Submission template
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While reviewing many new posted articles, I notice a behavior appearing in the last months: Many lazy writers, may be trying to acquire visibility during their class courses or exams, post almost "null" articles, with attached some unexplained code, (sometimes just submit a code snippet as "article"). They have almost no chance to go published, but I noted the, many times, such "null articles" re-propose the article submission wizard default text with very small changes. Essentially they treat such text not as a "suggestion about what to do" but as a form to be filled in. (And they fill it with the less as possible). I wonder if -after the introduction of the article approving mechanism- such text is still necessary or if it is even better to let the wizard mostly empty. Null articles can be -at that point- automatically discovered (they will have no structure). It will also be nice if the messages posted as comment to low rates will not appear in the author's last posts list (since they have no relation with the "author" activity, but relates with "editing"). Sometime I lost, wile seeking a post of someone about a subject, in the middle of dozens of "My vote for 1", "My vote for 2" etc. which are irrelevant after they have been posted.
2 bugs found. > recompile ... 65534 bugs found. :doh:
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While reviewing many new posted articles, I notice a behavior appearing in the last months: Many lazy writers, may be trying to acquire visibility during their class courses or exams, post almost "null" articles, with attached some unexplained code, (sometimes just submit a code snippet as "article"). They have almost no chance to go published, but I noted the, many times, such "null articles" re-propose the article submission wizard default text with very small changes. Essentially they treat such text not as a "suggestion about what to do" but as a form to be filled in. (And they fill it with the less as possible). I wonder if -after the introduction of the article approving mechanism- such text is still necessary or if it is even better to let the wizard mostly empty. Null articles can be -at that point- automatically discovered (they will have no structure). It will also be nice if the messages posted as comment to low rates will not appear in the author's last posts list (since they have no relation with the "author" activity, but relates with "editing"). Sometime I lost, wile seeking a post of someone about a subject, in the middle of dozens of "My vote for 1", "My vote for 2" etc. which are irrelevant after they have been posted.
2 bugs found. > recompile ... 65534 bugs found. :doh:
Making it blank will solve one issue but introduce others. Personally I feel that provide guidance to the many outweighs the issues caused by the few.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Making it blank will solve one issue but introduce others. Personally I feel that provide guidance to the many outweighs the issues caused by the few.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
you could disable the "make public" facility as long as any one of the boiler plate sentences (or relevant HTML source lines) is still in place; and provide an explicit message box while you're at it. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.
All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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you could disable the "make public" facility as long as any one of the boiler plate sentences (or relevant HTML source lines) is still in place; and provide an explicit message box while you're at it. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.
All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
We already have checks for boiler plate code, but I've tightened them up even more
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP