Placing too many restrictions - not a good idea.
Hi,Originally Posted by Darrel Taylor
No, I only get those when I eat Jalapenos. And yeah, Ice to the whole helps.
But seriously,
The Code Examples come Few and Far between. Whether it's a feeling of "Why should I give it to them for FREE?" or maybe a fear of ridicule from people who see it. Or maybe they just don't want to debug everyone's program when they try to use it, simply to prove that the original program really does work.
With those reasons already in play, placing rules on top of it with voting and the like, would surely put a quick end to anyone posting anything. Because first off, nobody would bother voting. Just look at the results from the existing threads with Poll's.
While many newbie's think that the Code Examples forum is the place to Request a Code Example, or Ask their question in the FAQ forum, simply because they've Frequently Asked themselves the same Question, I do my best to keep the Code Examples and FAQ forums clear of all the junk, and move everything out to the appropriate forums.
Note: All the other forums are "Fair Game", except for SPAM and Flames. Added: and Politics, and religion.
However, if I've missed something, feel free to chime in at any time. It's impossible to catch everything myself.
I spent the bulk of my time last year hovering around Planet Source Code. My main objective was to further improve my programming skills in VB. I achieved this through a series of about 50 code submissions, feedback from other users, and in December of last year I won a coding competition.
For those who aren’t familiar with Planet Source Code, they have a voting system, and each month, based on highest number of votes, 4 submissions are chosen as contest winners. You win a prize of your choice, there are a few to pick from – I settled for a copy of PhpED valued at $299.
Planet Source Code receives a tremendous amount of traffic from users. Most submissions get around (100-200) hits daily in the first week. Some of them even more!
And, because of this the voting system works to some extent. About 1 in 100 people vote on merit. The rest either don’t bother or place a vote of ‘poor’ on something that they’re obviously very jealous about. All told, you’re doing well if you receive 10 or more excellent votes on your submission.
I would like to make a suggestion that something of a similar system would go down well here. But unfortunately, I don’t think there’s enough traffic. Mainly because, even though PBP is at a mature state it’s not largely widespread enough. This may however change in all due time. *Hope it does* With most this in mind, you couldn’t place too many restrictions or be terribly too fuzzy with what people are willing to submit. As Darrel points out, the site may end up with nothing if this approach is taken.
Keep Coding,
Trent Jackson
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