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This may have already been brought up here, but a cursory look at the last few pages of post didn't turn up this question, so...
I've noticed a trend for new members to use a kind of default name, that is something like "Member 4234432." I'm guessing that perhaps a field is filled in when they join with this default name and many choose not to change it?
Whatever the reason, I'd suggest implementing a way to discourage this practise. Make new members actually come up with some kind of original name.
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We have a quick sign-up page that doesn't require a name. For those members we aiuto-generate. I'll add the Name field to give them more of a prompt
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I see no reason for a numeric name nor a quick sign-up. Why can't people sign up
properly? why do they need a quicker way, because they have an "urgent plz plz" question?
I am not interested in reading or replying to messages posted by "member xxxxxxxx".
Please stop this, always require a proper name.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I see no reason for a numeric name nor a quick sign-up. Why can't people sign up
properly?
AFAIK, you need to sign up in order to download files from articles.
Donno about you, but if the first exposure to this site was a link from Google to an article where i wanted the code, and upon clicking it i was required to fill in a big form full of details... i would probably leave and not return unless i was completely unable to find what i needed elsewhere.
I'm guessing the quick sign-up is a compromise for these users.
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Hi Member 20101,
I don't recall exactly how/when/why I joined CP, so I tried your suggestion.
A downloader-in-a-hurry is supposed to provide three answers: name, password
and e-mail, that seems easy enough. And apparently the name is optional,
which is what I regret.
If CP wants to keep the name optional, I would suggest they turn the quick
account it into a temporary account, something that will insist on becoming
a real account or stops working after 2 weeks.
If we keep it the way it is, pretty soon the forums will be flooded by
numeric members...
Regards,
Member 648011 [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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- 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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Luc Pattyn wrote: Hi Member 20101,
Ha, nice.
Luc Pattyn wrote: If CP wants to keep the name optional, I would suggest they turn the quick
account it into a temporary account, something that will insist on becoming
a real account or stops working after 2 weeks.
I don't remember the reason for the sign-in requirement, so i don't know whether that'd work. But, it might be enough to just allow entering the name at that point.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Your signature's looking really messed up in FF2.x
The 'citizen...' text is ~1/3rd cur off by the sig seperator, and the green text is overlapping it.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Actually, that's intentional. 
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Why????
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Just for the heck of it. 
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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It breaks the oposite direction in email notification. I get the 'hidden' top slice of your sig there.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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I have to say that I like it.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: If we keep it the way it is, pretty soon the forums will be flooded by
numeric members...
I'm not a poster - I'm a free man.
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Chris - if you hit reply to this message, you'll get an Error on line 951. It seems that my name might be causing a bit of an issue - you are using parameterised queries aren't you?
Now, one choice would be to get all the people on the planet with apostrophe's in their name to change them - or the reply could be fixed. This isn't some St Paddy's day hangover is it?
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You're seeing a Javascript error. I'll see what's going on. Thanks
There we go. All fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:37 PM
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Chris Maunder wrote: You're seeing a Javascript error. I'll see what's going on. Thanks
Chris,
The Quote-Text is also broken when replying to Pete's posts - I am guessing it's that apostrophe at work again.
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Ah - this explains why I cannot Quote-Selected-Text when I reply to your posts. Stop breaking CP, Pete!
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Ah - this explains why I cannot Quote-Selected-Text when I reply to your posts. Stop breaking CP, Pete!
Damn me and my nonstandard naming convention.
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Three symptoms.
1. Yesterday I replied someone in this "Bugs and Suggestions" forum. The message was successfully posted. I saw it there! And then I refresh IE. It's gone, forever!
2. In "VC++ MFC" forum today, I typed a lengthy message as my reply to someone this afternoon. I clicked [Post Message] button. CP was quite slow during that time. Then I got the error message: "The message has been posted" or something the like. Which means it should have been posted. So I clicked the link of VC++ forum to abort that editing page. The fact is, my message was not posted.
3. Again in "VC++ MFC" forum today, sometimes after having typed some lengthy messages and clicked [Post Message] button, I got the error message as "There is problem inserting your message". But actually the post which I was going to reply was still there! So it's not the problem related with deleted posts.
Maxwell Chen
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Maxwell,
Your posts are still there, at least your reply to my post about Last Visit not working. I had to expand the Date Filter to Last Week from Last Day to see it.
Dave Augustine
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Maxwell,
I stand corrected. I had the Date Filter set to Last Day and couldn't see your post, changed it to Last Week and there it was. I posted my original reply at that time. I changed the Date Filter back to Last Day and went to the Lounge. Came back here with the Last Day setting still on and, Lo and Behold! your post is still there and it wasn't there before. Something strange is sure happening.
Dave Augustine
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Your symptom looks like THIS[^]. Sometimes it happens to me, too.
Maxwell Chen
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If you select a forum and have the Date Filter set to Last Day, and no changed messages are present, then you get the following message:
-- No messages --
Try changing the 'Messages Since' filter
This message should now read:
-- No messages --
Try changing the 'Date' filter
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Fixed in next version (due mid week)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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