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I'm sure Chris will add it, once all members promise to keep the position constantly updated... to within 5m or so! 
Regards,
Ray
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That's right - we'll make sure everyone wears satellite tracking devices 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hey Chris,
I've been talking to a few people here in college who often visit CP and some of them think it'd be a good idea to have a new members forum [perhaps with a link visible on the homepage] so that they can ask sites about the site and about the forums etc. [Many of them said they were godsmacked at the sheer size of the site and that they were afraid to ask simple questions in the lounge]
Regulars could pop in and answer questions about navagation and where to ask questions and so on... obviously it could be open to the usual abuse... asking programming questions on so on, but at least this way we'll know what to expect and the new member can be pointed in the right direction and hopefully there'll be less non-related topics in the lounge.
Just a thought.
Brian
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
Many of them said they were godsmacked at the sheer size of the site and that they were afraid to ask simple questions in the lounge
 Hallelujah! What drugs are you feeding them to get them to be afraid of posting non-Lounge questions in the Lounge? I mean, we need to distribute this amazing substance! 
Good idea though btw. (why aren't you online? Sharon left and now all I have to talk to is, well, myself.. which is no bad thing, just I hear the same voice over and over.)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Colin Davies wrote:
...can you imagine a John Simmons stalker !
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Paul Watson wrote:
What drugs are you feeding them to get them to be afraid of posting non-Lounge questions in the Lounge?
Horse tranquilizers!!! [lol. ask Sharon about Horse Tranquilizers.. rotflmao ]
Paul Watson wrote:
Good idea though btw
Why thank you!
Paul Watson wrote:
why aren't you online? Sharon left and now all I have to talk to is, well, myself.. which is no bad thing, just I hear the same voice over and over.
I didn't go to work last night... first day off in 5 and I had some college work to get done.. a lot actually. I probably won't be on again until sunday. Only got your txt last night... don't know if you got my reply.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I'd definitely be recommending the lounge for newcomers.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I'd definitely be recommending the lounge for newcomers.
Oh I am. Just some feel a little apprehensive about asking questions in there.
Regards,
Brian Dela
Níl aon tintéan mar do thintéan féin.
Is fear rith maith ná droch sheasamh.
Irish Sayings
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I agree a lot of new folk want to do the ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) or ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) emoticons but are embarrassed to ask.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Don't forget ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) and ![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif)
You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks
-Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past.
-Chris Maunder
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Come on this is not a dating site. What would you use the heart for?
I mean, CP is still CodeProject and not CoolPartners, CrazyPairs or CouplePower.
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Come on this is not a dating site.
What? Seriously? You mean all this talk of programming isn't just a ruse to keep away jokers? 
Shog9
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Sitting in muddy water
isn't such a bad life,
if it ends after the first time... - Yoko Kanno, The Real Folk Blues
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Nope, it isnt. Simple to verfiy - just check the number of females. Any dating site has at least dozen good looking singles that are always available. Not so on CP. Thats proof enough
I don't think this is a serious possesion, and the evil most likely comes from your hand. Colin J Davies, The Lounge
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Come on this is not a dating site. What would you use the heart for?
To describe our for of course!
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages
A moment of silence please. A programmer's best friend has passed beyond that great exception in the sky.... - Mark Conger on "The coffee machine has died"
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CodeProject says:
1-4 articles posted = Bronze. 5-14 articles = Silver. 15-24 articles = Gold. 25+ articles = Platinum. Each 500 messages posted adds one level, and if a user has posted a message then each year of membership adds 1 level. Bonus levels not valid for Gold members. Bronze is awarded at the beginning of the first 500 messages posted instead of the end.
What is a "Bonus level"?
Now I am wondering, I have posted 5-14 articles, am member since 2 years+, and have posted more than 500 messages.
Why I am Gold? I know this has for sure been explained a hundred times, but I missed it 
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(5 - 14 articles = Silver) + (500 messages) = Gold
Simple as that.
Michael
Life’s not a song.
Life isn’t bliss.
Life is just this.
It’s living. -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once more, with feeling
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And where are my 2 years? (which should add 1 level each year) 
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Platinum is restricted to only those who have posted at least 25 articles, or have provided an invaluable service to
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Ahhhhh, now (even) I get it
But what about those "Bonus levels" mentioned? I dont think that is some kind of shoot-em-up level where you can just kill all that comes up??
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Colin Davies wrote:
have provided an invaluable service
To summarise: Altruism towards CP is looked upon very highly be Mr Maunder. 
Cheers,
Simon
"From now on, if rogue states want to buy weapons of mass destruction, they're going to have to go on eBay," Mr. Bezos said.
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That's where the "Up to Platinum" part comes in. You don't get bumped up from Gold without writing insane amounts of articles.
You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks
-Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past.
-Chris Maunder
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David Stone wrote:
You don't get bumped up from Gold without writing insane amounts of articles.
And hopefully decent ones!
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages
A moment of silence please. A programmer's best friend has passed beyond that great exception in the sky.... - Mark Conger on "The coffee machine has died"
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I LOVE the CodeProject!
I worship Chris!
The problem with the message bords, is that it just takes about 4 hours (on vc++) before the question is gone - to the next page.
Even if you didn't get an answer. The solution is to write the same question again, and again crowding the messageboard.
Can't the threads be marked with 'completion' or 'satisfacrory response'
for later filtering?
Perhaps setting the standard amount of trheads to 50 instead of 25 would help?
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Hugo Hallman wrote:
Can't the threads be marked with 'completion' or 'satisfacrory response'
for later filtering?
That would be a good idea...
Perhaps at the top of each forum there could be something similar to "Question Time" in the lounge where any questions from the last day that hadn't been marked as "completed" could be displayed in a round robin fashion. Maybe they wouldn't even have to be marked as completed... just basically show the thread titles in the "Previous Questions" box.
Hugo Hallman wrote:
Perhaps setting the standard amount of trheads to 50 instead of 25 would help?
Setting the standard to 50 would slow down the site considerable for people on dialup or other slow connections.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Hugo Hallman wrote:
Can't the threads be marked with 'completion' or 'satisfacrory response'
Who would mark the threads? What happens if someone marks a thread 'completed' but it's not actually completed?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Instead of puttihng as completed or to-b-completed.... why not they grouped under the question... like the directories displayed in thge windows???... So that the user sees only the questions in the page, and scrolls IN to see the answers??
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