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The removal threshold of 13 votes is too high to get rid of any except a few of the most extremely offensive posts. With very rare exceptions Vote To Remove and Vote 1 function identically because the threshold for hte former is never reached.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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I came here to report about that same idiot and I saw David's post. Just take a look at his posts. We can't be ALWAYS arsed to keep marking his posts for removal. Yes, I have used that option and his post is still around and I'm sure that he'll be back to make more such inane posts.
Unless you see any substantial value in keeping him around, you should be removing him. He's a nuisance, and he bothers the people who help there. There's nothing more from him.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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The problem with this guy is that newbies probably think that he's some genius who has the answer to everything (5 lines of code, COM, SDK, etc). Yet, all he does is discrediting and insulting people who have been helping here for a long time.
He's even worse than the idiots posting mindless drivel in the Lounge.
(edit: typo)
modified on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:04 PM
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Very correctly said.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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I agree. This is different from the occasional inappropriate message. This guy is systematically posting bogus answers to many questions, which discredits the forum and the site.
This can't be a mistake; he's getting off by pissing on the site and the many good people here.
It seems like there should be one or two volunteer moderators per forum, who have the juice to ban a member from a forum.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: It seems like there should be one or two volunteer moderators per forum, who have the juice to ban a member from a forum.
I've suggested that a few times before as well, for similar reasons. I wonder if such a thing will happen at all.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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It reflects the user's adamant and arrogant attitude. A kind of crazy temerity or a misguided unappropriate misdirected misdemeanour to demonstrate in public.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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CP Team,
The one page survey shows the following message after completion and submission of the same:
You do not have permission to view these survey results.
Since it is a normal course of submission, it is the obligation on part of the survey script to handle it gracefully and show a 'Thanks' message instead of showing an error, which is rather misguiding right?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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No worries - I'll fix it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I just took the developer survey thingy and noticed that there were no dividing lines/alternate row highlighting etc, and this made it difficult to ensure you were ticking the box in line with the correct response/question...
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Am I being paranoid for seeing that like teh developer this imbecile is from Lebanon?
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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You're correct. He's too much of an idiot that we can spot him in a flash. His extremely poor vocabulary and terrible posts give it away, no matter what he hides behind or how long of a break he takes before coming back here.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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He's not actually broken any rules yet. At least not with this current login he's using.
I'm not going to kick someone just because he's posting drivel. If I did that the place would be very quiet
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: He's not actually broken any rules yet. At least not with this current login he's using.
Right, then. I'll ping you the moment this troll violates any of the rules.
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not going to kick someone just because he's posting drivel. If I did that the place would be very quiet
Yes, it would be very quiet without Dalek Dave.
Just kidding Dalek, just kidding.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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I have my hoards of Evil Daleks ready to descend and wreak havoc upon you, oh no, wait, er... you're right!
Well, it is not always drivel, but I must admit, there is a bit from time to time.
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"I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. "
Steve Harris 2009
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Chris Maunder wrote: If I did that the place would be very quiet
Too much silence like a grave without such mischevious cats would spoil some occasional fun too.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Hi, I noticed that the advanced search doesn't work anymore in Firefox and NoScript addon. I use the advanced search to limit search results to the last month. Even if you allow JavaScript from Codeproject the advanced search won't show up, you also need to allow other websites (microsoft.com). Would be nice if Codeproject website would work without 3rd party scripts.
Cheers, Moak
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... how to answer a question, why not an article/post on "How to evaluate an article"?!
Now we've got people giving praise to code dumps where the "discussion" of the code/concepts wouldn't fill a sticky note.
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We'll put something together in the moderation box in new articles.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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As we roll into yet another year, I would like to call your attention to my favorite unimplemented feature, showing downloads on member's article page.
I know what you're thinking: But Hans, that will take massive amounts of DB processing, and we simply can't spare the cycles on any of our 400 servers".
Well, I think the recent server problems have proved that you can inflict excruciating pain on CP members, and not have to worry about open rebellion.
So how about it? Hit the local LCBO, crank up the scripts and the Rammstein tunes, and spend the evening not caring much about anything.
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That was on a todo list but disappeared some time ago
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I vote for not fixing what ain't broke, until we have fixed what is broke. Accepting a temporary server problems is not the same thing as volunteering for a permanent slowdown.
Jon
'When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.' ~ Montesquieu
Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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There's a difference between problems caused by releasing a system that causes a few hours discomfort, and something that will chew up a month of CPU time (at our latest guess).
But regardless: your point is that having download counts would not only be nice for everyone in general, it would be valuable to authors specifically.
In a week or so I'll start the ball rolling on getting this sorted out. If I have to buy a dedicated machine to do this then so be it. Processing will take a long, long time, but I guess even if we start releasing figures bit by bit it's something.
(and I just discovered an old cache of Rammstein classics on my laptop. I'm good to go.)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You've lost me there. Either I missed a joke sign somewhere, or I am puzzled how one or two download counters (one for the downloading person, one for the article) can cause you to consider a new machine, where we already have an article view counter and probably many other counters too.
Would some delay be helpful (a log file and some batch processing)?
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!
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