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Cool, thanks! One more related issue. Links in some articles (to other articles) are broken for a similar reason. ie:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista/VGFileDialogs.asp[^]
Add an "x" and all is well with 'em. Asp references to old article locations is redirected fine. Asp references to articles in the new locations isn't.
-- Ian
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I've added a TODO item that one of our devs should be able to get to in the next week or so. It'll involve going through all 19,000 articles and checking links but hey - what else are you going to do with the weather so bad in Toronto? (He says, safely and smuggly back home in Australia for a few weeks  )
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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This is a suggestion made by someone else in the lounge, but I didn't see it show up here, so I thought I'd drop it here. We have the swear word filter. Do you have the ability to add words to the list?
The amount of text-speak here is growing and growing. If you can simply add 'plz,' and other common ones, when their posts gets completely ***'d out, they will get the point and learn how to use the entire qwerty keyboard. I see this as a pretty easy fix to a terrible problem.
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Justin Perez wrote: We have the swear word filter.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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Maybe I wasn't clear. When someone types a swear word, the word is replaced with asterisks. I was suggesting that was could add various text speak words to the list, and they will get filtered out. Just using a system already in place to combat the problem.
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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just make sure it doesn't turn out to be a clbuttic implementation. 
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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I've thought of doing this many, many times. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've thought of doing this many, many times.
Then what is holding you back? It's a simple, yet effective way to combat the folk here who think that they are charged by the keystroke. I think it may teach them a lesson, when they see three quarters of their post masked by askterisks, they will get their act together.
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Could this happen?
int* pTmp = &val;
int* plz = pTmp;
becomes ...
int* pTmp = &val;
int* *** = pTmp;
Maxwell Chen
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Maxwell Chen wrote: int* *** = pTmp;
Good catch!
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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Probably. But you can also not filter out things like that if they're in a code block. If the code block contains profanity (bypassing the filters) it can get reported for deletion. The text speak junk should filter on written content instead and ignore code.
Of course, if you ignore the code block then it'll get filtered out.
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Bert delaVega wrote: Probably. But you can also not filter out things like that if they're in a code block. If the code block contains profanity (bypassing the filters) it can get reported for deletion. The text speak junk should filter on written content instead and ignore code.
But about 50% people in VC++ forum do not use <code> or <pre> to present the code snippets.
Maxwell Chen
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Well, then that can be another way to get them to follow the forum rules. 
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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I did not think of that, that is a very excellent point. As someone said below, it could exclude items in code or pre blocks, and we could report posts abusing that as, well, abuse
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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This thread[^] is a prime example of why this text-speak crap should be battled 
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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That'd be nice to do something about the text speak 
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: the reign of terror
Is it really that hard to
a) Hit the abuse button
b) Ignore the post?
If you wish others to act in a mature fashion we must all do the same.
Also: I would have thought that of all members, Vasudevan, you would have caught on that Swarup was way, way before Kyle's time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If you wish others to act in a mature fashion we must all do the same.
True. But actually if you had observed the way the messages went astray on Monday morning, it was so disgusting and hence I thought I would alert CP Team. Slowly after an hour, the original message faded out due to a high number of votes on it.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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How are you sure it's Kyle?
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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The way the member went astray the other day, actually drove to doubt one.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Just got hit by this again a few minutes ago. Since the last time I posted something it's happened an average of once or twice a day. Are you really having to kick the servers that often?
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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So it turns out one of our database servers is having a real issue. One of our guys talked to Microsoft about it and we've been told to reduce the amount of memory we have in our database server. Evidently there is a known problem (that we didn't know about) that we're trying to get to the bottom of 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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whatever you did to the DB server isn't helping. I'm not certain, but it appears to be happening every time I navigate from one lounge page to a second. I haven't tested from a lounge page to a non lounge page, or between two pages on any of the other boards.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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