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I wasn't really seeing this as something for everyone, just those that have achieved a certain (high) level - something to strive for - a reward for heavy and active participation.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I understood that; sig pimpability could be some kind of a reward.
Chris turned it into message images in general, which I wouldn't object to; only then I suggested to do a two-step approach.
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The beauty of the Quick Answers system is that abuse could easily be nullified by members by editing out the offending content. Since we also keep all versions of questions and answers, we then also have the tools to go back and spot offenders.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If I'm going to offer images, I may as well do it properly.
I just stumbled on this tip/trick[^] which includes external images. I would like to know your opinion and plans about it.
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Perfectly acceptable
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I didn't even know you could do that...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I really need a Mr Burns style finger-temple emoticon.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I didn't know either; I saw the T&T with images yesterday, and wondered whether the author took the trouble to create an unfinished article so he could upload images, then use them elsewhere, or what. So I looked at the page source and discovered T&T accepts arbitrary IMG tags, something I suspect the article wizard does not, as linking to external images creates dependencies that will break over time, devaluing CP content.
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I was thinking the user's avatar from their profile could be used in the sig, and pictures in message bodies should be limited to 320x320 and a reasonable file size. To establish the size, I would crop a reasonably colorful photograph, crop it to 32x320, set jpg compression to 15-290% and see how big the file is, and finally round that value up to something - ummm - round. I would alsoo restrict it to jpg images, just to make it easy on yourselves.
At that point, the site itself could police the file size and dimensions, leaving the users/admins to judge just the content.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't make the site able to crop/resize, it should merely accept/reject the image based on the specified limits.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I'm not sure if this has been reported before (I searched and checked the 'Current Bugs' message, didn't find anything), but I just wanted to inform you that the 'Accept Alternate' button in Tips/Tricks seems to be broken.
Whenever I click it, it just displays the following error message below the button:
An error occurred while attempting to accept this answer. Please try again later.
It has been like this for a while, I just didn't report it yet so I could see if it was just a temporary error, but it seems like it isn't.
![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) Kristian Sixhoej
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking
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Yep I just verified it. It's working fine on our development machines so it seems it was fixed at some point. It should be good for the next upload.
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CP Needs a sports lounge for all those World Cup / World This / World That posts
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Or at the very least a persisted preference option that says "hide all sports posts".
How to implement? Scan for words like "world cup", rugby, cricket and nuke 'em.
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The threads could add tag support. That way people starting threads on cricket, football, or tennis could just use the right tag, and people who don't want tos ee those threads can use the ignore-thread-by-tag feature (which they'd also have to write then) 
They already have the framework to do this (for the QA forum), so the regular forums could probably borrow from that.
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Who's a clever bunny then!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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As long as the titles are not actually deceptive, it's not hard to skip over them.
I am also anti sports, but it's a perfectly valid topic for the lounge. It's not as if there's not plenty of other lounge activity I skip over.
CCC's
Drunken ramblings.
xxxOTD...
I woz headbanging at heavy metal.
But I don't object to their presence.
I do think putting scores in titles is in poor taste. The only people who'll care will be made unhappy. But that practice stopped.
What next... No Olympics?
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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500 characters is rather restrictive for a sig if one wants to properly format and provide some links. Any chance we get some more? Could we trade 300 chars for some rep points? Right now I have to cut some words...
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Wanna' rent some of my unused sig? Maybe even for some rep points.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Thanks for your kind offer. I'll wait for some more before I make a decision. Don't call us, we'll call you.
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problem kinda solved for now. Thanks.
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No Luc, you need to be more creative than that.
1. Using classes you can make your sig be essentially the same with 60 less characters
2. Using relative links you can make your sig be exactly the same with 50 less characters, though the links won't work in forum email notifications (however, a simple fix my end will fix this).
3. Doing both gives you an extra 110 characters.
4. I can see a fairly obvious further 100 characters that can go since I already have that particular link bookmarked.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks.
1 is a mystery to me. Are you referring to pre-defined classes? is there a way to have a macro-like functionality, so all hyperlinks get a more compact code?
2 I did. Is OK.
3 = 1+2
4: others may click too.
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You can use class="callout align-center" instead of the inline style you're using. As to compact links, there are plenty of tinyurl provider sites out there that may help.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, got over 100 chars free now.
Are callout and align-center your classes? (they are not present in my books!)
are they documented somewhere?
guaranteed to survive site changes?
OK for relevant browsers?
what happens to existing messages when you change those classes?
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Luc Pattyn wrote:
Are callout and align-center your classes? (they are not present in my books!)
They are ours.
are they documented somewhere?
No. That would make things too easy.
guaranteed to survive site changes?
Highly likely to, but definitely not guaranteed. Very few things in life are guaranteed. Sometimes you just have to let go and take a risk.
OK for relevant browsers?
Yes
what happens to existing messages when you change those classes?
The end of life as we know it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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