Why do they change the type from Article to Tip
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Today I submitted an article. Someone suggested that it is a Tip and not an article. I politely disagreed and said I thought it was an article. A little later I saw that this article was published as a Tip on Code Project. Now this is a very strange thing. If I needed to submit a Tip, I would have submitted a Tip. I did not change the type myself, since I did not want to publish it as a Tip. I would have rather not publish it as a Tip in that case. I think this thing makes no sense. A writer alone should be given the right to decide if they want to publish something as something or not. If the community thinks that something is not worth publishing, it is fine. But totally changing another person's submission without their will is not acceptable. As soon as I saw it appear as a Tip, I deleted it. I am very surprised at this thing. Don't eat my apples if you think they are not tasty. But don't try to turn my apples into oranges because you think I should rather have oranges.
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Today I submitted an article. Someone suggested that it is a Tip and not an article. I politely disagreed and said I thought it was an article. A little later I saw that this article was published as a Tip on Code Project. Now this is a very strange thing. If I needed to submit a Tip, I would have submitted a Tip. I did not change the type myself, since I did not want to publish it as a Tip. I would have rather not publish it as a Tip in that case. I think this thing makes no sense. A writer alone should be given the right to decide if they want to publish something as something or not. If the community thinks that something is not worth publishing, it is fine. But totally changing another person's submission without their will is not acceptable. As soon as I saw it appear as a Tip, I deleted it. I am very surprised at this thing. Don't eat my apples if you think they are not tasty. But don't try to turn my apples into oranges because you think I should rather have oranges.
Hi, First of all, I'm sorry if you felt the editor mis-categorised your article. I, personally, do not think it's a Tip so I've updated it and moved it back to being an article. I would not, however, call changing it from an article to a tip "totally changing another person's submission". Second, you also have the ability to update your article and change it back to an article. Since you chose to delete it instead of simply changing it to an article gave me pause and hence I left your article in the deleted state. Again, I apologise if there was any offense. We're here to help you share code and if you have a problem or a question on what we've done, just ask, and we'll do our best to make things right. If you wish to simply delete the article because of a mistake then that's certainly your perogative, but I think there's is a better approach.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi, First of all, I'm sorry if you felt the editor mis-categorised your article. I, personally, do not think it's a Tip so I've updated it and moved it back to being an article. I would not, however, call changing it from an article to a tip "totally changing another person's submission". Second, you also have the ability to update your article and change it back to an article. Since you chose to delete it instead of simply changing it to an article gave me pause and hence I left your article in the deleted state. Again, I apologise if there was any offense. We're here to help you share code and if you have a problem or a question on what we've done, just ask, and we'll do our best to make things right. If you wish to simply delete the article because of a mistake then that's certainly your perogative, but I think there's is a better approach.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Thanks for the response. The only reason I got upset is because I was not even asked if I wanted it to be posted as a Tip. If someone had asked me, I would have politely said 'No' and tried to improve my work without any complain. As to the fact that one can later change it, I would repeat the same thing: Why not ask before doing it, so the other person is not 'forced' to undo it. I have been using CP for like a decade and have been writing on it for about 2 years. I spend time writing because I enjoy it; not because I like to start arguments that disturb my and other people's peace of mind. Not everyone has nerves of steel and some writers may just be a little short of being totally crazy. For a moment I was just about to delete everything I have ever submitted. Now that's crazy, even I know. But ... I would simple request that in future my articles are not Tipped. Thanks again for your response. I will again try to post an improved version of my 'Article.' Kashif Imran.
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Thanks for the response. The only reason I got upset is because I was not even asked if I wanted it to be posted as a Tip. If someone had asked me, I would have politely said 'No' and tried to improve my work without any complain. As to the fact that one can later change it, I would repeat the same thing: Why not ask before doing it, so the other person is not 'forced' to undo it. I have been using CP for like a decade and have been writing on it for about 2 years. I spend time writing because I enjoy it; not because I like to start arguments that disturb my and other people's peace of mind. Not everyone has nerves of steel and some writers may just be a little short of being totally crazy. For a moment I was just about to delete everything I have ever submitted. Now that's crazy, even I know. But ... I would simple request that in future my articles are not Tipped. Thanks again for your response. I will again try to post an improved version of my 'Article.' Kashif Imran.
I totally understand and apologised for the mistake. I've sent a not to the editor explaining the situation and it won't happen again.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I totally understand and apologised for the mistake. I've sent a not to the editor explaining the situation and it won't happen again.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I highly appreciate that you considered and fixed my problem. Thank you very much!