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I am wondering if there are plans to finally roll out support for allowing article writers to moderate comments on their article. Of course I don't expect that all us authors will get ability to moderate - but if you are above certain threshold, you should be able to moderate.
And not only this would allow good article writers to easily battle with trolls and content that's simply not appropriate on the page where there article is - it would be good motivation to keep writing.
modified 21-Aug-12 19:40pm.
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Sorry - my bad. Can some admin move it there? As long Chris responds, I am happy.
Let me know if you can't move it, we can then delete the topic and I can copy paste text for new thread there.
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One of the site administrators will proberbly move it  Or you could just post the identical post over there, and the moderators could delete this one
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Eh - need to everything by myself... lazy developer I am... 
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 Thats what our programs are all about. We dont want to do the same thing twice 
modified 21-Aug-12 23:02pm.
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Well said my friend.
I can't wait for some fancy brainwave detector to replace keyboard and mouse - all this will be much easier 
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You obviously have forgotten the tale of the sorcerer's apprentice[^], and the old (allegedly Chinese) saying "Be careful what you wish for. You might receive it."
If some data entry magic started typing my thoughts when I was editing code, the result would be, shall we say politely, uncompilable. 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Chasing through some of your univotes located this idiot.
So I did this[^], it will probably have a better result than posting in the Lounge.
A lot of us have a dipstik troll through the article and univote, CM will rectify the rep if he is asked.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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How did you find out that? I think I might have a stalker on my tail too. Not the articles that is.
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Because he was bitching about a univoter and having dealt with my own univoter[^] I checked his profile, looked at some of the comments on his articles and picked on a down vote, followed that to the voter profile, checked the number of messages and saw that he had posted 4 messages, 3 univotes so I looked at the messages and the content is rubbish to support the univote.
I know it is convoluted but you can find some amazing information if you are willing to rat around for a while.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So, I have my settings so that I don't receive emails when someone replies to my message, and this seemed to be how notifications were controlled. Now I'm seeing notifications to forum posts, as well as Quick Answers. Why?
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Look Here.[^]
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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You're seeing the notifications in your notifications dropdown, or getting emails in response to members posting answers?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That's by design.
/big sigh.
Shall I add a "don't save notifications in my inbox" checkbox?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'd hate to add to your work load so I'll leave it to you.
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Thinking about it, I can see value to the notifications coming from certain locations, but should they really be present for posts in the community forums? I can see the benefit to replies from the C# forum, etc, but the Lounge? Perhaps these could be excluded.
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The reason we introduced it was specifically for forums such as the lounge. Members were missing out on emails, either through network issues, blocks on private email access, or overactive anti-spam extortionists and so they wanted to know when there was a notification.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hmmm, I would have thought the lounge was the least important one. After all, the help all goes on in the other forums, the QA and the articles.
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There's this weird "socialising" thing going on in the Lounge.
I dunno, but when I was a lad, developers did not socialise. It's all getting a little weird...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Damn right. Should be a battle. After all, the collective term for developers is "a bitchy".
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I'm happy to make the change to ditching the extension, though I can't see how it affects anything other than sensibilities. We made the decision many, many years ago to have extensions on messages, but with the newer SEO friendly URLs on articles we took the chance to ditch them. If you were in charge of a site that had many, many inbound links, how willing would you be to change the URLs of those inbound links for a purely cosmetic reason? It can be done, and reasonably easily, but what would the total effect be?
As to the second issue, the forum that the message takes you to has text above it saying 'Discussions on this specific version of this article". So the permalink took you to exactly the place it should have: the specific version of that article.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: the forum that the message takes you to has text above it saying 'Discussions on this specific version of this article"
That depends, actually. If I go to the latest version of the article, I see a forum with the header "Comments and Discussions" and no explanatory text. Now, if I click the permalink button on my message, I am directed to the specific version of the article, and then the explanatory text says "Discussions on this specific version of this article. Add your comments on how to improve this article here. These comments will not be visible on the final published version of this article." Also, I only ever see one forum. Should there be a second forum that is version agnostic?
Chris Maunder wrote: It can be done, and reasonably easily, but what would the total effect be?
Perceived better professionalism. Keeping things consistent helps your brand. Can you tell I work in a marketing department? 
Also, if you go extensionless now, you can always change the technology later (e.g., to MVC) and not worry about changing it again (well, unless that technology requires an extension).
And if you do remove the extension, you may want to consider doing an HTTP 301 redirect from the old extensions. That way, search engines will point to the new location and you avoid having two sets of valid links to the same content (a situation that can harm your SEO).
Chris Maunder wrote: If you were in charge of a site that had many, many inbound links, how willing would you be to change the URLs of those inbound links for a purely cosmetic reason?
Depends. I have tons of free time to do this, right? Just like you? 
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