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I think the dire need of the hour is to combat the following menace which growing like anything currently.
1) Cross Posts
2) Multiple Posts
A few of the old CPians take the pain of replying it with a message "Cross Post (Ignore)" for the benefit of other CPians to other save other CPians falling prey to these tricksters. I just thought if there could be some option where geographically distributed moderators can make a 'Lock Post'/'Disable Post'. Once the post is locked/disabled, it can only gather votes to die out or save itself in case of wrong categorization.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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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 second that.
Once flagged as a cross/multiple post, it should be impossible to reply any more,
or to modify the post. Voting and delete-by-owner should be the only remaining options.
There is no need to reward the cross/multiposter with a link to his original post...
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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What about those that genuinely post a Question in the C# forum only to be advised it would be better answered in the ASP.NET or SQL forums?
A genuine mistake and this locking makes them look bad.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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OK, so give the owner a button to move the entire thread to the appropriate forum?
Maybe a better alternative: provide a "new link" button next to the "new message" button,
so a poster can post once, and can add a link in a second forum if he really feels the need.
A link would:
- not accept any text or replies where the link is
- when clicked, navigate to the original post
Anything, as long as it saves us from all these "wrong forum", "multiple post",
"cross-post but answering anyway" replies scattered all over the place.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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I don't know if it's wise to make cross-posting so easy. :P
I can imagine this being seriously abused. I think the "move thread" option is much a much safer idea.
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Of course the "new link" button would flag the cross-post as such, allowing everyone
to ignore it right away if they choose. I know I would.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: make a 'Lock Post'/'Disable Post'
But that would take the fun out of the "don't cross post" postings
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Hi guys,
Since there are many articles about WPF, WCF, and few WF, now I think CodeProject forum really needs new categories about WPF, WCF and WF.
Also I think these technologies won't fit into Vista category, since they are specific to .NET 3.0 and 3.5.
Any suggestions are welcome!
Best regards,
Eriawan K.
RX Communica
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We are reworking the section lists soon.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks.
Is it possible to have a feed (RSS) for each section? What I love to do is that I wanna feed some sections (e.g. Web development, ASP.NET, C#, Lounge and etc) in my iGoogle..
Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
"Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."
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Good idea.
Added to The List
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I replied to the thread start but my message got added in the middle in the wrong place. here is the link to the Thread[^]. The replies in the thread that follows mine is not replied to my message but to the one above me. If you look at the message posted time you will find it.
- Regards -
JON
Life is not measured by the amount of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks.
- Regards -
JON
Life is not measured by the amount of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Hi
Does any one know Why we cant attach a file with our messages? is it possible or not?
Thanks
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Because that would start taking up the bandwidth and storage space of CP.
And there's people out there that would abuse this sort of thing. Besides, there's free file hosts, like stashbox and some other places.
My current favourite word is: PIE!
Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
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How about an auto spell check on all my posts to replace 'teh' with 'the' as I am tired of having to modify nearly every post I make as I find yet another 'teh' in there.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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Malcolm Smart wrote: an auto spell check
Or at least like Windows Live, it must indicate the erring words with little underlines, the right click of which can display suggestions. A little AJAX is that required for the implementation of the same.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the ready cash. USE IT.
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You could just be a little more careful to type the, instead of teh.
And anyway, the CP members can be your spell check 
My current favourite word is: PIE!
Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
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The Undefeated wrote: And anyway, the CP members can be your spell check
That would be like a ferocious devouring of a lamb by a hungry tiger!
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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You could always use Firefox and the spellcheck plugin.
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I use a spell checker within IE to solve that problem.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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ieSpell?
I actually prefer WordWeb Free. Anytime, we ought to select the word and exercise a CTRL+W (the chosen shortcut) to get the meaning or suggestions for the misspelt word.
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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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: ieSpell?
Yes. Been using it for years with nary a problem.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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