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Child posts are of the wrong thread

21-May-23 6:33

This is not the correct forum for product issues, please use https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/ask.aspx[^].

Richard Andrew x6420-May-23 0:28

Richard Andrew x64

20-May-23 0:28

In this post in C/C++/MFC, the child posts belong to a different thread from the parent post:

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Re: Child posts are of the wrong thread

Greg Utas20-May-23 1:52

Greg Utas

20-May-23 1:52

See the fairly long thread ~~directly below your~~ after OG's post. After a user's account was closed by the community, Sean deleted its posts, so the replies to it no longer have a parent.

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Re: Child posts are of the wrong thread

Richard MacCutchan20-May-23 3:25

20-May-23 3:25

The user still has an active account, so he most likely deleted the original post. Alternatively, if enough members flagged it as spam ...

Inappropriate ads?

OriginalGriff20-May-23 0:10

20-May-23 0:10

Chris, I don't know how your ads are selected, but this one might be inappropriate in some places:

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Greg Utas20-May-23 1:52

Greg Utas

20-May-23 1:52

[edited after replying to the wrong post]

The ads are probably personalized, so where in blazes have you been surfing? Laugh | :laugh:

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OriginalGriff20-May-23 2:00

20-May-23 2:00

Dunno - I normally get computer related ones. I don't think any of those costumes would fit me. IIRC there is normally a filter on the ads to make sure they are appropriate?

Richard Andrew x6420-May-23 3:03

Richard Andrew x64

20-May-23 3:03

I know it seems wrong, but these days, images like that are considered G-rated.

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OriginalGriff20-May-23 3:37

20-May-23 3:37

Most places it's not a problem - but some (particularly Islamic) places frown quite strongly on them - IIRC Malaysia for example really doesn't permit underwear or lingerie ads at all.

Chris Maunder20-May-23 5:53

Chris Maunder

20-May-23 5:53

We're on it. Thanks for reporting these

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0x01AA24-May-23 11:36

0x01AA

24-May-23 11:36

I work for the textile processing industry (for big well-known brands) and I really don't see anything inappropriate there, it's just daily business...
.. unless it is desired that wearing a veil is desired. D'Oh! | :doh:

Btw. Same advertisements are common also for men underwear.

Post forum message answer (undo)

Tom Deketelaere21-Jun-23 22:36

Tom Deketelaere

21-Jun-23 22:36

You get ads in that bar?

I haven't seen an ad in that bar for a long time now, I still get ads elsewhere so I figured that was normal...

Not complaining but maybe @chris-maunder wants to look into it ...

(edit 1) hmm why is the @ thingy not working Frown | :(

(edit 2) k now it did ...
And the ad is back now ... Seems to be only on reply / edit messages or something that I get the ad in that bar
On the forum itself I don't get it, nor on the home page
(edit 3) so quick further testing, I sometimes get the ad on the forums but mostly I don't get it there.
Doesnt' seem to be a server issue tho since I'm always on web02
right now I don't have the ad in the edit page (but did have it on edit 2)

the add box is there tho, just empty

the lounge never has it nor does the home page
other pages seems to be a bit hit or miss (mostly miss)

If you need more info / debugging let me know Smile | :)

Tom

modified 22-Jun-23 4:48am.

Mircea Neacsu15-May-23 15:47

Mircea Neacsu

15-May-23 15:47

I have a whole bunch of entries with this text in the list of reputation events. They all refer to non existing messages. Has my account been hacked? Any clue?

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question.

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David O'Neil15-May-23 17:14

David O'Neil

15-May-23 17:14

You are not the only one... Only four for me, but it is weird. And they are reducing points for those undone entries that I didn't make.

Richard Deeming15-May-23 21:26

Richard Deeming

15-May-23 21:26

Eight for me, all around midnight last night, when I was nowhere near a computer.

None of the links go to the thread in question, and I don't recall posting any replies to threads with those titles.

Definitely one to keep @chris-maunder tearing his hair out. Big Grin | :-D

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Richard MacCutchan15-May-23 21:35

15-May-23 21:35

Six and a bit pages of entries for me. Maybe the AI server had a meltdown.

0x01AA15-May-23 23:18

0x01AA

15-May-23 23:18

Only one for me.

It looks like the top item of the thread disapeared:

Greg Utas16-May-23 1:44

Greg Utas

16-May-23 1:44

I also had two of these. As @0x01AA said, the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer. Now the thread has lost its context, but I'm not sure how this could be "fixed", since deleting a post is sometimes legitimate. But removing the question also makes it look as if the replies belong to the previous thread. I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts.

Examples:
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Mircea Neacsu16-May-23 1:59

Mircea Neacsu

16-May-23 1:59

Random thoughts:

Greg Utas wrote:
I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts.

Maybe they get deleted automatically if the OP erases his/her profile.

Greg Utas wrote:
the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer.

Maybe deleting a post should just replace its content with some boilerplate message while leaving the answers in place. I can imagine cases where an answer is more valuable than the question itself. Also I don't see why removing the answer would affect the reputation counts: the answer was there (good or bad) so reputation stays the same.

Obviously this has to turn into actual code which is not as simple as blabbering here Big Grin | :-D

Mircea

Richard MacCutchan16-May-23 2:33

16-May-23 2:33

The questions (or some of them) were posted by Member 14968771[^], whose account was closed at the weekend. See I believe it really is time ...[^]. But I am quite certain that all the questions were still there after the closure, so I think CodeProject may have a new system that does this. Maybe @sean-ewington knows the answer.

Sean Ewington16-May-23 4:01

Sean Ewington

16-May-23 4:01

Sean Ewington does know the answer. I pushed a button that is rarely ever used to remove this user's messages. I probably shouldn't have done that.

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Richard MacCutchan16-May-23 4:03

16-May-23 4:03

No problem Sean, it just caused us a bit of confusion.

OriginalGriff18-May-23 22:44

18-May-23 22:44

Was it labelled in black on a black background, and when you press it a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it? Big Grin | :-D