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Hi,
I just received the 06 august newsletter; it awards most popular article an article with
bad formatting, that I am not even willing to read since that would require horizontal
scrolling for every line of text (although my screen is 1920 pixels wide !).
I strongly suggest you exclude badly formatted articles from every "most ..." list,
and make this clearly known to all; this may help rectify the situation. Awarding and
mentioning them certainly does not.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this weeks tips:
- make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/AllLanguages/General
- show exceptions with ToString() to see all information
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
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At the top of each article is a link "Report Broken Article". You can use this to report the article and we will then make sure the article is cleaned up and readable.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I am aware of that.
I would use it only if something fails that I would not blame the author for.
Things the author did wrong I can always report to him with a comment message.
I don't like to use the "broken article link" for formatting problems; it would be an
invitation to cheating the editing queue: publish an unedited and unformatted article,
report it as broken, get it edited right away, rather than waiting your turn in the queue.
In my opinion people should take care of their own formatting, if they don't care
about it, why would I trust the content of the article or message ? And why would
they deserve being awarded anything ?
{added: here is what I suggest: when an unedited article is submitted, check it
for a resaonable ratio of P-tags versus file length; if insufficient, don't publish
it at all, just insert it at the end of the editor's queue. They will learn it
eventually.]
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this weeks tips:
- make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/AllLanguages/General
- show exceptions with ToString() to see all information
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
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Luc Pattyn wrote: cheating the editing queue: publish an unedited and unformatted article,
report it as broken, get it edited right away, rather than waiting your turn in the queue
Bad way to bypass the queue and get preempt others who are waiting in the queue. But we can block this link from being used by the author (or his IP) like in Vote. Or we can ask for a mandatory reasons. Either of the reasons or both combined should stall the problem or at least 'check' the problem and 'arrest'/'contain' it right?
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When you login to CodeProject, it would be good to show 'Last Known Best Login' or 'Number of Incorrect Logins' (like http://www.eml.cc/[^] does)
Also, in the user profile, you can show whether the user is online or offline and his last login timestamp. 
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No - this is a breach of privacy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I first understood it as showing the name of who ever did the most recent login;
but that does not make much sense to me.
Now I think VDK meant information on login attempts with the current user's account;
that's what several services do (such as banks over here), it may help in noticing
break-in attempts.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this weeks tips:
- make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/AllLanguages/General
- show exceptions with ToString() to see all information
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
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Luc Pattyn wrote: it may help in noticing
break-in attempts.
True. That would really help step-up the security of the account. I think a few of the CPians have also been reporting phishing right. Like sometime back, a CPian by name ("Roswell") was complaining that there was a similar named duplicate prankster in the messageboards asking for password reset of her account.
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How about 'Failed Login Attempts' for the current user. That should be enhancing the security of the account. Wouldn't that be a value-addition for the security features of the website?
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Thanks for that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Youre welcome
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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achimera has been posting for a few days, at least. You can see an example here[^] But click on the head icon that takes you to his profile, and his post count says 0. 
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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My profile's post count works, but the posting status has been stuck on "poster" for a few days now even though im at +100 posts. Maybe its related?
//Johannes
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Not sure if 100 posts get you beyond Poster, but the script that upgrades user accounts runs only once in a while, so it generally takes a while before you move to the next level of Zen.
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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The position of headlines on the News page needs to be tweaked. A headline appears to be grouped with the text of a previous headline. See this[^] screenshot.
/ravi
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I have a issue, well, our corporate censor filter is having a problem when it sees a google link with the "safe=off" ( or whatever the safe mode tag is in the google link) tag in the link.
is it possible to scan and parse the link to make the google links "safe" ?
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Hans Dietrich wrote: http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?id=4383677
That's not a troll - that's old Bianca Wylie (former CP marketing exec)
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: That's not a troll - that's old Bianca Wylie (former CP marketing exec)
Some of the posts have a stream of consciousness feel to them.
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What's happened with the Design & Architecture second pre 6th July?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Set the "Messages Since" dropdown to something greater than 1 month ago.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Sorry - should have made myself clearer. There seems to be a problem with missing messages. Have people been mass deleting by any chance?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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