Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!
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This is getting ridiculous. It's becoming increasingly difficult to see which questions need answering, which questions have been dragged back to the top in an attempt to "bump" them, which have been dragged back by a spammer, and which are there because they've had trivial and minor edits made by a CodeProject editor. :doh: Eg:
Is it really worth resurrecting a question from a week ago just to add pointless <pre lang="text">...</pre>tags around something that shouldn't have<pre>tags at all?! If anything needed changing, the<pre>tags around the "NO GOOGLE" sentence should have been removed.
If you're going to edit a question to "improve" the standard of English used, then please actually improve it! Replacing "i showing only" with "I show only" rather than "it show only" (or better: "it only shows") simply reinforces the fact that you're not actually reading the text you're "correcting".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?
cheers Chris Maunder
It's not that they have been badly edited, it is that the edits are totally unnecessary. Here is another one that was posted 13 days ago, and has been editied today, just to change "i" to "I". So now it is at the top of the queue, and thus pushing more active qestions further down. ERROR:"the option setting 'android.experimental.testoptions.emulatorsnapshots.maxsnapshotsfortestfailures=0' is experimental"[^]. [edit] And this How do insert an image in jasper reports. The output format is PDF.I am using iReports as designing tool.[^] [/edit]
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Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?
cheers Chris Maunder
First screen-shot is this one[^]. Second one is the question[^] RMC linked to in his edit. Here's one from 28th October, edited yesterday to add a "." at the end: What is the answer of this question? Explain please[^] 29th October, edited yesterday to remove the "Hello to everyone." at the start and change some white-space in the code block: Do not repeat the number in the database[^] 29th October, edited yesterday to change "get" to "gets" and add one comma: Scrape data and send updates in android[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?
cheers Chris Maunder
How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:
- Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
- Changed "win32" to "Win32";
- Changed "c++" to "C++";
- Changed "googled" to "Googled";
I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer
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How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:
- Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
- Changed "win32" to "Win32";
- Changed "c++" to "C++";
- Changed "googled" to "Googled";
I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Maybe a question shouldn't be bumped after editing unless done by the original author, or something like that.
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Maybe a question shouldn't be bumped after editing unless done by the original author, or something like that.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:
- Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
- Changed "win32" to "Win32";
- Changed "c++" to "C++";
- Changed "googled" to "Googled";
I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
I might be wrong or I might have complained about the "revision" not being available because of faulty browsing (I have never updated FF on my current box (2018 easily). Ever!) but doesn't it occur to anyone else that the report should be centered on the "revisor" and not the post itself? Isn't your issue with the editor? Tell him to lay off then. Surely the moderators forum would be the space in which to conduct the voir dire and from there you could prosecute the offender most easily. So when is my trial date? :wtf:
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Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?
cheers Chris Maunder
Maybe could be an idea to focus the CP-Editors to the publications and leave the Q&A to us users? I can imagine there are enough "wrong format" flags to be more or less continously busy.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I might be wrong or I might have complained about the "revision" not being available because of faulty browsing (I have never updated FF on my current box (2018 easily). Ever!) but doesn't it occur to anyone else that the report should be centered on the "revisor" and not the post itself? Isn't your issue with the editor? Tell him to lay off then. Surely the moderators forum would be the space in which to conduct the voir dire and from there you could prosecute the offender most easily. So when is my trial date? :wtf:
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How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:
- Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
- Changed "win32" to "Win32";
- Changed "c++" to "C++";
- Changed "googled" to "Googled";
I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
A lot of times (and in specific scenarios), I delete rather than edit, to avoid this bothersome scenario. As Quick Answers works now, minor edits cannot be applied like this, so you will no longer see minor edits like this.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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RedDk wrote:
Isn't your issue with the editor?
Yes, but since the person in question is a staff member, it needs a decision at CodeProject management level.
.. ah, yes! She is isn't she?. From far off though that satchel looks like a cigar so you can appreciate the confusion I was still experiencing even while posting this rejoinder. :doh: