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Good timing. I fixed this bug last night and will hopefully be releasing it later today
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Great
Not really a bug
Its just a way to make it better 
Alexei Rodriguez
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If someone lists a co-author, put the article in purgatory (it won't even show up in the article moderation panel) until ALL of the listed co-authors approve of being listed as co-authors.
A listed co-author would get an email with a link to a page that allows him to
1) review the article
2) one of three actions to perform in response to the article:
a) allow (lists him as a co-author)
b) deny (removes him from being listed as a co-author, maybe because the article isn't to his liking
c) deny and report (if the co-author listing is fraudulent)
This will prevent needless crap like what we saw today:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/Percentage_Javascript.aspx[^]
from "Member 3198854"
This was intentional abuse of the site.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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And we had another article like that this morning. Tht makes three that I know of since article moderation started.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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How about:
An article can have whatever co-authors specified as the original author wishes. When the article is posted an email is sent to all co-authors with two links. One link confirms they are to be a co-author and ads them. The other link deletes the article.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Sounds good to me, but it also seems that you'd want to know when someone is abusing the co-author system, hence the "deny/report" option.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Chris Maunder wrote: One link confirms they are to be a co-author and ads them. The other link deletes the article.
I think the 2nd link should just remove the member as co-author and not delete it. Deletion might be harsh especially if the first author mistyped the 2nd author's id or something like that.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: b) deny (removes him from being listed as a co-author, maybe because the article isn't to his liking
This, I feel, is redundant. Why would you need a tristate in this case? Wouldn't a binary fashion suffice?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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I noticed that in IE, when you hover the cursor over a bar, you will see number of votes and percent. This does not happen in FF. Is this due to a problem with FF?
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No, it's due to a problem in IE (it's not supposed to show the actual number of votes). 
BTW, the percentages are incorrect. I tried it on one of my articles with 21 votes. 14 were 5's, but the percentage read "100%". Now, I'm really no math whiz, but that looks more like 66% to me. The other seven votes showed incorrect percentage values as well.
I also don't understand why it only counts "recent data", when all of the numbers are obviously there...
Did you outsource this code Chris?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
modified on Friday, April 25, 2008 10:34 AM
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Yep - the percentages are wrong and I've fixed that (next release).
We only have recent data because previously we weren't storing individual vote values, just aggregates. As of Dec 4, 2007 we are storing all votes
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ahhhhh, so only articles posted since Dec 4 will have all of the numbers.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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So is it possible to fix this for FF?
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I'll fix this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Whilst editing profile, in the 'Name/Alias' column, there are always extraneous whitespaces that are prefilled.
Any one else experiencing this issue?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Somebody ban this[^] numbskull please.
Cheers,
Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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His profile now shows 'cleaned up'. [0 messages and 0 articles]. Most probably an account 'soft reset' has been issued on it.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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This guy deserves a hard reset. His crap messages keep popping up on my articles. Chris, how about siccing your lawyers on the sites he advertises?
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Chris, how about siccing your lawyers on the sites he advertises?
It'll be hard to prove an association. For example, someone could start advertising Company A without Company A's knowledge.
Maybe we need Captcha.
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OK I'm not visually impaired but I am a bit of a thicky, but I can never remember what some of the smileys are supposed to mean (particularly cool/suspicious) - can we have alt text for them in posts?
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I believe, it shows right?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Wrong, sadly (at least for me in IE 7). Take for example. Hover your mouse over it - no alt text.
(Also, have a look in the HTML - no alt tag for the Smiley)
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Yep. I observed. But I was actually referring to the list of smileys displayed at the bottom of Message Text Box. 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Will be available next release
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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<img> tags should probably have alt and title attributes, since FF uses title instead of alt for the tooltip (not sure which attribute IE looks at these days).
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