Alternate default forms priority
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in the messages Boards, not including the conversation forms, as people answer the questsions, the original message should lower itself in priority and sort onto the other pages. for example Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 A1 A2 Then an answer for Q2 comes in... and the form would look like the following: Q1 Q3 Q2 A3 Q4 A1 A2 This way the unanswered Items would remain on the first pages, so they would recive more attention. ~Jason
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
That's not a very good idea. Sometimes a question is ignored just because it makes no sense or it's obviously somebody trolling - why should these questions remain at the top ad-nauseam. Each forum has a link to show unanswered questions, so you could always use this.
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in the messages Boards, not including the conversation forms, as people answer the questsions, the original message should lower itself in priority and sort onto the other pages. for example Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 A1 A2 Then an answer for Q2 comes in... and the form would look like the following: Q1 Q3 Q2 A3 Q4 A1 A2 This way the unanswered Items would remain on the first pages, so they would recive more attention. ~Jason
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
Unanswered can also mean "bad question". We don't want the front pages to be littered with flotsam and jetsam
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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in the messages Boards, not including the conversation forms, as people answer the questsions, the original message should lower itself in priority and sort onto the other pages. for example Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 A1 A2 Then an answer for Q2 comes in... and the form would look like the following: Q1 Q3 Q2 A3 Q4 A1 A2 This way the unanswered Items would remain on the first pages, so they would recive more attention. ~Jason
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
I don't want things to move around by themselves. I hate it when menus do that, when the notification area does it, when the desktop icons do it. Things should remain where they were. Anyway, after a short while, in your suggestion, either the first page would be filled with crappy questions without answers, and/or people would start adding crappy replies to get rid of unanswered questions... Please just let it fade away the way it works right now. :)
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in the messages Boards, not including the conversation forms, as people answer the questsions, the original message should lower itself in priority and sort onto the other pages. for example Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 A1 A2 Then an answer for Q2 comes in... and the form would look like the following: Q1 Q3 Q2 A3 Q4 A1 A2 This way the unanswered Items would remain on the first pages, so they would recive more attention. ~Jason
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
While I agree with all of you comments, they all have a simliarity of assuming unasnswerd questions are bad. Is that true? What about good questions that just don't get attention?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
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Unanswered can also mean "bad question". We don't want the front pages to be littered with flotsam and jetsam
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Totally agree, however, isn't that why we vote on messages. An additional bussinss logic rule could be that messages with a 3 or less, are downgraded in priority.
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
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That's not a very good idea. Sometimes a question is ignored just because it makes no sense or it's obviously somebody trolling - why should these questions remain at the top ad-nauseam. Each forum has a link to show unanswered questions, so you could always use this.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Then we should vote them away... no?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
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I don't want things to move around by themselves. I hate it when menus do that, when the notification area does it, when the desktop icons do it. Things should remain where they were. Anyway, after a short while, in your suggestion, either the first page would be filled with crappy questions without answers, and/or people would start adding crappy replies to get rid of unanswered questions... Please just let it fade away the way it works right now. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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Don't your post move now, with new ones being added at the top of the forum?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
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Don't your post move now, with new ones being added at the top of the forum?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
I can have my browser scroll and move to the next/previous page, the messages I have read remain in order though, so I will always recognize what I have seen before at a glance. And that is what I insist on having, always and everywhere. If in your proposal you have been reading messages on one page for say 5 minutes, and then ask for the next page, what will you say when some, an indeterminate number of, messages, are from the ones you just read, and those are not necessarily at the top of the new page, but all over the place? no thanks. BTW: you are aware there is a "view unanswered questions button" on top of the pages? :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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While I agree with all of you comments, they all have a simliarity of assuming unasnswerd questions are bad. Is that true? What about good questions that just don't get attention?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
Jason McBurney wrote:
assuming unasnswerd questions are bad. Is that true?
No, they aren't making that assumption at all. There are actually multiple issues here. 1. Posts should always be displayed in the same order, regardless of how many answers a post has. 2. Posts may be unanswered for several reasons: a. The post is just junk and no one wants to give it any more attention. b. The post doesn't make sense. c. The post simply got missed. 3. In your proposal, not only would posts jump around based on the number of answers, but all posts without an answer would always be on the first page. If the desire is to quickly see all of the posts with no answers, there is a "View unanswered questions" option for each forum which does exactly that. Yes, it requires an explicit choice by the reader but it keeps the flow of the forums consistent and moving forward with older posts falling to later pages as new ones are added.
Scott Dorman
Microsoft® MVP - Visual C# | MCPD President - Tampa Bay IASA [Blog][Articles][Forum Guidelines]
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Then we should vote them away... no?
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
Jason McBurney wrote:
Then we should vote them away... no?
No. The ones that get voted away are abuse messages. You can 1 vote them, but they won't be got rid of.
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