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Apparently CSS, who has consistently violated the TOS and who has defied Chris to do anything about it, now complains that he is getting less than a fair shake. I have presumed that Chris asked me to moderate that forum because he felt that the worst excesses of our two resident trolls needed to be curbed.
CSS's OP assumes that I am the only one with the power to delete messages in what is left of the back Room. This is incorrect. To my certain knowldge, Christian Gaus can do it and, of course, Chris can do it. Christian suggested awhile back that CSS was deleting his own messages in an attempt to discredit him and me.
I freely admit that I have deleted some of CSS's messages simply because they contained little other than a vulgarity-filled personal attack on one cp-ite or another. While the Back Room was designed as a ghetto for those who could not accept the simple rules of the Lounge, Christian and I were not appointed by Chris do do nothing. That my censorship has not been heavy-handed can be seen by anyone who holds his nose long enough to read enough of CSS's extant posts and realise just how vile he can be.
Chris, I serve at your pleasure of course. An argument can be made that with the advent of Soapbox 1.0 there is no longer any need for moderation of the Back Room and it should simply be allowed to fester.
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You have been selectively deleting message in a pursuit to harass me and Ilion. If we are not allowed to harass people, than neither are you. You are not above the rules you are supposed to enforce. You and DD have been using The Back Room as a dumping ground to harass two individuals. You and DD's and anyone else who participates in such filth should have their messages deleted as if they were mine or Ilions. The fact that you would delete the above message that does not violate any terms or conditions clearly shows that you are not fit to be a moderator.
Obloga Obama Blog[ ^]
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age to produce the sort of character and sort of beliefs that authorities consider desirable.
Any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.
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Oakman wrote: I have presumed that Chris asked me to moderate that forum because he felt that the worst excesses of our two resident trolls needed to be curbed
No. I asked the users of that board to nominate moderators so they could look after their own affairs. That forum degraded into purely juvenile behaviour and it was no longer of any interest to me to maintain.
You guys do what you wish with that forum. I set no rules on moderation and offered no guidelines. If you no longer wish to be part of that forum then you can go to you 'My Settings' page, go to groups, and delete yourself from the Back room moderators group.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Could it be possible to hold a new election say once a month?
Obloga Obama Blog[ ^]
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age to produce the sort of character and sort of beliefs that authorities consider desirable.
Any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.
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Chris Maunder wrote: delete yourself from the Back room moderators group.
Done. I have no more interest in the forum than you do.
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I'm trying to change my profile pic, and I find it really difficult to produce an image that's less than 15KB in size.
The image restrictions haven't changed since at least 2002, when I joined - surely CP can afford something like 250x250, 100KB per user image?
Cheers,
Vikram. Recent activities:
TV series: Friends, season 9
Books: Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.
Carpe Diem.
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This restriction is in place to help readers conserve bandwidth. If you're having trouble getting tan image down to 15Kb then can you please send it to me? I'm happy to experiment and see what kinds of images you're looking to post and what a reasonable image size (given sensible compression) would be.
Failing that we can do compression on the server for you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Mailed you an image 
Chris Maunder wrote: This restriction is in place to help readers conserve bandwidth.
Given the image is displayed only on the profile and article pages (and not the forums), and that a typical CP page is fairly large, I think a 50KB image wouldn't be much worse than a 15 KB image.
FWIW, Server-side compression sounds like a good idea too. 
Cheers,
Vikram. Recent activities:
TV series: Friends, season 9
Books: Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.
Carpe Diem.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: FWIW, Server-side compression sounds like a good idea too.
Only if it's necessary. FWIW, i'm curious as to what sort of image you couldn't manage to cram into 15KB... Animated GIF? White noise?
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Wow! Emailing an image for reducing its size? 
You could have done it with something like paint .NET. Alternatively, you could use one of those online image editors like Pixlr[^] (While saving the image, just set the quality of the image to see changes in the file size).
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Wow! Emailing an image for reducing its size?
Erm, it was Chris who asked I email it.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: You could have done it with something like paint .NET.
I realise I haven't said it on the forums, but I told Chris Paint.NET is what I was trying to use.
I've used Irfan View since then, and while it does the job in terms of size, I like Chris' ACD See image better. While your and Shog's comments have given me teeny weeny doubts on my sanity (or at least skills), I still think 15 KB is too small. Maybe I am spoilt by Facebook and Last.fm. 
Cheers,
Vikram. Recent activities:
TV series: Friends, season 9
Books: Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.
Carpe Diem.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: I realise I haven't said it on the forums, but I told Chris Paint.NET is what I was trying to use.
You were not able to do it with Paint .NET? It is a straight forward thing... While saving the image (resize if required first, and then save as), reset the quality of the image (with the slider it would show) and the resultant file size would be shown aside simultaneously...
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Oddly enough, that's exactly what I tried....
Cheers,
Vikram. Recent activities:
TV series: Friends, season 9
Books: Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.
Carpe Diem.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: I still think 15 KB is too small. Maybe I am spoilt by Facebook and Last.fm
By doing essentially nothing other than resizing to make it fit our specs I got your image to 6Kb. That was without even bothering to fiddle with compression.
15Kb is more than enough for anyone.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I am also facing the same issue for large profile pics. I tried compressing the image using Photoshop CS6 and Microsoft office picture manager. But still it does not upload to CP. I somehow managed to compress it to less than 15kb and below 150x150 pixels but still it does not show my profile pic. I am really feeling bad that i cant show my pic to my profile. Please allow someway to automatically itself to lower the resolution or reduce the size without sacrificing its quality.
Its my humble request to you.
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Dont we need one in the CP??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one!
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Chrome on XP
In the C# section, I tried to 5 DaveyM69 by I accidentally hit 'bad answer'. All fine and dandy, nothing a reload and another click can't fix, so when I reloaded I noticed that his rating was uneffected by my vote. Ok... so I hit 'Good Answer' again and it said 'message marked as answered' etc, and went along my way to the lounge to do absolutely anything but work.
I went back to the C# section to see if any new threads popped up, and alas my vote went awol again!?. It took a *third* vote to make it stick, I reloaded C# and it is still there... for now...
Bug or could it be chrome perhaps?
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EliottA wrote: Bug or could it be chrome perhaps?
Nope.
It could be caching, though.
We have a web farm, and each farm caches its own copy of the messages which are updated periodically. When you vote we try and make it so that you see updated information, but don't worry about what others will see (that data will catch up soon enough). Sounds like the system was bumping you too quickly and showing you older cached info.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)
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There seems to be something wrong with the article count on the members profile page.
When you go to the 'Who's Who @ codeproject' its says that you (Chris) have 119 articles.
Clicking on the link for the articles then states '104 articles found'
When going to your profile Chris-Maunder[^] it says 103 articles.
Same thing for David Cunningham
on the who's who: 7
when going to profile : 0
when clicking on the articles submitted: 1
Didn't test any further than than 
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Again?? I thought we'd fixed that one. Obviously we need didn't use a long enough wooden stake.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: wooden stake
Or the wrong wood?
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I got this when applying for the soapbox 1.0. First comment "perfomed" is misspelled. Second, the message didn't give any indication that there was a man in the loop approval step needed to complete the action.
"The JoinGroup action you perfomed was successful."
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
-- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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We've added a bug entry and will make this clearer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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