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Every now and then, posts get downvoted for no apparent reason. This might annoy those who get the down votes (I know there are those among you who don't care about reputation, but bear with me), so why not even the playing field by randomly doling out down votes using an automated service? That way, when people get a random down vote for no apparent reason, they can just cool their jets and think "meh, was probably just a random reputation reduction". Though when they post something that maybe they shouldn't have, they will recognize the down vote as likely real.
You should consider this post a joke (unless you'll actually do it, in which case it's a suggestion). 
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Thanks Chris, that was fast!
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Chris is in a land down under, dabbling his toes in something called vegemite and playing with his tim-tam. Apparently.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Shhhhh... the whole point is that we live in ignorant bliss.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: You should consider this post a joke
they you should have posted it in the Soapbox forum.
This forum is for official complaints only.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
modified 22-May-12 5:40am.
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Just so we don't get off on the wrong foot, this is the type of joke that belongs in the Soapbox.
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I hope you know my post was a joke. Forgot to put the silly little joke icon on it.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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I do now. If you wanted me to know it was a joke, you should have put the suggestion icon on it.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: you should have put the suggestion icon on it.
It is extremely difficult to convey emotion, body language, context, and intent, online...as we all know.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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Hi there,
So I have recently been updating some of my articles, today my JavaScript Image Fader article. Now the publishing updates process works fairly well, it's just there is something that always confuses me. I often save draft version with "Work in progress check" and so when I view the new article it has the status "Composing" in yellow. This is fine. But then when I un-check the "Work in progress" box and click publish, there's nothing to tell me that it's actually in the approvals queue. The new article still says "Composing" in the corner, not "Pending" or something similar.
I think it would be nice if the Status of the article could be shown as "Pending" or "Waiting Approval" after clicking publish on an update, just to make it clear that the article is in the pipeline and is not still "Composing", as it says at the moment.
Thanks,
Ed
(P.s. If of course this is already supposed to happen then this becomes a bug report because it hasnt the past two times I've updated my articles  )
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The status is meant to change to "Pending". Elina will take a look first thing Monday. Either it's a bug or you're seeing a cached version (which is still a bug IMO)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks very much, I have refreshed my browser several times and even just deleted my cache and it still says composing so I don't think it is a caching issue. I'm using the latest version of Chrome - which usually does a proper refresh when you hit the refresh button anyway.
Happy to help if you need me to try anything else out
Ed
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I've found chrome to historically be the worst with holding on to cached versions, but I'm hoping this has been fixed. Regardless, it sounds like the problem is at our end.
Is there an article in particular I can dig into?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Ed,
Thanks for reporting and sorry for the trouble.
I logged in as you and changed the status of the article to pending.
To change the status of the article you click on the "pencil" icon close to the status.
You can go straight to available as well, if you want.
Sincerely,
Elina Blank
Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Wow that was a fast response! Thanks! Okay I understand how that works and will remember that in future. I presume I can only go straight to available because of my CP status is that correct? Or can anyone who's updating an article do that?
Thanks once again,
Ed
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Hi again,
If editor is updating your article, he/she can change article's status as well.
And you can change article's status.
I will make the required fix to be more obvious when un-checking the "work in progress",
but can not promise that it will be done today.
Thanks for your understanding
Sincerely,
Elina Blank
Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it!
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Okay thanks for the explanation, all makes sense 
Ed
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Ok, now once you un-check the "work in progress" status of the article will become "Available".
You still can change it to pending by clicking the "pencil" icon near available status if you want to.
Hope it is now more intuitive and less confusing.
Sincerely,
Elina Blank
Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Hello,
I am facing an issue with existing CSS code snippets in one of my articles. Every time, I update the article I get a bunch of <span> tags everywhere.
Therefore, I delete all CSS code and I paste it in order to work around this issue.
Kind regards,
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Which article?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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First: wow. What an incredible contribution. Awesome.
Second: I can't see the span tags you mention. I've used the "Get the article's HTML" button and also hit the edit button to see what the submission wizard is doing, but nothing is jumping out (or in my addled state I'm missing it and it's staring me in the face).
Do you see the span tags in the code PRE samples while editing, while previewing, or after you publish it?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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First: Thank you!
Second: When I update the article in Article Submission Wizard, the CSS code of the section Version 1.2 is always replaced by the code below both while previewing and after publishing:
.settings {
background<span class="code-none">: #f0f0f0<span class="code-none">;
border<span class="code-none">: 1px solid #ddd<span class="code-none">;
height<span class="code-none">: 100px<span class="code-none">;
left<span class="code-none">: 175px<span class="code-none">;
overflow<span class="code-none">: hidden<span class="code-none">;
padding<span class="code-none">: 0px 3px 3px 3px<span class="code-none">;
position<span class="code-none">: absolute<span class="code-none">;
top<span class="code-none">: 10px<span class="code-none">;
width<span class="code-none">: 135px<span class="code-none">;
<span class="code-none">}
.settings .options <span class="code-none">{
background<span class="code-none">: #FAFAFA<span class="code-none">;
border-top<span class="code-none">: 1px solid #ddd<span class="code-none">;
margin-top<span class="code-none">: 1px<span class="code-none">;
<span class="code-none">}
.settings .options input <span class="code-none">{ margin-right<span class="code-none">: 5px<span class="code-none">; <span class="code-none">}
</span></span></span></span></span></span></
It should be like this:
.settings {
background: #f0f0f0;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
height: 100px;
left: 175px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0px 3px 3px 3px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
width: 135px;
}
.settings .options {
background: #FAFAFA;
border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
margin-top: 1px;
}
.settings .options input { margin-right: 5px; }
I found a workaround. Each time I update the article, I suppress the CSS code snippets and create new clean ones.
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