Do you think that this website is best for discussion forums

[sthota]

hai all

do you think that this website is best and will occupy the first place for all discussion forums.

if ur answer is yes then why?
if ur answer is no then why?

sthota

[scarab_cn]

Oh,yeah,
To me,The site is the best:D :cool:

[sthota]

hai scarab

what else u like in this site.

sthota

[Simon666]

What do you mean exactly? Do you mean the General Dicsussion Forum will become number one, or that Codeguru will be the number one Discussion Forum on programming. In the first case I would say no, in the latter partially yes. I think in some areas Codeguru will be number one, but not in all. I think there is a specific VB forum somewhere that is bigger, and although for example you can post here questions on OpenGL, this is not an OpenGL forum.

[Platinum Plus]

This site I like . The name I like :cool:

[sthota]

hai simon

i mean the for all discussion forums. not for this general discussion only.

sthota

[Simon666]

Well, in that case you already have my nuancated answer. I cannot vote yes or no. It is yes in some cases, no in others.

[sthota]

so simon

i need to add one more option which is '50-50'.
am i right?

sthota

[Simon666]

If possible, I've never tried to edit a poll.

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by sthota
so simon

i need to add one more option which is '50-50'.
am i right?

sthota

Here you are.

[scarab_cn]

Originally posted by sthota
hai scarab

what else u like in this site.

sthota

Hello,sthota pal:)
I only like the "General Discussion",Maybe I logged on the site late.Perhaps I will find other interesting thing from other discussion soon. :D :D

Additional,It is free for me communicating with you,how relax!

[Simon666]

Can I ask you what you voted and why, Gabriel?

[Platinum Plus]

Additional,It is free for me communicating with you,how relax! No it's not free... soon you will have to pay tax to Simon :p

Just kidding :D ;)

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by Simon666
Can I ask you what you voted and why, Gabriel?

I voted 'No' because I think that the vast majority of CodeGurus' users are interested in programming. Didn't you notice that there is a small group of people posting in General Discussion?

I may be wrong, but I also hope that CodeGuru won't degenerate to a board for goofing around (*) (I know a few boards that are supposed to be technical, but the most frequented forum is the General Discussion, or the Lounge) but will remain a strong source of information regarding programming.

(*) yup, that is what we are doing on General Discussion. But it's fun. :D

[Simon666]

But in some posts above he clarified he meant all discussion forums, not just this one? :confused: :eek:

[sthota]

u r right gabriel,

then u have to opt for the last choice.

is it ?

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by Simon666
But in some posts above he clarified he meant all discussion forums, not just this one? :confused: :eek:

Oh. I missed that :rolleyes:
But it's still not clear to me: we are comparing the entire CG board with what? With other boards dedicated to programming? Do newsgroups also count? If they do, CG will hardly be able to compete with c.l.c[...] , I think.

Mybe the OP could refine his question.

[Simon666]

It is also not that clear to me. :confused:

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by Simon666
It is also not that clear to me. :confused:

Maybe I should stick Sonus' "Before you start a new poll" thread on top of the forum:(

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

For those who love numbers:

CodeGuru: Members: 84,252, Posts: 613,385
CodeProject: Members: 51,741, Posts: 181,967
GameDev: Members: 37,568, Posts: 739,466


For the latter two boards, the Lounge has the most posts. For CodeProject I added the number of posts by hand, so it may be inexact.

[sthota]

then gabriel,

which is the best in ur opinion for discussion forums

sthota

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by sthota
then gabriel,

which is the best in ur opinion for discussion forums

sthota

As I have nearly 3000 posts on CodeGuru and I am volunteering as a moderator, what do you think? ;)

[Yves M]

I would say that codeguru is very good. It is good for general questions, but as Simon has pointed out, there are other forums that deal better with more specific questions (like OpenGL / COM / network programming / hardware programming etc.)

[sthota]

hai Yves M

thanks and can u tell me the which one is best for COM

sthota

[freaky_NL]

do you think that this website is best and will occupy the first place for all discussion forums. It's the #1 programming site for me... It's got a nice known userbase (and it's growing). People here will kick u under the balls if u mess up (like they should) and most of all it's fun here.

Oh, and it's a great way to waste your employers time, Simon forgot to mention that haha.

You could for example go and check out the logical tasks. They're fun.

