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Well to be fair all he did in that post was refer to his website
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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That's really funny, let's see who's first to kill Chris himself.
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You need to edit the removed message note it to say "This is what happens to you when you do not follow the rules!"
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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So we'll have anarchy until the rules are restored!?
That's awesome!
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HAHAHA! Oh man, that is too funny. I wonder why nobody thought of "gee, what happens if I mark Chris' post as spam?" before and tried it.
Anyways, that really had me chuckling this morning!
Marc
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Maybe someone just did.
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And here I was all ready to praise Maunder for realizing that the idiots that message was intended for would never actually read it; and then mock him for hitting the delete button instead of the unpin one.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm giving you a flat look.
All fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sorry about that. I'll try not to do it again...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's all good, mate. It's my system. If it blows up in my face it's my fault, not yours.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah, but I don't get up in the morning intending to break it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The header should say: <"weatherdata xmlns="> not expected
, but in the List it says " not expected.
<"weatherdata xmlns=>" not expected[^]
But when I click on the question the header was shown correct, so they have opposite effect, and it should be consistent?
modified 13-May-15 17:34pm.
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Looks like the encoded the header. Odd. Or maybe we did. I'll add it to the TODO to check
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Have a look at Solution 1Random Generation string[^]
See the HTML?
Now edit the solution and see what generated it...
I suspect Markdown is really throwing a wobbly!
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From the Markdown Tips page:Quote: HyperlinksEither prefix the link by http:// to have it auto-linked, or wrap the link text in [] and the link URL by () to generate a hyperlink:
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Indeed - but not inside <pre> tags!
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Hello,
Most of the questions are usually off-topic (which would categorize them as either being too long to answer such as a question for another Tip or another Article as a whole or that they are too beginner-based that they cannot be answered in an easy way) or are a repost to the very same question that was asked before and OP did not even bother trying to search on Google or CodeProject before starting a new thread.
I would like to add a new suggestion to your "Todo" list for CodeProject. I do love the new changes that you are making, probably this one also would be a "worth a shot!". The suggestion was to (since the questions are still available) add a redirect link (above the question's content) to the related article (if article can answer it), tip/trick (if a small code block is what OP wants) or to the previous question (if already answered!). Since OP is able to open the question thread, but comments and other posts are not accessible for him. This link would at least help him to go to the helpful material on CodeProject to accomplish the task.
I already had the same discussion with Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov sir, but I was not able to find to the thread on which we discussed (very old one) so I cannot post it here. The thing was to at least allow the OP to read the material on CodeProject meant for his approach on subject.
There doesn't need to be any more feature. Just add another list item in the flagging options for "Has an answer?" and allow us to vote (5 votes for selection of item might do the trick) for any other article, tip/trick or another question (personal or of a colleague) that would answer the question and close it (optional?). As Sergey has already mentioned in thread[^] that spam is not going down. It cannot, but at least it can be stopped from increasing anymore by adding this feature to stop such questions from getting any more attention by closing them and removing from the recent questions queue.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It sounds interesting, but the suggestion itself needs to be explained in more detail. What this item really means, what do you mean by "voting" (didn't you confuse it with posting a report?) what would be the action and how it can throttle the spam.
Also, I believe you don't mean real "spam", but rather the low-value (or negative-value) content, garbage, and so on. Is that what you mean?
—SASergey A Kryukov
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As already posted in the title, the posts which can be categorized in "Off-topic and repost questions" should be the candidates. If a post is spam, then it should be removed right away. As already is being done... So should the account for being a spammer.
This suggestion was for the questions which are off-topic because OP didn't find it necessary to search on Google or CodeProject for a solution. So, instead of answering the question in a very long way (and telling the OP to go and look at other threads) why not humbly add a link to his question where he (or any other user) can find the (already present) answer to the problem. Most of the questions are answered with simply just the URL to answer (Sad, but I have been culprit in this manner also). Which is not what Questions and answers forums should be (IMO).
Questions should only be answered in a manner that they are actually answered. If only the URL to an old article, tip/trick has to be posted then it should be attached to the question itself (and should be closed and removed from questions queue).
I didn't target spam. Spam check is correct (although with more relaxation however) I was talking about questions that are not spam. As already said, "Spam should go away along with the spammer".
Correct. I mean those questions which can be redirected to an already present answer or article. Reducing redundant posts in queue and other forums. Such questions are laziness of OP and should be treated as such. They should not be allowed to float in the queue taking all space of an interesting question that might be helpful to the community. There is a lot of content for beginners on CodeProject, and such questions must be redirected to their related articles or tips or previous questions.
