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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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David Chamberlain wrote:
someone would ask the question "does anyone know how to ..." and someone would respond "no, I don't know how to do that."
I hate that, but thankfully I haven't seen it happen for a long time. Perhaps the person who started a thread could go back and somehow mark the message as being answered.
I guess I look at it from the point of view that most of the time, a response is *an* answer, maybe not the best one, but I look for posts without responses first, and then look to see if I can help with questions that already have some responses, but whose responses may have left out some information by mistake (or ignorance, it doesn't really matter).
 that's a long sentence... 
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:
but I look for posts without responses first, and then look to see if I can help with questions that already have some responses, but whose responses may have left out some information
I skip that first part. I just read through (until I get tired of it) to see if there is an area that I am familiar enough with to add something that hasn't already been said. I also look to see what I can learn from other people's answers.
The point of my initial request was that with so many questions being posted, a post can drop down into the list very quickly, and it may go onto page 4 before anyone has responded. With a list of those questions that have had no responses, it either is a difficult topic, one that no one has any experience with, or one that no one knowledgeable has seen. I wanted to keep those visible and in front of people.
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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I'm all for it, if we can do it, but it might be a little hard, for reasons discussed above. 
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Jesus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
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It would be far too difficult to discriminate between answered quesions and those that merely have "Me, too!" replies. Additionally, most of the time when a valid answer is provided to a question, the original poster doesn't even respond with with an acknowledgement, so it's very hard to tell if the query has been answered, or the poster has simply given up. It's hard to imagine a script capable of acheiving the kind of filtering required with any reliability.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long
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That's all true, but I think it would still be useful. After all, I'd want to be able to view unanswered ones as well - you'd just use whichever setting you want to use.
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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Roger Wright wrote:
Additionally, most of the time when a valid answer is provided to a question, the original poster doesn't even respond with with an acknowledgement, so it's very hard to tell if the query has been answered, or the poster has simply given up.
I find that very annoying especially when I give an extended solution.
John
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