Articles Quality - Feedback Needed

Question

Guys!
So we have been improving the quality of articles by providing additional editing support and moving some articles to blogs. What do you guys think about recent changes?

All feedback is welcome.

Thanks!
Mahesh

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Good suggestion Ibrahim. New website will have Articles and Blogs on the home page side by side.

Ibrahim Ersoy · Answer

The author,him/herself must decide this.maybe the author is convinced he/she wrote an article not a blog :) And on the other side, small articles cant be defined as articles in general point-of-view. i'll give a solution here: most of people want to write article,because they want to see their work on homepage(see Latest Articles section) by splitting the area "Latest Articles" owns, into 2 pieces,and adding "Latest Blogs" section there,it'll help on this issue.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Thanks Sam. I know you helped a lot but sometimes it takes time for us to take care of things. Please keep in mind, we have full time jobs too and other responsibilities. As per editing, having local interns help a lot.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

I wish I knew why you finally acted upon those items. I apologize if I was too pushy about those things, but I really think that many other members agreed that we needed to do what you are now doing. I really tried to do a good job of editing. I sure tried to get the small artilces converted to a blog or something. I tried, and I suspect that I was too pushy about it. Whatevedr editing is being done now, I sure tried to do the best I could. I wanted to know how I could do better and as best as I understand it, I sure tried to get the improvements accomplished that you describe here.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Thanks for the feedback guys. We will keep improving and this is ongoing effort.

Prabhu Raja · Answer

Thank you sir, Also i Want to give my suggestion. Article Writers may follow some standard Format, like Placing 1) Abstract 2) Article Head 3) Introduction 4) Subheadings 5) Conclusions 6) Acknowledgement 7) References ----------------------------------------------------------- Thank You

Sivaraman Dhamodaran · Answer

That is a welcome decision Mahesh. The quality of the articles makes our site decent. Articles should not be full of code (A four line of some small description 2-5% of content, then full of codes spawning the reminder of the content) without any explanation and that will leave even the experienced user in jungle with eyes are bound. Blog can be a place for it with a restriction that the code should be small enough. However that does't mean blog is place for all the junks. I am seeing the site for almost 3 year (I am a guest for 2 years, during the office hours I visit when I don't have much work), and found that it has lot of option to post the stuffs. Place for posting jokes, news, sharing the thoughts etc. So there is lot of channel available. Do not allow posting a question as blog we have forums for it, and a blog should not be article. The site was grown by lot of peoples involved in initial days and it has some respect as its contents helps lot of peoples especially people who want to learn. Let is don't lose that and disappoint site reader. Again welcome to the option Mahesh and I will obey the rules if some of my article moves to blog. PS: My apologies if I expressed something wrongly here and I am not pointing any of the authors.

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

Good Initiative Mahesh... We can also provide this option for the members if they can move it to blog or vice versa. Also can intimate the member when administrator move the article to blog.

Pravin More · Answer

Hello Mahesh Sir, Yes its good, I really appreciate decision of moving some articles to blogs to maintain standard and quality of articles. I would like to suggest rather request one thing that along with mail updates it good if we get notifications on profile it self. Thank You, Pravin.