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Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

honey the codewitch4-Oct-23 5:37

honey the codewitch

4-Oct-23 5:37

Ah, so indeed it was me being an idiot. Laugh | :laugh:

Thanks!

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

0x01AA4-Oct-23 6:38

0x01AA

4-Oct-23 6:38

Strange, I thought you don't need to go through moderation?

Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

honey the codewitch4-Oct-23 6:39

honey the codewitch

4-Oct-23 6:39

This wasn't about my article, but someone else's I was trying to approve. And not a bug, just me being a goof.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

0x01AA4-Oct-23 6:42

0x01AA

4-Oct-23 6:42

Uuuups

What happened to my rep privileges?

honey the codewitch3-Oct-23 2:20

honey the codewitch

3-Oct-23 2:20

Update: Also my article says approved by editor or trusted author when i navigate to it, but it's actually pending approval (shouldn't need to wait for that in my case) and it's not published.

Ever since this morning some of my comments are getting marked as spam and when I tried to update my article it told me it would have to go through the approval process. Given my rep points this shouldn't be happening, and has never happened to me before.

Can someone look into this? Thanks.

Site layout is normal for me now though. Progress!

Update: Site layout is borked again. Oops!

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

modified 3-Oct-23 8:46am.

Re: What happened to my rep privileges?

Matthew Dennis3-Oct-23 5:18

Matthew Dennis

3-Oct-23 5:18

We had some backend server issues this morning, which hopefully have been resolved.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Re: What happened to my rep privileges?

honey the codewitch3-Oct-23 5:24

honey the codewitch

3-Oct-23 5:24

Thank you!

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Home page layout broken?

Richard Deeming2-Oct-23 22:19

Richard Deeming

2-Oct-23 22:19

Is it just me, or has the home page layout gone for a Burton again?

Edit: And now it's back to normal.

Edit: And now back to messed up. Not sure if it's a dodgy ad; a dodgy article title; a dodgy question title; or something else.

NB: All ad-blocking is disabled for CodeProject, so I have no idea where the "resource is blocked by OpaqueResponseBlocking" messages are coming from.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

modified 3-Oct-23 7:50am.

Re: Home page layout broken?

honey the codewitch3-Oct-23 0:39

honey the codewitch

3-Oct-23 0:39

Still broken for me.

Update: Was fixed. Now broken again.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

modified 3-Oct-23 8:29am.

Re: Home page layout broken?

Nelek3-Oct-23 0:40

Nelek

3-Oct-23 0:40

(opens the door inviting you message to get in) Smile | :)

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Re: Home page layout broken?

GKP19923-Oct-23 1:45

GKP1992

3-Oct-23 1:45

It's not just you, it appears to really be broken.

Re: Home page layout broken?

Nelek3-Oct-23 1:47

Nelek

3-Oct-23 1:47

Yeah... for me too, but only "home", the rest of the site looks fine for me... (maybe cached pages?)

M.D.V.

Re: Home page layout broken?

Peter_in_27803-Oct-23 2:05

Peter_in_2780

3-Oct-23 2:05

Smells to me like a CSS/JS caching issue.
ctrl-F5 fixed it for me a couple of hours ago.

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Re: Home page layout broken?

Matthew Dennis3-Oct-23 5:17

Matthew Dennis

3-Oct-23 5:17

We had some backend server issues this morning, which hopefully have been resolved.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Article rating bar graph, fyi

0x01AA30-Sep-23 3:00

0x01AA

30-Sep-23 3:00

Only for your information: I think to remember the bar graph was showing the distribution of votes ...

... but is not doing it right now.

Most probably same issue in Q/A.

modified 5-Oct-23 13:31pm.

