- or even the best way.
My $0.02.
Oh yeah, one thing that would be nice is a list block:
[list=1]
[*]first item
[*]second item
[/list]
and
[list]
[*]a bullet
[*]another bullet
[/list]
twicker, you own this forum, right? I thought for sure you had made more posts than that...
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Twicker, more excellent changes - I was out on Monday, so had an even larger selection of 'new' posts than normal this week - saved a lot of time:-)
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Without meaning to sound rude, Is the sites search facility just a basic one, or have I missed somthing?
I tried to find a post where I mentioned 'code complete' and ended up going out to Google (via the link at the bottom of the search result page). It is not a problem I just want to make sure I was not missing some search syntax or trick to do a multi word search.
I tried to find a post where I mentioned 'code complete' and ended up going out to Google (via the link at the bottom of the search result page). It is not a problem I just want to make sure I was not missing some search syntax or trick to do a multi word search.
12. A special board accessible by regular users (y'know, about 100 posts) and can be totally off topic (okay, maybe not). When a person tries to access it w/o being logged in or w/too few posts, access will be denied.
13. Signatures. 'Nuff said. Like:
---
DOWN WITH DVORAK
13. Signatures. 'Nuff said. Like:
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DOWN WITH DVORAK
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Many people copy-paste code from VC++ that uses tabs. If you don't change the tabs with spaces then it looks really wierd because the tabs are like 16 spaces.
It would be great if you could reduce them to 3-4.
It would be great if you could reduce them to 3-4.
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QWERTYman wrote:
I can't see the point in a private area, the lounge is an off toppic area.
QWERTYman wrote:
-1, I like the fact that the site is not cluttered with Signatures and Avitars....
| 12. A special board accessible by regular users (y'know, about 100 posts) and can be totally off topic (okay, maybe not). When a person tries to access it w/o being logged in or w/too few posts, access will be denied. |
I can't see the point in a private area, the lounge is an off toppic area.
QWERTYman wrote:
| 13. Signatures. 'Nuff said. Like: --- DOWN WITH DVORAK |
-1, I like the fact that the site is not cluttered with Signatures and Avitars....
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One thing I noticed a while back, I can't remember which site it was, but it allowed people to effectively acknowledge who gave them the best or most useful response.
It worked by each post having a good, indifferent and bad button. The selection always defaulted to indifferent.
Everyone could select a button against a post, (you couldn't vote for your own obviously). Most of the time they were left at indifferent but occasionally someone would click good or bad. Indifferent scores were ignored. Each poster had a number of posts, number of bads and number of goods against their name.
I can see upsides and down sides to this. An obvious upside is that people who have given the higher number or highest percentage of useful responses can be distinguished against those that don't provide effective solutions.
The down side is that this is dependent of people voting and it is open to abuse, it can act as being intimidating, posting against someone with a high 'good' score, and it causes added complexity.
Personally I'm sitting on the fence, I don't have a preference one way or the other.
However, I've posted this because someone may feel it is worth exploring
It worked by each post having a good, indifferent and bad button. The selection always defaulted to indifferent.
Everyone could select a button against a post, (you couldn't vote for your own obviously). Most of the time they were left at indifferent but occasionally someone would click good or bad. Indifferent scores were ignored. Each poster had a number of posts, number of bads and number of goods against their name.
I can see upsides and down sides to this. An obvious upside is that people who have given the higher number or highest percentage of useful responses can be distinguished against those that don't provide effective solutions.
The down side is that this is dependent of people voting and it is open to abuse, it can act as being intimidating, posting against someone with a high 'good' score, and it causes added complexity.
Personally I'm sitting on the fence, I don't have a preference one way or the other.
However, I've posted this because someone may feel it is worth exploring
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I'm not sure that I like the idea of ratings, but a simple 'Solved' button may be a nice idea. The OP could simply click on the buttons corresponding to the post(s) that solved there problem then those post could be highlighted for future readers with the same problem. An icon could also be put in the title to indicate a solved post.
