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The option exists already: "Off-topic".
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Fair enough - I read that as the article going off the topic it was purported to be, but it fits in that context too.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I am curious.
I remember seeing something about some sort of logic that is used to automatically remove 1 and 2 votes if they appear to be statistically negligible in comparison to 4 and 5 votes.
The reason I'm asking is that recently, my Being a Programmer article received a 1 vote (total 1-2 votes is 15, total 4-5 votes is 215).
What is the threshold used to establish that a 1 or 2 vote probably isn't warranted in an otherwise highly regarded article? Is it based on a percentage of votes? The reputation level of the voter? Both? Something else?
Further, if such a vote is negated, would the -20 that showed up in the reputation points list (for that particular vote) also be followed by a +20 in the list, in order to regain the points lost by the unwarranted vote?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I assume you've read this[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Harrumph. It seems to me that a vote that is filtered out should also positively/negatively affect the rep points as well. It doesn't seem to me to be technologically difficult or even unreasonable. When someone unbookmarks an article, aren't the rep points for that bookmark also deducted?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Reputation you gain or lose from the community is different from the system that attempts to objectively rate an article's value. Yeah, we could tie them together and make points appear/disappear each time a new vote is made (meaning thresholds will change and the set of "accepted" votes changes) but how would this - at a practical level - make any difference?
Your rep reflects the ebb and flow of how you and your work is regarded, regardless of whether those opinions are accurate. Not that "accurate" in this case is even possible. That's like saying someone's opinions on your opinions could be accurate.
I know what your response to that last statement already is. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was answering a Q&A question, and was typing a for loop, and the editor kept capitalizing the indexer var (I was typing a lowercase "i", and it kept turning it into and "I". In fact, the same thing happened while I was typing this message.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Link or example please?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It appears as if it only happens at work (using IE 11 I think). With Firefox, it doesn't seem to do it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It does happen in IE.
Typed in IE (I typed a lower-case "i"):
for (I =
Typed in Firefox (again, a lowercase "i"):
for (i =
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Is the IE spellchecker on or off?
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Is there any way to implement so that User can select two or more topics to show the corresponding articles.
Right now we can select only One "header" and it sometimes forces me to click on the other header to see what has come.
Its not a major issue but helps a lot if it can be implemented.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Oh, we're going to make it way better than that
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I posted an answer for a database discussion. Within next hour it was marked as spam and received the following via email notification,
"Your message 'Re: Export Access db to Sql Server db everyday' has been marked as potentially being spam and is currently in the moderation queue pending approval.".
Then(after few hours) I found the following two entries in my reputation history,
- Programming Forum Answer Downvoted (negative points)
- Posted spam or abusive message
The answer I posted was genuine and had no bad things. Anyone explain me this please? This is the first time I having this issue. Thanks.
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Message Removed
modified 13-Oct-16 9:32am.
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To reproduce:
0) type a text string, ex "troll pit"
1) select the text string
2) paste a URL over it, ex http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1536756/The-Soapbox.aspx
expected result: troll pit[^]
actual result: The Soapbox Discussion Boards[^]
While posting the page title is a nice enhancement when pasting a URL in an empty spot on the editor, when pasting a URL over a bit of existing text I've already made explicit what I want the link to say.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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As far as I can see popularity calculation does not take bookmarks into account but is based on votes only.
Should the bookmark also affect the popularity? I would think that adding a bookmark would be a sign of interest towards the article.
modified 11-Oct-16 6:38am.
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Mika Wendelius wrote: I would think that adding a bookmark would be a sign of interest towards the article.
I would say it shows more interest than just giving a 5
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Lots of things can be a signal of an article's popularity. Bookmarks, # comments, # people who have scrolled to the bottom, # downloads, # shares. In the interests of keeping things simple and consistent we've chosen to use rating as a surrogate for all of these since they are (generally) well correlated.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It would be interesting to see those extra metrics in the left-hand side bar (# shares, #people that scrolled to bottom).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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We are seeing quite a number of new QAs which contain some ordinary text, but no code. The only code to be seen is a single line containing:
#include
so it looks like the < after include is being taken as the start of a tag, but everything following is thrown away.
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Yeah. This one is a bad one and it's related to our decision to switch to using a third party HTML sanitiser. We've relied on our own one for ages but it simply wasn't up to the task. The new one, however, has no patience, no humour, and not hesitation it hunting down and annihilating anything that looks like HTML that it doesn't agree with.
If someone pastes #include <stdio> without escaping the <'s then everything from thereon in will assume it's an HTML tag. It's not a white-listed HTML tag, though, so it gets nuked.
Either the poster needs to encode brackets, or wrap them in PRE blocks (where they get special treatment) or we don't bother and just switch to Markdown and don't allow any HTML at all. (which we briefly tried and everyone hated it.
...or we do what software devs always do and fork the code and hack it to our will. Instead of removing bad tags we'll work out a way to simply HTML encode them and convert blocked HTML tags into harmless Text nodes.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is it possible to temporary switch back to previous solution while fixing this one ?
Newbies usually don't know how to use <pre> until their question is edited by someone else.
An Encode would be easier to handle.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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). Phew.
Closed your unmatched parenthesis.[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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