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If you use CPHog, there's a script that will show the original post. Clickety[^]
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I would like a third item near "Report this post as 1.Abuse, 2.Spam" and that would be 3. Wrong forum. (I know we cannot extend the list endlessly but it could suffer a 3rd item without problem I think.). Maybe we could even sum up Abuse and Spam into "Inappropriate" or "Mark to Delete", since both of them end up with the same result: the message is deleted. Unlike "Abuse", "Spam" or "Inappropriate", "Wrong Forum" would simply indicate to an admin (here _you_ choose how to implement it on the backside, Chris ) that the post must be moved. It has the advantage of "unpolluting" forums such as subtle bugs or coding horrors (or even the Lounge) that get very often programming questions, actually, and does not leave this "Message deleted" post that nobody likes.
[edit] OK, by reading further more in the suggestion forum, I understood the difference between abuse and spam. Let it be so for these both. But the wrong forum suggestions remains. [/edit]
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I think the options near the footer are going to be endless. I would say we can compress this menu as Report. When the user clicks on it, popup a child menu with Options like
1) Spam
2) Abuse
3) Vote (preferably a slider control)
4) Move Requested
and more ... (subject to screen real estate restrictions)
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Hi everyone,
I find it quite odd that after logging in I'm redirected to CP's front page.
For example: I receive a post in my article's forum; I view it and wish to reply to it. I enter my credentials to the form at the top of the page... and go the the CP's front. But I should stay at the same page I was! At least, my web experience tells me so.
Best regards,
- Dmitry.
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Listen up! Teamwork means staying out of my way! (Seifer, Final Fantasy 8).
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True. I have observed this too. From a messageboard 'Signin ' link, it takes me to login page. Post signin page, when I expect the previous URL (HTTP_REFERER) to be reloaded with logon cookie, it gives me CodeProject homepage.
Workaround:
1) Select the Down Arrow in the Back button of your browser.
2) Select the second item in the displayed history stack.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Workaround:
1) Select the Down Arrow in the Back button of your browser.
2) Select the second item in the displayed history stack.
I know this ) and do all the time. But it is still quite distracting.
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Listen up! Teamwork means staying out of my way! (Seifer, Final Fantasy 8).
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Dmitry Khudorozhkov wrote: quite distracting
I appreciate your diplomatic way of expressing. In a very frank opinion, particularly in a hurry, it just intimidates the user like anything. If it could be addressed at priority considering the havoc on user experience, it would be really great and CPians would be grateful to the team.
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Dmitry Khudorozhkov wrote: logging in
So you sometimes log out from CP ?!
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Rage wrote: sometimes
During periodic schedules of Garbage Collection in my system when I clear my cache, Autocomplete, old History etc, after taking necessary backups of favorites and other things.
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I didn't know you could. I'm going to delete that from my memory banks now.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Rage wrote: So you sometimes log out from CP ?!
My Firefox cleans all private data on exit. It's called "privacy"
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Listen up! Teamwork means staying out of my way! (Seifer, Final Fantasy 8).
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An oldie but a goodie. Yes, this will definitely be fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks
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Listen up! Teamwork means staying out of my way! (Seifer, Final Fantasy 8).
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Jeffrey Walton wrote: Reference (two of the five 'Best Picks' articles): C# Utility for keeping a domain PC off of the network[^] and Cracking the Mysteries of .NET 2.0 Configuration[^].
Both worked correctly on firefox
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N a v a n e e t h wrote: firefox
What resolution are you using? I saw scroll bars for the code. I am on 1280x1024 with FF and see the problem.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Hi N a v a n e e t h,
You did not have to scroll hard right to read the articles?
Jeff
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They are both unedited reader contributions. The editors will go in there and fix it when they get a chance.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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I wonder what they did to get it wrong, which also means I wonder why my article submissions
(probably) dont do this when I enter them. Could you please provide the necessary information
in "how to write an article" if it is not already there; and explain if it is.
[Edit: that's the use of the P tag I guess]
TIA.
-- modified at 3:50 Tuesday 24th July, 2007
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Hi Luc,
Luc Pattyn wrote: Could you please provide the necessary information
in "how to write an article" if it is not already there; and explain if it is.
It is already there... See Submission Guidelines. There is even a tool to use to check for the issue (if the author is too lazy to Preview the article).
Jeff
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Thanks.
I forgot the details completely, I studied it when I started my first article; since then
I just copy the file and replace the text, paragraph after paragraph.
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It's a little tricky (not impossible, just a little time consuming) to work out how to find the width of a block of potentially poorly formatting and improperly formed HTML.
9.5 times out of 10 it's just a line of code in a PRE tag that's too wide.
The best thing to do for articles such as these is to use the 'broken article' link at the top and report it to an editor
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It seems like we get the same questions over and over in the programming forums, and no one wants to search. What about a page with hyperlinks with some of these common questions. Like "How do I insert a record with a datagrid?"
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Flea Market! It's just like...it's just like...A MINI-MALL!
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Like an FAQ?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hey, I started collecting the answers to those popular questions that I was answering to,
so I wouldnt have to retype the answers over and over (or search for the link!).
Right now I have 11. I wasnt sure yet whether I should turn them into an article.
I guess a few of us together would soon have a couple hundred of them. That's too many
to just put in a sequential FAQ.
So I would suggest a structured FAQ, not just a list of Q&A, but a few multiple-choices
first to get to the right sub-FAQ. (less than 30 to avoid "wrong FAQ" situations).
Alternative 1: use checkboxes to show/hide some topics (database, networking,
language-specific, etc; similar to the advanced forum search) If so, I want cookies
to keep up to three preferred choices.
Alternative 2: not my favorite, would be a regular search engine on top of a flat FAQ.
And then one needs to make sure the content of the FAQ is trustworthy, without long discussions and lots of small additions... Who could be responsible for FAQ content ?
Is it possibe to organize the FAQ as a forum ??
I like the FAQ idea, but it seems its approach needs some functional analysis...
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