Yes. Again I object to power points/karma/HP/whatever.
But I love the "Solved" idea.
Something that seems to happen alarmingly often is posters spamming multiple forums with the same question. I can't quite figure that out, but I wonder if it would be possible if pressing "Submit" would check to see if the OP had just recently posted with the same title in another forum and direct him to a page that kindly asks him not to do that?
But I love the "Solved" idea.
Something that seems to happen alarmingly often is posters spamming multiple forums with the same question. I can't quite figure that out, but I wonder if it would be possible if pressing "Submit" would check to see if the OP had just recently posted with the same title in another forum and direct him to a page that kindly asks him not to do that?
I'd also like to be able to report people to have their account banned, for spamming other peoples topics with useless crap etc.
^YES!
The idea of HP/karma kinda sucks, now that I think about it, but at least seeing the post amounts helps root out the experienced from the inexperienced.
Reporting would be VERY useful.
Also, there should be an option for people to flag an individual post as off topic. Case in point:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/1988/page3.html
Go down a bit to metalmop's posts. How does that remotely relate to "Console Closing Down"?
The idea of HP/karma kinda sucks, now that I think about it, but at least seeing the post amounts helps root out the experienced from the inexperienced.
Reporting would be VERY useful.
Also, there should be an option for people to flag an individual post as off topic. Case in point:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/1988/page3.html
Go down a bit to metalmop's posts. How does that remotely relate to "Console Closing Down"?
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I also think mealmop has created a new user. Landonmkelsey. Same attitude, posts off topic snippets of code (incorrectly) without explanation.
Interesting how Landonmkesley joined as the community heated up against metalmop, i.e. TODAY.
However much any one particular users posts may be annoying/off topic/irrelevant, I don't think reporting/banning etc is going to solve anything.
If someone is banned, they will just create a new user and it all starts again. In an extreme example you would get people ganging up on bad users and I can see it all getting out of hand with moderators being needed on the forums etc.
The easiest way is just do a single post to say what you think and leave it, ignore it. If someone tries to hijack a thread, mention it in passing but go back to the main topic in the same post. Posting something that doesn't contribute to the main thread topic, and just has a go at the off topic post, is just adding to the off-topic discussion.
If someone is ignored, they'll go away bored. If you fight back and start an argument then they will stay for the fight, and the focus will move away from code and into user politics.
I don't think anyone would want that.
If someone is banned, they will just create a new user and it all starts again. In an extreme example you would get people ganging up on bad users and I can see it all getting out of hand with moderators being needed on the forums etc.
The easiest way is just do a single post to say what you think and leave it, ignore it. If someone tries to hijack a thread, mention it in passing but go back to the main topic in the same post. Posting something that doesn't contribute to the main thread topic, and just has a go at the off topic post, is just adding to the off-topic discussion.
If someone is ignored, they'll go away bored. If you fight back and start an argument then they will stay for the fight, and the focus will move away from code and into user politics.
I don't think anyone would want that.
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Zaita wrote:
You can do this now if you really want, via the contact us link at the bottom of the page. However I would encourage a fair amount of tolerance before making such a request. Reply to a first offender off-line (if possible). There is no need of public humiliation for someone who may have made an honest mistake.
On a different note; It would be better all round if we could explain why we are referring members to the How To: Ask Questions The Smart Way article, rather than just paste a link to it. (yes I do include myself in that WE).
| I'd also like to be able to report people to have their account banned, for spamming other peoples topics with useless crap etc. |
You can do this now if you really want, via the contact us link at the bottom of the page. However I would encourage a fair amount of tolerance before making such a request. Reply to a first offender off-line (if possible). There is no need of public humiliation for someone who may have made an honest mistake.
On a different note; It would be better all round if we could explain why we are referring members to the How To: Ask Questions The Smart Way article, rather than just paste a link to it. (yes I do include myself in that WE).