Re: Article rating bar graph, fyi

Jo_vb.net12-Oct-23 23:11

Jo_vb.net

12-Oct-23 23:11

still missing ! Cry | :((

Add a warning to postings of Quick Answer solutions regarding AI answers

Graeme_Grant27-Sep-23 14:18

Graeme_Grant

27-Sep-23 14:18

To help try and curb posting of ChatGPT and other AI quick answers/articles/tips/etc, can a warning something like this be added to the editor input:

for convenience, here is a link to their policy[^]

Graeme

"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee

Re: Add a warning to postings of Quick Answer solutions regarding AI answers

Chris Maunder5-Oct-23 3:12

Chris Maunder

5-Oct-23 3:12

I totally understand their position and motivation, but my honest feeling is it's almost impossible to police properly, and is akin to them saying "don't cut and paste another person's answer". AI is very hard to spot, and the use of AI to generate a solution is no more morally suspect than someone using Google to spot a random blogger's note on the topic and use that as an answer.

Stackoverflow's reasons are: the answer may be noisy and over-explanatory, it may not be factually correct, it won't have correct citations, and if someone wanted an answer generated elsewhere (eg AI) they would have already searched. The first 2 reasons are already covered under the general "don't post bad answers", I rarely see citations on SO, and no, users don't look elsewhere first because StackOverflow has awesome SEO so they come up first in many searches.

If someone knowledgeable in the space uses AI to generate an answer on a topic they understand, checks that answer, trims it down to what's needed, and posts, then I'm 100% OK with that. Saying otherwise would be akin to saying we should ban code snippets generated by CoPilot. For me, the only thing that matters is

The answer is correct
The answer is on topic and specific to the question
The answer isn't plagiarized. (This is such a debatable concept when it comes to AI), and isn't simply a cut and paste from any source
The answer isn't offensive, abusive, so poorly written it's not understandable

AI is here. We can't stick our heads in the sand about it, and we can't say "Just Say No". There's an onus on us to understand the tech, understand the implications, and understand and use it in a way that's positive while also facing the negative implications of AI. I don't feel a blanket ban does any of that.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Add a warning to postings of Quick Answer solutions regarding AI answers

Graeme_Grant6-Oct-23 4:41

Graeme_Grant

6-Oct-23 4:41

I hear what you are saying. I guess that I left it too open.

My thoughts are that AI is here and can be helpful. I have no issue with those who cite their sources, even when it is AI generated. I do this in Quick Answers to try and help others. Where I have an issue is with those who blatantly claim the work of others, or AI generated content, as their own.

Graeme

"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee

Re: Add a warning to postings of Quick Answer solutions regarding AI answers

Chris Maunder11-Oct-23 5:50

Chris Maunder

11-Oct-23 5:50

Graeme_Grant wrote:
Where I have an issue is with those who blatantly claim the work of others, or AI generated content, as their own

100% agree.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Nish Nishant27-Sep-23 10:07

Nish Nishant

27-Sep-23 10:07

Hey Chris / other CP staff,

I was wondering if there was a way to highlight a few lines from a source code block? A few WordPress plugins support it and it's quite handy when you want to call out modifications. The current alternative is to use line-numbers and then call that out (example : see lines 7 to 9).

Nish Nishant

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Nish Nishant29-Sep-23 3:06

Nish Nishant

29-Sep-23 3:06

Looks like there's a workaround for this, and it's one I had used 10+ years ago. Also, I did work on the original syntax coloring code 20-ish years ago, not sure if the current version has any remnants from those days though. The workaround is to use <span class='highlight'> inside the <pre> block.

Example

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Sup?");
    }
}

Nish Nishant

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Sean Ewington29-Sep-23 4:55

Sean Ewington

29-Sep-23 4:55

Hi Nish,

It's lovely to see you active on the site.

Every time I use <span class="hightlight"> in <pre> an article, it doesn't work. But if you let me know what part of your code you'd like highlighted in an article, I'd be happy to try again to see if this is still the case.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Nish Nishant29-Sep-23 4:59

Nish Nishant

29-Sep-23 4:59

Thanks Sean. Yeah, after a bit of a break, I've resumed posting some content here.

I did get it working. The trick is to be minimalistic in using it. Just highlight a few specific lines. If there are line-breaks in between, that seems to mess it up.

Nish Nishant

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Sean Ewington29-Sep-23 8:06

Sean Ewington

29-Sep-23 8:06

Thank you for the secret sauce! I will remember it for the future.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

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