The changes are coming thick and fast.
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Yusuf wrote:
So, if a post got enough 'bad Q' does it gets purged?
You may notice that I didn't mark this post as a Question. ;)
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How many people have noticed the new options in the forum questions? If there's a question there's now a Good question, Bad question choice (along with the usual Spam / Abuse choice). Nice.
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Awesomeness personified! :D
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How many people have noticed the new options in the forum questions? If there's a question there's now a Good question, Bad question choice (along with the usual Spam / Abuse choice). Nice.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Yes, there's now a Retry button on Cphog post failures. :) But, it's showing off and won't let any posts post.
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Yes, there's now a Retry button on Cphog post failures. :) But, it's showing off and won't let any posts post.
There is? We didn't add that... :~ [Update] Uh. Yeah, nevermind. Josh did...back in February.;P
Last modified: 2mins after originally posted -- Sometimes I should probably check before I speak...
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How many people have noticed the new options in the forum questions? If there's a question there's now a Good question, Bad question choice (along with the usual Spam / Abuse choice). Nice.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Hadn't noticed till you pointed it out!
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There is? We didn't add that... :~ [Update] Uh. Yeah, nevermind. Josh did...back in February.;P
Last modified: 2mins after originally posted -- Sometimes I should probably check before I speak...
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:-O A little broken though - gimme 2 secs... There are at least 3 other functionality changes masquerading as eye candy you've yet to spot.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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modified on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:29 PM
Chris Maunder wrote:
3 other functionality changes masquerading as eye candy you've yet to spot
OK, the alt text for the "good" icon being "bad" is an interesting feature. Can we say that at this one point, through the skin of slick usability we see the foul and rotten heart of a madman who is determined to drive the world crazy? :D
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How many people have noticed the new options in the forum questions? If there's a question there's now a Good question, Bad question choice (along with the usual Spam / Abuse choice). Nice.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
I noticed the 1-to-5 scale has been replaced by a bad/good choice, and I don't likt it a bit. It makes it impossible for me to express my opinion except for the most extreme cases; I rarely voted 3, but used 2 and 4 rather often, followed by a lot of 1's and many many 5's. But all of this has disappeared, a black/white spectrum is all that remains, so I've decided I will stop using the voting system alltogether; maybe I will occassionally add a reply with just a digit, serving no purpose in the official stuff but what the heck. I don't do polls if I don't like the questions or the allowable answers, and this applies here. This is like telling a true democracy that they suddenly must do with just democrats and republicans, a big step in the wrong direction. What is next? a weekly poll with only two choices? :mad:
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I noticed the 1-to-5 scale has been replaced by a bad/good choice, and I don't likt it a bit. It makes it impossible for me to express my opinion except for the most extreme cases; I rarely voted 3, but used 2 and 4 rather often, followed by a lot of 1's and many many 5's. But all of this has disappeared, a black/white spectrum is all that remains, so I've decided I will stop using the voting system alltogether; maybe I will occassionally add a reply with just a digit, serving no purpose in the official stuff but what the heck. I don't do polls if I don't like the questions or the allowable answers, and this applies here. This is like telling a true democracy that they suddenly must do with just democrats and republicans, a big step in the wrong direction. What is next? a weekly poll with only two choices? :mad:
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You do what suits you Luc, but the purpose of the Good/Bad is to highlight those questions that are well posed or not worthy of answer, and to highlight those answers that are a good answer, and those answers clearly of no help. The simplification is only for questions and answers - all other posts such as comments, news and jokes allow the full range of subjective emotions.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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You do what suits you Luc, but the purpose of the Good/Bad is to highlight those questions that are well posed or not worthy of answer, and to highlight those answers that are a good answer, and those answers clearly of no help. The simplification is only for questions and answers - all other posts such as comments, news and jokes allow the full range of subjective emotions.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
only for questions and answers
yes, in the mean time I noticed it wasn't the new approach everywhere.
Chris Maunder wrote:
The simplification is
:confused: IMO people who can't or don't like to judge on a 1-to-5 scale might better not be involved in software development; furthermore the resulting score still is numeric on that same 1-to-5 scale, so the input now is null/good/bad and the output is any number in 1-to-5. That does not look like a simplification; and it is not consistent, articles and some message types use the 1-to-5 scale for both input and output. The original was simpler, and to my liking; I guess it had its limitations, but I don't think they got addressed by this modification; I fail to see an improvement with this change. However I slightly softened my sig. still hoping we soon revert to the previous situation. :)
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Chris Maunder wrote:
3 other functionality changes masquerading as eye candy you've yet to spot
OK, the alt text for the "good" icon being "bad" is an interesting feature. Can we say that at this one point, through the skin of slick usability we see the foul and rotten heart of a madman who is determined to drive the world crazy? :D
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
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist -
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Chris Maunder wrote:
only for questions and answers
yes, in the mean time I noticed it wasn't the new approach everywhere.
Chris Maunder wrote:
The simplification is
:confused: IMO people who can't or don't like to judge on a 1-to-5 scale might better not be involved in software development; furthermore the resulting score still is numeric on that same 1-to-5 scale, so the input now is null/good/bad and the output is any number in 1-to-5. That does not look like a simplification; and it is not consistent, articles and some message types use the 1-to-5 scale for both input and output. The original was simpler, and to my liking; I guess it had its limitations, but I don't think they got addressed by this modification; I fail to see an improvement with this change. However I slightly softened my sig. still hoping we soon revert to the previous situation. :)
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