Oh, what's also nice is that I can say all french people suck and nobody will be offended, cuz they all know I don't really hate the french but just have some small matters on which most of the french and I tend to disagree. Just don't say anything we don't understand, that'll be offensive hehe

[Amn]

Actually after some people here, including Gabriel, gently pointed out that they wouldn't like to see CodeGuru become GoofGuru i reconsidered my attitude. I also think COdeGUru should remain CodeGuru, and i consider it to be the best forum around. My arguments would be 1) amount of usefull articles, and the fact that we, 'mortals' can post them and accept objective critics from the crowd 2) Skilled programmers who respect this place take their time to help others, thus being directly responsible for raising the general programming level here 3) A set of rules that are very comfortable - moderators are to the point but polite, they are also multinational which adds to the overall look of the idea of CodeGuru. TO summarize the above - CodeGuru is packed with features. And in short: i sometimes dont know, but it is simply crawled under my skin :D

Now back to my reconsideration of the attitude: I think twice now before i post or before i make new threads. I realised that network traffic is not without bounds, that other people use this site too, that the databases and servers cost money and that since we are using them for free we should be polite and grateful.
This indirectly means caring for the site, as i for one am only one single member, but since Gabriel pointed out there 84,000 of them here, and each one bears some bit of responsibility. I think the idea of FAQ here is monumental, and galatheas wise post about a sort of system being able to add to the FAQ so that less 'noise' shall be moderated, and people would think twice before urgently heading to the forum and write sometimes meaningless posts, which revolve around questions already answered somewhere else here.

Lets be to CodeGuru the way CodeGuru is to us.

[Yves M]

Originally posted by Amn
3) A set of rules that are very comfortable - moderators are to the point but polite, they are also multinational which adds to the overall look of the idea of CodeGuru.
Thank you, I feel flattered ;)

hai Yves M

thanks and can u tell me the which one is best for COM

sthota
I don't have a clue, but I noticed that generally it's hard to get good answers for hard COM questions. I've seen alexey_somenumber who has a good knowledge and KnNeeded, but not many other have posted on COM issues. I mean, I've been doing COM for a little less than a year and I'm not yeat fully sure about some things, but most of the time I refrain from asking my questions here since they wouldn't get answered :/

[galathaea]

COM and all its other monikers is something I'm struggling through right now too, and I wouldn't post unless I thought it was specific a question that alexey_1979 might answer. But there are a lot of great articles here on the subject, better I think than codeproject's, so I muddle my way through them. That might be the best way to get through COM. I mean, I've got books everywhere on it from the local university library, but they are often old and don't go through some of the specifics that I need. Don't know of any other forums on it that may help. Just articles from around the web and the dueling code pages.

[Brad Jones]

Posting such a question in the general forum is not the place to get a good answer. Most of the people don't go to the general forum. Posting this poll in any other forum, however, will get you in trouble because it would be off topic. As such, there isn't a good way to get a valid answer for this question.

The primary purpose of the CodeGuru forums is to provide a forum for coders and programmers to interact in regard to technical questions on technical topics. The general discussion forum is secondary. It allows the community a place for more idle discussions.

Brad!

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[Brad Jones]

By the way, my vote couts 1000. :D

Polls are only as good as the people who control the numbers :)

Brad!

[Yves M]

Originally posted by Brad Jones
By the way, my vote couts 1000. :D

Polls are only as good as the people who control the numbers :)

Brad!
lol Brad :p

Well to add my two cents (euro cents, so a little cheaper ;)) I'd say that General Discussion adds a lot of value to the community. If we didn't have it, there would be much less of a connection in between regular posters. I know there are famous exceptions like Paul McKenzie or Sam Hobbs, but in general people who post here are (or are becoming) forum regulars. The community aspect comes from the fact that we get to know each other ;) (in other ways than quoting from each other and saying : NO THIS IS UTTERLY WRONG WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE ! (small side-note to Non-VC++ readers who will understand the reference :p))

PS. Don't start advertising other discussion forums in this thread or the thread will be closed. Sorry
Well this is of course a thorny issue that will have to be discussed ;)

galathea:
Well I don't know... I would still like to have a place to ask my COM questions without them disappearing in the forum dusk behind the "How do I make my buttons red and green striped and flashing ?" ;)

[galathaea]

Oh, I'd love to have that too! I mentioned something like that elsewhere (in Feedback), but I see that in my previous post here my penultimate sentence was a bit confusing.

[Brad Jones]

I like the general discussion too. Some of the threads that have popped up have been interesting.

The Where are we From thread (while I gave up on trying to keep up with it) was a great indicator that CodeGuru is truly a world-wide place. I found it facinating that people really, really wanted their countries listed. People were excited to get to vote. Of topic, yes, interesting, yes. Disruptive to the code forums? No! It wasn't disruptive because we kept it in the general discussion area.

By the way, I added Brazil just a few days ago because there are a number of guys who wanted to be able to mark their specific country down.

Community? You bet.

Besides, nobody wants to talk code on a Friday night :D

[JeffB]

Originally posted by ???????????
PS. Don't start advertising other discussion forums in this thread or the thread will be closed. Sorry

Is that true? We can't post link to other discussion forums? I can't find where you read that Yves M., but if it is true, I'll like to see "why", since I've already link a post to CodeGuru in another forum :D :)

Anyway, as for non-programming related forum, I find it interesting. It develops the community and make kind of "contacts", so you learn some others members. I appreciate it and I don't think it would depreciate CodeGuru in any way. Programming forums are as they were before the General Discussion boost. And CodeGuru is (in part) a community of programmers, it's always interesting to see what a programmer community talk about when this is not lines of code (<-- Pretty rare IMO :)) :)

JeffB