Improvement of this board system: Code Annotations of other posts
Hi,
I read mostly the C++ Programming forum here and come across a lot of people (mostly beginners) who do not annotate their code with [ code ].
It's not skyrocking hard for me to see which part of the post *should* be [ code ] - blocks. I'd like to be able to annotate the code by myself using some simple drag-and-select or some "edit" button like in a wiki. The changes I made in the other post could be even made available to other readers..
As I see it, the most minimalistic change to the web-site code would be to provide the unencoded raw text the user entered with his post. Of course, the "make annotations available to other users" would require a bit more infrastructure. I could help with the implementation (if the source code to the web page is available, that is ;).
Anyone thought along these lines already and has some plans or ideas or even some code?
Ciao, Imi.
PS: Is this the right place to ask this question? I guess the lounge is the forum category where site infrastructure may "misfit the least" :)
I read mostly the C++ Programming forum here and come across a lot of people (mostly beginners) who do not annotate their code with [ code ].
It's not skyrocking hard for me to see which part of the post *should* be [ code ] - blocks. I'd like to be able to annotate the code by myself using some simple drag-and-select or some "edit" button like in a wiki. The changes I made in the other post could be even made available to other readers..
As I see it, the most minimalistic change to the web-site code would be to provide the unencoded raw text the user entered with his post. Of course, the "make annotations available to other users" would require a bit more infrastructure. I could help with the implementation (if the source code to the web page is available, that is ;).
Anyone thought along these lines already and has some plans or ideas or even some code?
Ciao, Imi.
PS: Is this the right place to ask this question? I guess the lounge is the forum category where site infrastructure may "misfit the least" :)
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Sounds like too much effort to compensate for other people's stupidity/laziness. Personally, when I see a post with more tagless code than I'm willing to head-parse, I just ignore the question or give a guesstimation as to what is wrong.
If it's not a lot of code (like, twenty lines or less) I can read it, if not I tend to say "And who's supposed to read that? Put it in [code] and [/code] tags and indent it, and I'll help you..."
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