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First I want to say that the new search is great! I love being able to search multiple boards and specify phrases! Thanks Chris! I have been experiencing some trouble with it though. After I do a search and am browsing through the results, I click on a result and start reading thread. The search hit post is fine, but if I click on any other posts in the thread, the page refreshes and I am at the first page of the message board, where the latest posts are. I also found that if, from there, I go forward to the post I was viewing, that the message I had clicked on is expanded. Anyone else notice this? Thanks!
Rachael
"It seems that we're getting to the bottom of the barrel of squirrels." - my boss
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Thanks Rachael - I'll try and sort out these problems tonight or tomorrow.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Am I missing something, or is there no way to search the articles by section? It's so annoying to sort through piles of ASP, C#, and whatever else code, when all I want to view are those topics dealing with MFC/C++.
Jim
QTExtender - The OFFICIAL addon for QuoteTracker.
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This is being added
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Sorry to disturb you Chris but how should I do a search say if I were to search for an article on C++? Cause you mentioned just now it has been added.
Thank you.
Regards,
Anthony
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The new wizard does automatic things when swithing to HTML code. THe most annoying is to add stuff in the code. For example it addes href="" to <a> tags. This is good in most situation but if you try to make anchors, you don't want that!
Jonathan de Halleux.
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Yeah - the HTML control does a *lot* of stuff I wish it wouldn't do. I'll see if I can update the auto-remove-Microsoft-crap filters in the script that drives the edit control.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hey
Several other forumsoftware (the famous vBulletin for one) have the option to abuse-report posts. CPs forums only have the option to rate posts. An abuse-reporting function would be rather nifty, so that we can throw out trolls like these http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/all_comments.asp?mode=all&userid=471512[^] more quickly.
I don't remember, but I belive, that there also is no new member filtering. IE, you can sign up with a fake adress as long as you remember your password. Having to authorize via a URL sent out in an email to the entered adress would filter out a lot of these trolls. It would also, however, slow down the process of registering if you're a legitimate person. :/
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How about an option for allowing a poster or suitable person (eg, an editor or admin?) to move posts/threads between forums?
That way if someone posts a programming question to the Lounge, the poster or suitable person can shift it (and any added replies) without the need for rating as 1 or having complaints about it.
This could also send an email to the poster indicating this had happened.
Might cause problems for anonymous posters though, if their posting moves and there's no way to notify them.
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Ian Darling
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I guess there are some moderators around and not just Chris alone.
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Good idea. 
Paul 
Garfield.Bark();<br />
---Configuration: garfield - Win32 Deworm---<br />
C:\garfield.cpp(9) : error C2039: 'Bark' : is not a member of 'CCat'<br />
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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The page that redirects to the main CP index.asp page? Which looks normal to me? Or are you referring to the picture of ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) ?
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Ian Darling
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No, actually, when I hit that link, it sent me to a page with the following:
#include <stdio.h>
tempo()
{
int long t;
for (t=0;t<1200000;t++);
}
main()
{
int BUG,c;
BUG=1;
while (BUG==1)
{
for (c=1;c<25;c++)
{
printf ("\nHey Admin");
tempo();
}
for (c=1;c<25;c++)
{
printf ("\nHey Admin Web Pirates Dominated");
tempo();
}
for (c=2;c<25;c++)
{
printf ("\nHey Admin Web Pirates Dominated your domain");
tempo();
}
}
/* Greetz
- Cyb3r Attack - Perfect.br - BHS - tty0 -
- Ph0ton - BaXiM_MsN - Saint Yet - BiGm0n3y - fr34k - BLAD3 - darkhell -
- Cyb3r_Quest - {{Ozzy_Lords}} - Gui_ - Chucrilhos - Spym4ng0ld - ...
and all of #web_pirates irc.brasnet.org
We are
B4dBi0s - Diazepan - E5P3CTR0 - Humanus - ice
Contact
web_pirates@mail.com
irc.brasnet.org /join #web_pirates
Click here visit us in IRC
BRAZIL rules */
}
Olorin
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Yeah that's what I am talking about. What Frank posted.
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It does not do that for me...
John
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Maybe the redirection is based upon some specific browser/Framework version?
F.
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OMG
Better send a mail to Chris about this.
It might be Chris's joke for all we know.
But it might also be some idiot script kiddies who somehow got access to the document root and stupidly uploaded their index.htm withoiut realizing that chris hasnt added index.htm to the default searh html documents list
Nish
"I'm a bit bored at the moment so I'm thinking about writing a new programming language" - Colin Davies
My book :- Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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Hey Nish, could you do that because I am new here and don't know much about it. I don't know how to explain it.
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Slaru wrote:
Hey Nish, could you do that because I am new here and don't know much about it. I don't know how to explain it.
Okay, I have communicated the matter to Chris Maunder (site admin) who has fixed the issue and now everything's back to normal 
Nish
"I'm a bit bored at the moment so I'm thinking about writing a new programming language" - Colin Davies
My book :- Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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But what it was anyway? I'm curious lol
Philip Patrick
Web-site: www.stpworks.com
"Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer
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Here's an idea which is vaguely plausable, probably really silly, with the reasoning below:
a) Sometimes the same questions get asked over and over, or are in an existing article or the C++ FAQ, and people are too lazy to look (and therefore, I'm too lazy to answer it  )
b) You can use Bayesian filtering to detect spam, because spam always meets one or more sets of criteria.
c) Therefore you can determine what the topic of the question is, because it will share properties with similar messages posted previously (literacy aside
d) If a message meets particular criteria, then it's concievable that you can tie the resulting topic to various articles or previous answers in the forums.
e) If an email can be determined as spam, then so can "please do my homework" questions.
f) If a programming question gets asked in the Lounge, then a filter can redirect (or suggest it is redirected) it to a more appropriate group.
Then we can ignore previously answered questions, because we have some sort of automatic response expert system which can provide useful information initally, and then the people in the forums can assist with more specific details which are easier to handle.
We can also suggest to the homework brigade[^] that they might want to actually attempt the problem first, and ask for help on specific problems 
Of course, it may just be that doing this turns Bob into SkyNet, so maybe we shouldn't
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Ian Darling
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If anyone wants to write a word matching component in .NET that I can plug into the forums (ie just a component that I can feed messages to and it will pip them as good or bad) then that would be nice
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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How about having an option to show only unanswered threads in the forums? That's generally what I look for when I visit.
Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Ryan Binns wrote:
How about having an option to show only unanswered threads in the forums?
I tried asking for the same thing quite some time ago, but most of the response I got dealt with whether a question had actually been "answered."
One of my rants in the soapbox long ago was when someone would ask the question "does anyone know how to ..." and someone would respond "no, I don't know how to do that." Well, the question has a "response," but not an "answer."
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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