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I've just been through his comments and deleted them. Hopefully the votes will vanish too.
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Thanks.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Check out this question.
When I tried to add an answer, I was told "We have tried to add your answer 3 times without success. Our servers are just a little overworked. Sorry."
I then attempted to add it again, and it succeeded. When I went back to the question, I noticed my answer had been posted twice. This indicates that 1) the first error message was incorrect and 2) there is nothing stopping me from posting the same exact answer more than once to a given question. FYI, I deleted the duplicate answer.
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Added to the bug list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Could someone "official" follow this[^] up?
Thanks,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Taken care of. Thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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On the top left of the screen it says (as I am typing) 7,251,134 members and growing. But I conducted a small "test" which baffled me and hence this post.
For about a minute, once in about 5 seconds, I refreshed the home page and I found the following numbers.
* 7,252,168
* 7,252,778
* 7,252,168
* 7,252,778
* 7,251,134
* 7,251,890
* 7,252,778
* 7,251,134
* 7,252,168
* 7,251,890
* 7,252,168
What does that mean? Members online can understandably grow and shrink but members count itself fluctuates ! 
...byte till it megahertz...
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It is a Cache problem.
The number online changes too.
Each time you refresh you get a new server, and they are not all in synch.
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I would doubt the first three digits more than the last four.
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The mirrored servers are not synced in real time, so you'll always see a discrepancy depending on what server you hit.
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True, however 7M accounts in 10 years, that's an average of 1.2 per minute. So maybe it would be better to sync the number every minute, or to broadcast new accounts right away. I don't see a DOS attack anytime soon here.
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I know this would probably be quite complex to do, but...
Would it be possible to remove or disable the "Add an Answer" button from questions if you are the OP?
Frequently, the OP posts a question, someone posts an answer, and the OP posts another answer along the lines of "No, you have misread, I need this instead...". Since it is another answer the original answerer is not notified and so does not improve his response.
Removing the "Add an Answer" button would force them to use the "Add Comment" widget instead.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Yep we do have a couple tasks to help alleviate this common problem. But we don't want to hide the Add Answer button altogether. There are some legitimate cases of its use by the OP.
Specifically we were planning to take the OP to the edit page of the question with a special notice at the top. From there they can choose to:
1. Do as we suggest and improve the question
2. Go back to the question view page and add a comment
3. Acknowledge that a new answer is actually want is intended and go ahead with it
Another feature we're planning is the ability to demote answers to comments.
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Thiru Thirunavukarasu wrote: Another feature we're planning is the ability to demote answers to comments
This would be a good one. 
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The only legit use I can think of is to post a solution the OP has found - which rarely happens with the programming forums, so I'm not holding my breath! Still lets see how the revised version works!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Actually, that's been my experience two or three times. In one instance, it took a couple months of working with MS to get an answer. I figured that that answer needed to be well noted, so I posted the answer to my own question.
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Right. I think this is actually a common occurrence. We do often find the solution to our programming problems. The question is whether the OP chooses to update his/her question.
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Thiru Thirunavukarasu wrote: Another feature we're planning is the ability to demote answers to comments.
While on the face-value, this is great feature, but I see troubles ahead too. Who decided it is a comment not an answer? What if I provide what I think is legitimate answer, but another person thinks it is more of a comment and then s/he demotes it. May be it should work similar to "vote to remove message" feature, but with much weaker weight. Say, instead of single person's interpretation, the algorithm takes into account the person's RP and applies some weight, when the threshold reaches certain value, poof, time to demote man!
Just my 2¢
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I suspect it will be manual, and by user level, in the same way that you need silver or gold to edit, delete, etc.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Correct you will need to be at least a silver.
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I just clicked on "Ask a Question" in the QA section, and was presented with the edit window, Subject, Tags and Content. Unfortunately the section that starts: "A few simple rules when posting your question." was not visible so I saw no guidance on the rules for posting. Maybe if the rules appeared first, and the questioner had at least to scroll past them before getting to the edit box, then at least some of them may read the guidelines in advance of their post.
It's time for a new signature.
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Regardless of where you put the instructions, they will be ignored.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: the instructions, they will be ignored
true, and even more so when they would be incomplete, confusing or hard to find.
Some people will ignore everything, nevertheless good instructions are bound to be more effective than bad ones or none at all (I don't even see them on my laptop without scrolling).
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Regardless of where you put the instructions, they will be ignored.
My point was that since they don't appear on the first screen we can hardly criticise people for not following them. If the instructions are the first thing they see then all those that ignore them could be referred to your goodself for chastisement. 
It's time for a new signature.
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