Ok, lets change it to "criticism should be core to improving the quality of articles for the community"? lol

Yes, perhaps bringing it up in the lounge was a bit much but my intentions where to simply bring up the topic in a place that would receive attention and call forth the fact that constructive criticism is not meant to be a personal attack but informative and helpful. Do believe I'll keep these things between me and the affected individual from now on.

Thank you Nish, simply put I don't want to drive people away only to try to help, which I may not always do in the most tactful or "best" way, and sometimes my tongue runs astray. I do believe that in the future Ill withhold ratings and provide feedback in a more positive manner. :D

modified on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:55 PM

Fair enough, in the future I'll hand out higher scores. It's simply that like you said the archive has quite a few horrors that need to have proper ratings and proper criticism. I've handed out my apology to the author and revise my rating and then move on.

I was unable to? In my suggestion I didn't just say "bad article here's a one, please give up", I went as far as to even offer suggestions as to how to the improve the article. Hardly a power trip, what are you supposed to say? I'll admit I was a tad harsh but was constructive. For those who can't view the article here's the original comment " The article is little more than a codedump. No explanation of algorithms or why this was even developed just a bunch of here's some code and a half-hearted attempt to explain how it would be useful. Go back through the article and elaborate on the functions, give a thorough explanation of program flow and perhaps why you choose for the AI to act the way it does".

Uhhh, lol strange last time I check I was a lowly peon...

Link should be fixed but just incase : Tic Tac Toe Implemented in C# with Computer Player[^]

Original Article that made me write this[^][^] ( scroll to the comments :P) First and foremost anyone who writes an article and puts effort into, reads the guidelines, and makes a serious attempt and a 5 star article deserves at least 3 stars. Anyways, the thing is this community is about providing quality material to professional programmers and we do this through community contributions. The side effect is not every article is going to be great and at the same time authors need to be able to take criticism and use that productively to either improve the article or apply it to the next submission. Summary: If you're going to get hurt because someone said your article needs work then please refrain from submitting. Criticism is the core of this community and if you cant take the heat get out of the kitchen.

I've been using VAX for about a year now and it's hard to go back to a vanilla VC++. It truly spoils us C++ users.

lol im from the south mate, i've been fishing since i could walk :P and thanks to all everyone that replied i'll check those suggestions out soonish

Does anyone know of any particularly good videos for someone to learn bass guitar?

http://www.cccp-project.net/[^] If that doesn't fix it then there's very little left :P

MOV DWORD PTR:[BRAIN], INTELLIGENCE

Facebook is the new cigarette. :)

I can still access it :S. Reported it anyways.

Picture (It's family friendly)[^] Source[^]

Other than VS2010 wasn't much of an improvement? If you're interested in XNA Game Studio then you wont be able to develop for anything other than Windows 7 Mobile as the 4.0 CTP will integrate into VS2010 but only allows building for mobile platforms (3.1 is the one to use an only integrates into 2005 and 2008).

Getting the ideal eyebrows, and in a more elegant form: going to the extreme to chase a fantasy.

Source: http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/80124/Problem-regarding-confilcting-Class-names.aspx#answer1[^] Important Quote: Thanks for answering, i got your point. But in my case, B.Bar doesn't inherit A.Base. Both A and B have totally different implementations and don't reference each other. But both provides same functionality, same methods, same properties. So, i want to use functionality of both namespaces without creating different objects for their classes. Am I not the only one who's thinking "Polymorphism and Programming to an interface?" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260635%28VS.60%29.aspx[^])

Zero area yet still requires space? A ray perhaps?