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In March, when I enabled my ad-blocker, CP gave me a message that my ads were disabled.
One part of the message said that the ads would be on-topic, so that they've to do with programming/software developing/...
After reading that, I disabled my ad-blocker for CP, but today I got an ad about a travel to London.
If that message was telling me that the ads would be on-topic, why do I get an off-topic ad like that?
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We're experimenting with a new ad provider to see what their ads are like. Unfortunately the options for blocking ads are pretty basic so we have two choices: block a (small) subset of advertisers and let the rest go through (while watching and ensuring ads are sensible) or go the painful way and approve each ad to be shown individually.
At this point I'm going to push for Box B. All I ask is you be patient as we work with the new supplier.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, thanks for the explanation!
I'll be patient.
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Same here just now. Culprit is home24.de and it's an advertisement about furniture. Not exactly what I had expected to find on CP. 
Curious as I am I'd like to know what the problem was with your previous provider, as I didn't notice any glitches like that before. It could well be that this Kind of discussion is not suitable for a public forum though, I guess.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 3-Aug-13 16:41pm.
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: Curious as I am I'd like to know what the problem was with your previous provider
We sell in-house via our DeveloperMedia business and that's totally under our control (and we're anal about who we allow on) but we're constantly looking at new clients and advertising suppliers. We tried these guys a few months ago, turned them off, left them, and are now trying them again.
It's a test. We'll adjust, try again, rinse, repeat.
Manfred R. Bihy wrote: It could well be that this is not suitable for a public forum though, I guess
Nah - talking about the ads we show is important. The ads pay the bills, but more importantly we want the ads to be on things that are relevant to you. Software and services are the obvious ones, but I buy gadgets, so I personally want to see ads for computers, tablets, phones, gadgets for my bike, gadgets for the office. I read, so ads for books on topics I enjoy, and that extends beyond computing to general science. I also travel a bit, so anything geeky that can make my trips more enjoyable is definitely OK by me.
And then what about the stereotypical developer diet? Do we show pizza and beer ads? Jolt cola? What about ergonomic furniture, gym memberships? Games and gaming rigs? I draw the line at dating ads though. Statistically developers are more likely to be married, and stay married, so I refuse to pander to inaccurate stereotypes.
What would you like to see?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well I agree with most of the stuff you mentioned except maybe for the dietary ones. I did notice though that the ad I previously mentioned was localized (I'm in Germany) that is actually a good thing as these ads may have a better chance of getting my attention, especially if it would be something like a gym membership.
I'm very much for gadgets and electronic tinkering stuff (tinkerforge dot com) etc.
Something else by the way, do you thinkg it could be possible for members to subscribe to certain advertisement categories? In my opinion that seems viable. I'm not sure it would be well received by the ad companies though. They probably get their revenue by how much adverts they push out. If they'd get most of their revenue by direct sales through advertisments it could be a possibility. The positive effect being that I only get to see what I'm really interested in (category wise that is).
IRC one member even proposed previously to opt out off ads completely by having something like a payed membership. I'm not so much for that option, as once in a while an ad can turn your attention to something you'd otherwise have missed. I still see the option for subscription to certain categories. That would of course mean that the ad content would have to be properly decorated with appropriate meta data.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: They probably get their revenue by how much adverts they push out.
Advertisers are companies trying to sell their product. The more they can show ads to those interested, and the less they show ads to those who aren't interested, the better. I think there's a tendency to forget that a software company is just a bunch of guys like you and I who believe in what they do and just want to talk to those whose problem they are trying to solve.
Manfred R. Bihy wrote: once in a while an ad can turn your attention to something you'd otherwise have missed
Exactly. And this is also a reason that choosing an ad based on what someone says they like isn't always accurate.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Internet Explorer crashes:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: iexplore.exe
Application Version: 10.0.9200.16635
Application Timestamp: 51b7a8e3
Fault Module Name: MSHTML.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.9200.16635
Fault Module Timestamp: 51b7ad9b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000e0a334
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1053
Additional Information 1: 1ed5
Additional Information 2: 1ed50b14860339d2e2a7eb3500b88794
Additional Information 3: e11b
Additional Information 4: e11b3e7422018a896cad7f3935e04518
Can't debug in Visual studio. I get:
Unhandled exception at 0x000007feeb9fa334 in iexplore.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000000.
Works fine in Chrome.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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I posted a previous message saying that early versions of IE10 were easy to crash, but it looks like you have the latest. I'm not seeing the issue on any installs of IE10 or 11 on my machines.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It seems to be just the database forum if that's any help. But I haven't tested all forums just about half of them.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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FYI, Now it works again.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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In the Q&A section, Top Experts (both 24 hour and monthly) starts at #0, I figured its everybody's goal to be #1, and here all along people been telling me I'm a zero and taking it as an insult 
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What number does an array index start from.
Maybe the joke is getting old...
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ucancode.net advert[^]
Not sure if that's one from developermedia or something through google, but looks like somebody took a screen shot of a word document and didn't bother to remove the formatting/spell check hints...
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Where did you see this ad? On an article on CodeProject?
I'll let the AdOps team know. Thanks for the heads-up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It shows up on the side in the Q&A section, above the Top Experts panels.
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Thanks Ron!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can you please clarify what you mean?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Why this much emoticons?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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ha ha ha sry should i remove??
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The timestamps on reputation points seem to be 1 hour earlier than when they actually occurred (at least here in PDT). For example, when I post a comment, it shows up as posted 1 hour earlier. Not a big deal of course. But in case you feel like taking a look.... This comment will appear to be posted at 11:18 AM, but really it's 12:18PM here.
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Are you in daylight saving hours? I think theres a box you can tick in the settings when you select your time zone.
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Yes, it is dst here, and I do have the box checked in my settings. So that appears not to be working.
On a separate but related note, why would you need a "Are you currently in Daylight Savings Time?" checkbox? Wouldn't that require the user to update his settings twice a year? Other sites don't require this that I know of, and I'd think that local time offset from UTC (including any local daylight savings time offsets) would be readily available.
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Not sure if this is really a good idea or not, but figured I post it here for discussion at least. I sometimes feel bad when a newbie asks a question in quick answers and gets voted down because they haven't tried google yet or they didn't include their code. These downvotes do not always include a comment that explains why. I imagine that the newbie might get discouraged and decide not to try posting again because of down votes. Perhaps newbies could get temporary immunity? Like the first five questions they ask cannot be downvoted. Or for their first month of being a code project member the questions cannot be downvoted?...just a thought.
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