Code Examples

[sayzer]

Oh my!

Case in point, someone just replied to a thread from over a year ago...

• Playstation gamepad interface code? (sayzer)
  http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=18649

I've never seen that before.
This stuff needs to be in an index somewhere, or something.

Hi Darrel,

I did not get your point.

Could you be more specific please?

Thanks

[T.Jackson]

I think what Darrel is trying to say is that there's some relatively good threads backlogged that may be of some considerable interest to others.

[Darrel Taylor]

Sayzer,

It's just that everything seems to gets lost in the forum.

Over a year ago, you posted a complete woking program in the PicBasic Pro furum that interfaces to a Playstation Gamepad.

Maybe I was playing Half-Life that day and didn't see it get posted. As time goes on and more threads gets posted. The example just gets buried deeper and deeper.

I had actually never seen it untill someone else posted a reply to it.

And in the same manner, my proposal for a way around the problem is also getting buried. It's up in post #14.

There's got to be a better way.

.

[mackrackit]

Darrel,

Is there a way to rig the forum so if a thread receives 10? 5 star ratings it would automatically be moved to... "THIS PLACE HAS GOOD STUFF".

[mackrackit]

On second thought the star idea may not work.

This thread has 5 stars, why?http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2907

The thread it refers to has 4 stars?

[Darrel Taylor]

Dave,

That's what we want to see. Good idea's!

Unfortunately, vBulletin doesn't seem to have a feature like that.
But such a good idea it was, it led to this thought ....

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:picbasic.co.uk +"thread rating"

Which pulls up every thread that has been voted on in the forum.
A.K.A. the "THIS PLACE HAS GOOD STUFF" place.
(the first few results are the Forums themselves)

Then, if you add another search term to the seach box on that page, it will give a list of threads that were voted on, that also match your keyword.

It also quite handly shows the number of votes for each thread in the search results.

And if nothing else, it provides a source of the "Best threads" for creating a List as mentioned before.

But then, you all need to start voting on the GOOD one's, to make it work.

.

[mackrackit]

OK I will start voting.

Is there a way to put you link on the main page, with instructions?

[Darrel Taylor]

Great!,

I hope we can get a few more people to do the same.

Here's a couple links that may improve the results by limiting them to at least Min votes.

Min
4 --- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:picbasic.co.uk +"thread rating" -"2 votes" -"3 votes"

5 --- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:picbasic.co.uk +"thread rating" -"2 votes" -"3 votes" -"4 votes"

.

[Ioannis]

If I may suggest, a good search engine might help also. The forum has one but not very practical. Darrel suggested another one ... but I lost it. If I only could find where it was....

See what I mean? Can the forum search be improoved? If not, may be Darrel's suggestion be somewhere easy to find? (Higher rated)

Ioannis