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Once upon a time, about ten years ago to be precise, there were Chris, Christian, JSOP, Elaine, Colin, Shog, a bunch of Michaels, Nish, Paul and some other o'fellows, and everything was fine. Without voting. Without need to remove, to abuse, to gain reputation, to post against reputation points to gain more reputation points, to ban and be banned, etc... You could even talk crude in the Lounge from time to time ( after all, it's a Lounge).
And then, the dark side of the force took slowly over...
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I could imagine that 
10 years ago I was in school & didn't know about internet, programming, CP, Bob, etc.,
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thatraja wrote: 10 years ago I was in school & didn't know about internet, programming, CP, Bob, etc.,
Ouch !  Thanks for reminding me that I am getting older...
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 Hope you're < 40
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Once upon a time everyone at the CodeProject were here to share code and to discuss programming as a group of professionals who were more interested in helping one another rather than showing how important they are.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Perhaps get rid of rep points?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Members using the forums as a way to self-promote, belittle others, or carp endlessly about topics that no one else is interested in and have absolutely nothing to do with software development has been going on way before the rep system.
The overwhelming majority of members do the right thing by their fellow members and deserve the recognition of their contributions. I would not have thought that a solution that involves penalising the majority of the people because of the actions of an extremely small group fits in with your philosophy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I would not have thought that a solution that involves penalising the majority of the people because of the actions of an extremely small group fits in with your philosophy.
You are correct in your summise.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Well said. I started out in the forums as a way of thanking those who I had learned from in the articles. Oh, and to have my massive ego stroked. 
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Maybe the evolution of the site just followed the evolution of society in general. I *hate* people who keep stating "it was better before", but I reckon that I had to use this sentence a lot recently. I don't feel good about it.
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Everything was better before.
Mainly because the memory distorts the truth, things used to be new and exciting, and everyone has a natural (often unconscious) revulsion to aging.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I'm not geting older. I just can't understand why everyone is so damn young these days.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It wasn't necessarily better. It was just different.
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Every 6 months, without fail, since 2000, we have the "it was better before". The conversation is exactly the same.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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But those complaints were better in the old days.
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I blame the rep points on the falling standards of complaints.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hey, I am only carrying on the tradition.
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an article section for android developer.
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No, no, no... that's too obvious! 
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This may be a little confusing -
I used to have an account with my work email. I disabled that account and went with my personal email instead. I wanted to switch the daily/weekly newsletter emails to my work email and I got an error because that account already exists. When trying to change my old work email account password it said my account could not be found. How can I permanently disable my old work email account, or would I be able to access it again?
Thanks,
David
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Can you please email me (chris at codeproject) the old work email address to which you'd like to switch your current account to?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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| Reputation Type/Event | Description | Points | Max events
per day | Max events
total | Points Needed | Participant
General participation with the site
| | Posted spam or abusive message | The author of a message loses points due to their message being marked as spam or abusive by another member. | -20 | 25 | ∞ | 0 |
Some one marked this message[^] as spam/abusive but it's not. And lost 20. Actually he(Platinum debator) was down-voting my posts regularly(couple of months back) & I think he's back from vacation.
Here my suggestion is Mark the post as spam or abusive(reduce -20) when more than one user reported otherwise just reduce the debator points(which is regular action).
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thatraja wrote: Here my suggestion is Mark the post as spam or abusive(reduce -20) when more than one user reported otherwise just reduce the debator points(which is regular action).
Not a bad idea...
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I disagree. Inappropriate posts can be buried within article forums and only seen by the author. I know of several very specific cases where a member went on an abusive spree but only the individual authors were aware.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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