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I recently received an email from someone whose article I had commented on, but when I went to reply the article had been removed. I did a quick lookup to find the user and discovered that he or she had been a member of CodeProject for nearly six years, had no articles to their name, and only 25 messages, but had the status of Supporter (with halo). I just wonder what are the criteria for achieving this status?
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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IIRC in the old days you could pay a fee to support the site, and you were given a halo and the status "Supporter". Doubtless someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: YRC
WTFDTSF?
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You Recall Correctly - he did say II.
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aspdotnetdev wrote: WTFDTSF?
WTFDTSF?
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ISF - What the "flip" does that stand for?
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YTM.
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Supporter status was given to those who purchased VS.NET and MSDN from us back in the good old days. WE've been meaning to deprecate this status for, oh, 5 years or so
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: WE've been meaning to deprecate this status
I'm a supporter of this decision.
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Actually, wait, if I could give you $25 to get a shiney icon on my profile, I totally would. Money making opportunity?
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Well, at least you have deleted it from the member type page, even though the who who icon still links to it
Dave
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DaveAuld wrote: even though the who who icon still links to it
That bloody owl is back again!
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I thought maybe more of pigeon............whatever it is, it terrorises Bob!
Dave
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I don't know if this has already been said. Considering this is a programming site, I have the following two suggestions.
It seems like the "debate" points earned by a member in the programming zone is clubbed with the ones earned in the banter/rant zone. It would be convenient and useful if they are split into their own sub category. I feel people who aren't the regulars or are the lurkers (even the non member ones) will find it easy to consider answers given by people with "credentials", so let the rep points actually reflect this.
Also, going a step ahead, in every member's profile page, it would be helpful to have a list of domains/categories in which that member has answered the most and has earned high rep points.
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Answering a question in a Programming Zone gives you Authority Points, a ramble or conversation point gives you a Debator Point.
That seems reasonable.
As you say this is a Programming Site, not the Statistical Department of Edinburgh University.
I can't see the benefits of over analysis, most 'droppers in' do not care who helps, those who are more permanent know who are the experts in their fields.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Dalek Dave wrote: Answering a question in a Programming Zone gives you Authority Points, a ramble or conversation point gives you a Debator Point.
That seems reasonable.
Oops! I overlooked that. Thanks.
Dalek Dave wrote: As you say this is a Programming Site, not the Statistical Department of Edinburgh University.
I can't see the benefits of over analysis, most 'droppers in' do not care who helps, those who are more permanent know who are the experts in their fields.
No, I feel it is still going to be helpful. I didn't know a lot of members existed till their name showed up in programming zone and I had to check on them.
(and THIS was supposed to be my thousandth post?!
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Congrats on the 1000!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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I think it'll be a nice to have if the site provides some kind of networking tools for users. There are more than 10,000 developers in the company I work for and am sure a lot of them will be members here and a few hundreds may even be active members. I wanted to search users who have mentioned their employer but that's not possible. I'm sure people who want a professional network will go to LinkedIn or similar, but if there's a way to let users link to each other based on employer or location or specialization, that will help, Technical networking, for lack of a better term. I don't know about other employers, but in mine, though we have internal messengers, blogs, wikis etc, there's no real place to congregate online and discuss technology.
SG
Aham Brahmasmi!
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You can create a group account and have members join that group. The group then has its own discussion board.
You can also search the discussion boards for mentions of your company - just use the search box at the top right.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Following criticism of the acceptance of some articles it would appear that there may be some puppetry operating here[^].
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Not sure what I'm looking at there.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Not sure what I'm looking at there.
I believe Richard's hinting at how the author's lastname is the same as that of one of the 5-voters. It could be his wife or sister or someone in his family. But then I don't think there's anything wrong in that. If Smitha wrote an article and I thought it was good, I'd 5 vote it too.
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I think he is trying to tell about how an article was accepted though the code part was not presented in a PRE tag, instead an image was used.
Nothing related to voting!
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