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ChandraRam1-Oct-07 1:00

ChandraRam

1-Oct-07 1:00

Chris Maunder wrote:
Maybe we do this:

Add the ability to mark a question as "solved". We count the number of times a person deletes a question that's been marked "solved" and if it's over a threshold they get kicked for abuse.

Right... but who decides that it is "solved"? In all fairness to _normal_ posters, it should be the OP, but this doesnt solve the issue at hand.

Luc Pattyn1-Oct-07 1:20

Luc Pattyn

1-Oct-07 1:20

Chris Maunder wrote:
Maybe we do this:

Add the ability to mark a question as "solved". We count the number of times a person deletes a question that's been marked "solved" and if it's over a threshold they get kicked for abuse.

Who is to decide whether a problem is solved? IMO only the OP can do that. So how does
this help?

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Chris Maunder1-Oct-07 1:27

1-Oct-07 1:27

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Who is to decide whether a problem is solved

Either the poster (for a definitive "Solved" mark) or other readers (for a "N votes = solved" consensus). That way answers will, hopefully, get marked quickly, but we also allow and encourage others to mark answers as the solution which will then lock the question.

Yep - it's got holes, but it's a step

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Duplicate article listings on the latest updates page

Luc Pattyn1-Oct-07 1:41

Luc Pattyn

1-Oct-07 1:41

Chris Maunder wrote:
Either the poster (for a definitive "Solved" mark) or other readers (for a "N votes = solved" consensus). That way answers will, hopefully, get marked quickly, but we also allow and encourage others to mark answers as the solution which will then lock the question.

Yep - it's got holes, but it's a step

Hi Chris,

I don't think this will help at all:

IMO the disappearing messages are the ones that are not solved at all, but get removed:
- because some reply said "wrong forum"
- because the OP got aware and ashamed it was a silly question
- etc.

None of these would get a "solved" mark anyhow; questions that really got solved
by one or more good replies tend not to disappear AFAIK.

IMO the only category that may be covered by this is the question that did not get
answered but got solved by the OP using other means; I am afraid that is a small minority...

Maybe you should gather some statistics on disappearing messages (i.e. keep them, hidden,
for a while, and manually try to figure out why they got deleted).

Smile | :)

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Dan Neely28-Sep-07 10:34

Dan Neely

28-Sep-07 10:34

Most of hte articles I'm seeing here are listed twice in immediate succession.

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Re: Duplicate article listings on the latest updates page

Chris Maunder1-Oct-07 0:03

Re: Duplicate article listings on the latest updates page

1-Oct-07 0:03

Still happening?

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Dan Neely1-Oct-07 2:13

Dan Neely

1-Oct-07 2:13

yes.

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[BUG] Survey MailForm shows HTML Tags in Your Name:

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar28-Sep-07 4:23

Re: [BUG] Survey MailForm shows HTML Tags in Your Name:

28-Sep-07 4:23

Just went to Survey MailForm (Suggest a Survey) page. In the 'Your Name' textbox, I could see the name with HTML tags. I think it has just filled the profile name from database to the textbox. However, in this case and typically while filling it in textboxes, it can cut off the HTML tags. Isn't it?

The page URL is: http://www.codeproject.com/script/common/mailform.asp?option=Poll[^]

P.S.: HTML Tags in textboxes might also give rise to Script Injection Attacks. Isn't it?

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Chris Maunder1-Oct-07 0:13

Two unedited articles not showing

1-Oct-07 0:13

Fixed

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N a v a n e e t h27-Sep-07 2:30

27-Sep-07 2:30

I have written two article 1 year back.

1 - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/controllibrary.asp[^]
2 - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/smtpmail.asp[^]

But in my article listing page, these two articles are not listing. Please tell me how can I correct this ?

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar27-Sep-07 6:23

27-Sep-07 6:23

Navaneeth,

When I clicked the usericon of your message, I got the profile as this URL:

http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?id=1844917[^]

The Article Author has this profile URL: http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?vt=arts&id=2795733[^]

As an Article Author, you only have and 4 messages and 2 Articles.
As the Bug Poster, you have 1281 messages and 1 Article.

Does anything ring?

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N a v a n e e t h27-Sep-07 19:57

27-Sep-07 19:57

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
Does anything ring?

YES.. Both member number also different. Is it taking as different user names ? But I have only created the one what I am using now. And I wrote those from this userid only. Don't what's going wrong

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar27-Sep-07 22:54

27-Sep-07 22:54

I think different ids should mean different login names (login email addresses). You can email webmaster (at) codeproject.com so that your credentials can be advised. But I don't know whether CP can merge both your acccounts into one.

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N a v a n e e t h27-Sep-07 23:03

27-Sep-07 23:03

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
I think different ids should mean different login names (login email addresses)

But how ? I have not created the second one. Any way will mail to webmaster. Thanks for pointing this out

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Chris Maunder1-Oct-07 0:14

1-Oct-07 0:14

I passed this to Sean who should have emailed you about this. Is everything now sorted out?

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N a v a n e e t h1-Oct-07 18:19

Smarmy, annoying error message

1-Oct-07 18:19

Hi cris,

Thanks, It's not solved yet and I didn't get mail from Sean. Can you please check this out ?

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Member 9626-Sep-07 9:44

Member 96

26-Sep-07 9:44

Sometimes when I click on the Post Message button there is a long delay then I get this error message:

"An error has occurred
Sorry!
The maximum length of time our servers were willing to spend on your request has passed. They are extremely busy and ask that you let them take a quick breather before trying again."

It sounds like I've done something wrong and annoyed the servers who really have better things to do that service the users of CodeProject, it's far too smug and should be changed.

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Pete O'Hanlon26-Sep-07 9:50

Pete O'Hanlon

26-Sep-07 9:50

John Cardinal wrote:
It sounds like I've done something wrong and annoyed the servers who really have better things to do that service the users of CodeProject, it's far too smug and should be changed

You have done something wrong. You've annoyed the hamsters who are now in the thrall of Kyle.;P

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Paul Conrad26-Sep-07 16:43

Paul Conrad

26-Sep-07 16:43

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
annoy the hamsters

That is not a good thing to do.

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Chris Maunder26-Sep-07 15:51

26-Sep-07 15:51

Smarmy and annoying? Really?

Just trying to be a little lighthearted...

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Paul Conrad26-Sep-07 16:44

Paul Conrad

26-Sep-07 16:44

Just change it to something like: Hamsters went on break, be back in a few Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar26-Sep-07 20:34

26-Sep-07 20:34

Paul Conrad wrote:
went on break

Hopefully a brief coffee break only!! Big Grin | :-D

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Paul Conrad27-Sep-07 2:34

Paul Conrad

27-Sep-07 2:34

Yes, just a quick five minute one :-> ( but policy is there must be at least one at the server while the others go on break, and they rotate so no one gets ripped off a break Smile | :)

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