As far as voting is concerned I didn't mean current voting of 5 stars. You're right, I mean the report. To allow user to report a question for being a duplicate (repost) of other question and thus if a number of reports go for that, question should be closed.
The implementation would be similar to ones available right now. Right now, we hover over "Off-topic" and after 3 votes it gets close and next time the thread contains a warning message telling the reader that this thread is closed due to this problem by this user. Similar can be applied to state, this thread is closed because this question already has a solution at this {article, tip/trick, question}. Which would perform similarly, but in a manner that it would also help the OP (if he is really looking for help).
I remember you once also talked about same suggestion to at least allow the OP to read the comments added to the post. Those comments (as far as I have seen) also forward the OP to another thread having a solution, or they ask him for what he has done. Answer on the threads are (similarly) just URLs to other threads (unnecessary).
This is what I meant to implement. It is not about spam, but about those posts which are already answered and are reposted because OP did not search for a solution himself.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I would be careful about it.
First of all, as you know, we already have "off-topic", "Re-post", "Not an answer", and so on. First of all, spam "removed right away" can be dangerous, especially in combination with "spam should go away with spammer". We don't have "right away" approach, we have something like "near-consensus" approach. Remember that we all can do mistakes in assessments. Also, I faced with some nastiest abusers who, among other things, report other members for abuse. Even the spam post cannot be removed immediately. Note that we have the status of "closed" question, which is not the same as ""removed". Spam post, closed but not removed, serves as a spam evidence. Say, I can trust some members, those like you, but I cannot trust many other members.
Now, about attaching of the link to the question. Look thoroughly. Some of the "answer" links are total bogus. How it can improve this situation if they are attached to the question (they are already attached, but you suggest attachment in some other way). I think it would be dangerous to classify questions into "actual answers" and "only the URL". Yes, I am irritated by many too trivial answers, but the answers cannot be compared formally, "only the URL" or not. In some special cases, one single URL can still be a real breakthrough, and sometimes the "real" answer of the size of the article could be a total bogus. The answers should be judged subjectively, based in these real value.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Coming to your dangerous point of view. Yes, I have been through this condition once. Worst condition if I must describe it because my account got locked 2 times due to these users who would report my account. Anyways, (as you suggested me then) I ignore them. Best way to ignore such conditions. I thank you for that suggestion.
Removing a post would never be a good choice. User must be shown (if he claims to be back on CodeProject) his own posts that he must not post "spammy" posts again. Posts with off-topic and repost types are not a problem which would forward the account into deletion category. They should be just closed. (Already implemented!)
Moving back to above (first) paragraph, I did suggest (quite months ago) that user should be allowed to see how many reports he has been targeted with. So that he can request a review for these flags by other users and that they can be removed before user is removed automatically due to heavy spam reports about him. I hope to see this function soon, because it would help most of us (good members) to be able to prevent our self being blocked due to these spammers and their fellows.
I did not mean to add the URL to the question post itself. I meant the same functionality that is implemented yet. Just to show the message under the closed question, stating that this post already has a solution present there (somewhere). Also classifying the question and "Answered" or "Solved" was not my intention, my intention was to simply close the question and for OP or other visitors, show the message (like it is shown for off-topic or similar questions saying) that this question already has a solution here. Sometimes users ask questions like, "How to draw a curve in Windows Forms". Giving him a simple solution for Graphics would be enough. But posting the same thing under answers (which is possibly already available under Tip or Article) would not be good. Why not credit the author who has already tried his best in solving the riddle? Why not give the link to such questions (that can target the users coming through Google) to the article and tip that can answer to such a question in (best) possible way(s).
My intent is not to simply post a plain URL with HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Instead it is that the OP should be able to see that the solution is present. I remember you saying, "Spoon-feeding members is not good way to help!". Similarly, if a user really does want to learn. He would benefit from that external source (tip or article) also. If he just wanted code dump, then even if we post the answer there (duplicated) he would still not learn anything. You can take that post we started this discussion over. 60+ questions and still he asked such a vague question. Answering him in a non-bogus way would be an injustice to our experience and time we have spent learning these frameworks (IMO).
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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All right, I think your observations are generally correct and valuable, but suggestions need thinking. They should be viewed based on holistic approach. And I would not risk big changes.
So far, the most interesting suggestion is the ability to see the report counts.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Yes these are just suggestions and I did not mean to do a complete development of everything from scratch, but just "If possible". Even I find that one (flag reports count) helpful, and hope to see that one soon.
Thank you sir.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Yes, I know; thank you for the discussion. Apparently, there is a room for many improvements. And the overwhelming number of low-quality or abusive posts in this forum is a big problem.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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