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Jeffrey Walton wrote: Neena
And shouldn't she stays with a membership Bronze? Only 11 posts to get Silver?! 
Maxwell Chen
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Maxwell Chen wrote: Only 11 posts to get Silver?!
I think the level changes should go through a moderation. The weekly service that runs to convert levels should now check one more condition like moderator flagged the account as good.
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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Dealt with
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thank you. But Chris. I just thought of suggesting you to consider having geographically distributed moderators. Perhaps you can start off by having sections of the website moderated by CP MVPs. I guess they should be distributed across timezones.
That way the entire load would not hit the central Toronto team all-in-the morning. Besides this, when we have more such control, the poor server need not serve the stench from such bad swine and we can nip it in the bud.
Even when we report such nuisance, I am sure, the reporter should have felt a bit down since it would come to your desk on Monday morning. As a developer we would not mind recieving a lot of feature requests since we feel glad that our product is getting fans but when it comes to reports, it is for sure, a little negative effect. Isn't it?
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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Every article and every message has a "Report" button. Please use it.
Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: Even when we report such nuisance, I am sure, the reporter should have felt a bit down since it would come to your desk on Monday morning
I know I plead the weekends but who are we kidding here? I'm on 24/7
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I was just thinking that sometimes article submissions are voted down because:
a. There's no real content, just code, from a foreign person
b. The article content is in a language other than English
What if CP had a cultural area (sub-domains even) where non-English writing members could upload their articles and code? It may solve part of the skeleton article uploads and give some people a chance to create an article that they're comfortable with.
Just a thought.
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Unfortunately we don't have the resources to handle multi-lingual articles.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I think you're point 'a' is a very good reason why they are voted down, there is no excuse for just posting code, or in a lot of cases recently not even that, just the article submissions contents.
They deserve more than just voting down, but unfortunately you're not allowed to do that to people so easily anymore.
regards,
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At times when we encounter the message 'Items need attention. It appears the message is already posted in the forum', the only ways to come back to the forum are:
1) Use browser back button crossing the big OK/CANCEL onBeforeUnload prompt of web browser.
2) Use the cancel button and come back to plain page. Then again use the same cancel button to come back to the thread and then refresh the page to see the thread.
I think, step (2) should be corrected in such a way that CANCEL button should redirect to the forum page with the thread in question being displayed.
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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A better option that we will add is to have a breadcrumb trail.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thank you. That should be really excellent since it provides still enhanced navigational ease for the user through the available paths.
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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Not sure if this is something you know about, but in some articles, a // comment in a [pre] block creates a newline that shouldn't be there, for example here[^]. The newlines are in the HTML that the "Get article's HTML" link returns, but they aren't in my original HTML.
Extra newlines aren't appearing in this article[^], though.
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Yes, we're aware that some articles had problems but it's been hard to reliably find them
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Is it not possible, in your 404 error page, to check the requested URL and if it ends with article.asp and equivalent article.aspx exists, suggest that one or automatically redirect to that page?
Old links in other websites don't work. We know how to solve the issue, but those who are new to CP don't.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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We do exactly this and way more. We have 19,000 redirects in place and go as far as ensuring that even querystring values are corrected and replaced so that old bookmarked messages should still get you to the right place.
If you find an old link that's busted let me know and I see why it isn't in the list. I did another run through yesterday and found 42 that were missing. There are also a couple dozen posted around early December that I think may be missing but haven't had a chance to check
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris.
Chris Maunder wrote: If you find an old link that's busted let me know
This didn't work: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/cserialcom.asp[^]
[modified]Spotted in this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/gps_support.aspx[^][/modified]
Chris Maunder wrote: why it isn't in the list.
Is there any reason to have a list? I'm new in ASP.net and was wondering to just get the URL and change the .asp with .aspx in the string and make (something like) a file exists, or similar .net file command, call locally and if it found, then redirect. This seems to have a problem that caused you to maintain a list. Would you please tell me the trick or reason?
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
modified on Friday, March 14, 2008 3:26 PM
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The reason is that the entire section list for the site changed which meant articles were moved to different directories, and some sections were split so that some articles from the same directory were moved to different directories.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/cserialcom.aspx[^] won't work because this was never a valid URL in the first place. The correct original URL is http://www.codeproject.com/system/cserialcom.asp[^] which is redirected correctly.
Our problem is that we have some article links that are relative to a section and so do not appear in our redirection table. We'll fix this
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris.
Thanks for your information. You're right the second link works. maybe the author of the article who provided the link, updated the link and forgot to change extension to .aspx.
Thank you.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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Hamed Mosavi wrote: forgot to change extension to .aspx
No problem. I think the CP 404 handler is really very versatile and magically transforms the classic ASP links onto the current ASP.NET framework hyperlinks.
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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Did I break it?
I'm having trouble navigating beyond the first page 
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Checked your date filter?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ack, indeed 
My brand-new post didn't show up on the first page and page 2 was empty.
Switching filter from 3 months to 6 months fixed it.
Thanks Chris,
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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CPHog sees to be looking for a missing image at http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Uploads/20101/greasebob_small.png. This seems cause pages where there are lots of posts from CPHog users to stall, sometimes showing a script timeout notification in FF 2.0.0.12
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Testing editing
Last modified: 74hrs 36mins after originally posted -- this is a test
led mike
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Yeah, I turned off CPHog and the problem went away immediately. The CPHog script is thrying to put a "cphog user" image next to the user icons for those of us that use it. Sadly, the image is not at the cp directory where it's looked for, so the script has to time out once for each cphog user...
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