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You've locked this for editing, but I will fix it in 19 minutes. But if you're still in there, this is how you do it: Code Project Article FAQ[^]
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Whoop. Nevermind. Fixed 
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thanks. It appears now.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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I've doubled checked the Settings in my Account.
thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Can you please forward me one?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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can we write a select query[^]
I just reported this question and found that the some of the left most content of the page is not visible (or I'd say cut).
Though it's a minor bug to draw attention towards it.
I've seen this before (look weird) and you can check the page in the given link.
Hope you guys solve it 
Cheers
KR
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Sometimes (a lot of times in fact) questions closed, and I do agree that there is a reason for that...However may come a fourth person (after 3 agreed to close it), who has some valuable comment/solution to share...It maybe a good option to let him open it up (but only if there is a post!)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Agree.
I've faced this many times 
Cheers
KR
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Total rep count of both "closers:" under 30k; only one of them has a 'gold' rep as "Authority:" [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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It happens sometime that third one doesn't get displayed. Reports required to close the question is still 3. I may be wrong because i've stopped reporting anything in QA since 9th Oct.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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I think Rohan is right - if the other people don't use the same closure reason, they won't appear in this list.
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Hi,
I like the highlighting of new messages, and of fora containing new messages. However, what has been irking me for too long is that I have no control over the definition of "new". I tend to stay logged in (but not with a browser open) and when the system decides it's time to log me in again "today" (or whatever triggers it), I lose the flags of what's new.
Suggestion: As a user option (profile setting?), allow the "new means since ...." timestamp to be sticky until the user updates it to "now". So I could come in, look around the stuff that has appeared while I was asleep, then click "OK I've seen that lot". Then next time I come in, I see what I consider new.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Excellent suggestion. Added to TODO
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I agree.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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One small point: what sort of UI would make sense here? A button on your profile that locks/unlocks the "last visit" flag, or a button at the bottom of the page "mark all read"? A combo?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: a button at the bottom of the page "mark all read"
Would that apply to the entire site, the current forum, the current page of the current forum, or something else?
Whichever you choose, I think it's likely to cause confusion.
How about an option to temporarily override the "last visit" date/time? And store it in a session cookie, so that restarting the browser restores the default behaviour - no need for an "unlock" button.
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: Whichever you choose, I think it's likely to cause confusion.
Me too
Richard Deeming wrote: How about an option to temporarily override the "last visit" date/time?
I'm guessing this means "when I open a new page, I want a button that would set the "last visit" value back to the value it was before I visited". This is possible.
But...
Richard Deeming wrote: And store it in a session cookie
This is the kicker. The original message discussed an issue where the browser was left open for long periods. After 20 mins your session expires so if a browser was left open then the session expires and nothing's stored. We could store the value in local storage or a JavaScript var and carry that around, but that seems...clunky.
What would be *really* good is a per-message flag that says whether or not the message has been read - which is hugely resource intensive and not worth the pain and cost.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm guessing this means "when I open a new page, I want a button that would set the "last visit" value back to the value it was before I visited".
I was thinking more of a pop-up to enter a custom date and time for the "last visit" value. Possibly triggered from the "indicates new messages since" area.
But obviously I appreciate these things are much easier to say than they are to implement! 
Chris Maunder wrote: After 20 mins your session expires
No, that the server's session. I mean a "session cookie" (aka "in-memory", "transient" or "temporary" cookie) - one with no expiration date set. They're stored until the browser closes, and aren't connected to the server's session.
Chris Maunder wrote: What would be *really* good is a per-message flag that says whether or not the message has been read - which is hugely resource intensive and not worth the pain and cost.
Agreed. 
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: a pop-up to enter a custom date and time for the "last visit" value. Possibly triggered from the "indicates new messages since" area
That might work. And yeah - a session cookie (as opposed to server session storage) would do it.
I just wonder how many would actually use this feature...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I just wonder how many would actually use this feature...
If only there was some way of posting a poll on the homepage to ask!
"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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Now why didn't I think of that. What an awesome feature that'd be.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was envisaging a small button near where it says "new messages since..." Label? something like "update" or "set to now". And a profile page checkbox to opt in to the whole thing. That seemed to me to be minimal impact, given that you obviously keep a per-member timestamp anyway. I just got annoyed by the auto-update mechanism (whatever it is) marking a whole bunch of stuff "not new" when I hadn't browsed the fora.
Looking at the other discussion on this thread, I never envisaged you'd consider per-member per-message. O(n^2) and all that.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I would find it useful if the member-name of the poster were shown after the information about the last revision/update time.
imho, this would be useful for detecting a series of posts by the same OP, etc.
thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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There was actually a deliberate decision not to do this because we want questions answered (or voted or reported or even closed) based on the question, not the author.
To view all questions by a single author use http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=questions&mid=">http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=questions&mid=[member id]. However, I'm guessing you're looking at spotting, within the QA list itself, a series of questions from the same member?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: However, I'm guessing you're looking at spotting, within the QA list itself, a series of questions from the same member?
Yes.
I note that on the C# language forum, you do always see the author's name (of course, that forum is in a different format than QA forums). The difference in the way QA forums are structured compared to language forums, like C#, is the source of my hypothesis that the original intent here was to have the language forums serve/perform a different purpose than the QA forums, within the context of the whole site.
That's my excuse for sometimes decrying the slip-sliding over time of the C# forum into a second QA forum, rather than a place where language issues get discussed in depth. However, there are threads in the C# forum where discussion does go marvelous deep into language issues, and, certainly, many threads there have a 'technical depth' you see more rarely in QA (in part, thanks to the zeal of our current crop of QA's reputation-uber-alles hotshots ?).
On the C# language forum, I 'enjoy' the fact that it is easy for me to spot and ignore the on-going chain of messages from the CP member who's been on the site over 13 years, and never done anything but ask questions, and who, to my knowledge, has never thanked anyone who replied to his messages, or voted-up anyone who replied, and whose questions suggest that he has CP doing the work of the business he claims to own ... for him.
But, please don't think my enumeration of quibbles here is anything more than the finicky nit-picking of someone who, admitted to heaven, after a while started noticing a few pimples on 'angels'
thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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