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OK, so what I'm asking for is different: A "default settings" for posting messages on forums.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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| Actually, I think what you're asking is a "Update my settings to reflect the settings for this message" button. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think what Rajesh wants could be explained by:
on the settings page/forum tab:
"Choose the default values for the checkboxes that will appear on the reply message page when creating or editing a reply to a forum message."
and on the reply page:
"Choose how this message should be handled; changes will not influence older nor future messages. If this is a new message, these checkboxes got their default from the corresponding checkboxes on your settings page/forum tab; if this is an existing message, they reflect your earlier choices."
PS: I yield all rights on the above; feel free to improve the wording as long as it remains very clear.
 Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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What Luc said!
I need the site to remember my "default settings" for posting a message on the forums. My defaults are to have everything else enabled except "allow private email replies".
If I change those settings for a particular message for some reason (like, I didn't want to be notified of replies for that SINGLE post), then I will uncheck the "send me an email if yada yada" option. This must have no effect when I post the next message (I must see the defaults).
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Luc Pattyn wrote: however changing them while editing an existing message has limited or no effect, not sure, I never understood why nor what was going on here.
The reason was that people were coming back and saying "suddenly my options are now X for no reason". When members were editing messages and changing those settings, and when we were storing those changed settings, it was getting everyone confused. So we stopped.
Luc Pattyn wrote: or get them disabled and differently styled when not changable
The settings are always changeable for a given message. I think what you're after is a "persist the changes I've made to my settings for ever and ever" button.cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I think what you're after is...
Not really, I almost never change those checkboxes, because I don't feel a need and don't understand them well enough. If I'm after anything, it is getting a sentence or two explaining it well where ever those checkboxes are visible.
 Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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i entered my username and password today..
but i got the message that the information for your account is not found..
i have created a new account with same email address..
jus want to know why you deleted my account??
wats the reason??
it has jus made me a lil sad what you have done with me..
i hope atleast you would tell me what was the reason for deleting my account..
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Have you been doing things like abusing others, down-voting articles/answers without proper reasoning, posting irrelevant material, etc., or any combination of such activities thereof?
In my few years here, I've never seen an account being disabled unless he's being a notorious troll.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Your account was one of a number of accounts created using the same IP address within a short time of each other that had partipated in voting abuse. This breached our Terms of Use and the accounts were removed.
I'm more than happy to discuss this privately with you if you wish.cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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now i would like to delete my account by maself..
thanks for ya response...
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Someone seems to be creating multiple accounts to downvote Christain's articles. See here[^], for an example.
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Well spotted Leslie, I'm sure Chris etc... will deal with it soon. In the meantime I have reported them as abuse.
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| Thank you. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Could we get that morons votes removed? I suspect that it's arvinder_aneja back again; he had a real beef with Christian and he trolled CGs accounts univoting them."WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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| I just finished them off in the linked article, but going through all his other articles to clean up manually would be a PITA. 3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Perhaps this dingbat works for Telstra."WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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More likely than not the dingbat, as you call him, is working for or somehow related to at least one of:
Telstra, Microsoft (Bing, Vista, Weven, WPF, VB.NET, MsnMessenger, Visual Designer, ...), Fiji, FireFox, QANTAS, Wii, YouTube, Norton Ghost, eBay, Godaddy, Jetstar, ... the list goes on.
Sometimes search[^] works just fine on CodeProject  Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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They were removed. The remaining low votes are legitimate (well, depends on your viewpoint...) votes.
Everyone's entitled to their opinions...cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Accounts that are not older than 3 months should not have the privilege to vote on an article, or on programming forums (if they posted a query, they could be allowed to vote ONLY on answers given to their query).
If the user racks up a reputation high enough which proves them to be some sort of a genuine member within 3 months, then he could be allowed to vote.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
modified on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:36 AM
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Accounts that are older than 3 months should not have the privilege
should we all create new accounts every 3 months? you probably mean something quite different...Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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Ah, thanks. I did mean something different; see the modified message.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Accounts can be created freely and well in advance, so limiting on account age only would probably be ineffective and result in even more accounts.
I would limit voting based on reputation difference:
- people can upvote anything they like, upvoting here means adding a vote that equals or exceeds the current average;
- people can downvote anything they dislike provided their relevant reputation is at least equal to
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100 + 0.3 * AR where AR is the relevant author's reputation. And downvoting here means adding a vote that is below the current average.
Examples:
- everyone can vote a 5 everywhere (a 5 will not lower the current average)
- everyone can vote a 4 on material that has an average vote of 2 or 3.5 or 4
- to vote a 2 on an article with a rating of 3.8 by an author with author rep = 1000 one needs author rep 400
- to vote a 1 on a programming forum message with a rating of 5 by an author with authority rep = 10,000 one needs authority rep 3,100
Extra idea: to add a vote (articles only, not messages) that differs by more than 1 from the average, a message is required. This should replace the "explain your 1 or 2 vote" rule.
>)Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: - everyone can vote a 5 everywhere (a 5 will not lower the current average)
- everyone can vote a 4 on material that has an average vote of 2 or 3.5 or 4
That might lead to voting abuse the other way round. What if someone creates accounts to vote their own articles?! I know this is a very unlikely case with smaller probability, but the system should be ready to handle it. So, the user will need reputation to up-vote as well. Unfortunately this may prevent a genuinely newbie user from upvoting an article that was useful to him/her.
Some more thoughts are needed on this.
Luc Pattyn wrote: Extra idea: to add a vote (articles only, not messages) that differs by more than 1 from the average, a message is required. This should replace the "explain your 1 or 2 vote" rule.
Good idea!
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: What if someone creates accounts to vote their own articles?!
No problem, people with reputation and insight will set that straight pretty soon.
One should only limit the really bad things, and the worst of all is a noob unrightfully downvoting the work and efforts of people who mean well.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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