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Luc Pattyn wrote: CP should be transparent and show its resolve.
Hmm... sounds like a valid point. 
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Explicitly saying why the account was deleted might be too much info, but it should say "Account deleted" so that it doesn't look like a bug.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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In this particular case the member was removed. There's nothing to actually load, hence the message. We do have the ability to ban a member, in which case a different message would be displayed.
However, sometimes we simply nuke a member entirely instead of leaving the account clogging up the system.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This creature[^] has been consistently abusive on the lounge, starting flamewars, posting garbage and all sorts of other nonsense. Not a single message that he posts make sense at any level.
Basically he's been following the footsteps of Kyle, "Teh" developer, and other clueless asshats. Can we have him kicked out, please?
[Additionally, this idiot has been univoting good articles for no sane reasons. You could as well consider removing his votes from such articles]
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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He has been grinding for a couple of weeks now, I am guilty of feeding him and have stopped.
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"Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..."
Patrick Kielty 2006
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I second that
Whiiiiiii my 1500th post (I think  )
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Troll removed
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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one down, loads to go.
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"Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..."
Patrick Kielty 2006
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Thank you Sean.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Some people have their own pages (like a certain FF addon). However, those don't appear to be bookmarkable under the groups page. It would be nice if the page authors had the ability to add users to their page so that their page appears in our groups.
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None of this member's[^] posts actually have any real content beyond the <AOL>"me too"</AOL> level, but his sig has multiple links to various sites. I spotted him after he tried pulling the same stunt in the lounge.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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He's a persistent one, too... Look at his post history, particularly the comments on articles... He changes the advertising links in his sig based on the article topic... Web hosting sites, Nigerian mapping sites, some kind of solar energy thing...
Not going to click any of his links, but you have to admit, the guy is working hard to spam us or SEO the sites. He's been doing it since April of this year, it seems, and polluting a lot of articles on the site.
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I'm glad it's not just me.
I notified CP of the problem by Email about 2.5 hours ago and just after I hit Send I suddenly thought, I've been having problems with my connection/ISP all day, what if it was that that was stopping the redirect?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Cheers. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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No problems with your ISP, this was my bad. The correct link was in fact http://www.codeproject.com/redir.aspx?adid=11511. The HTML version of the survey email contained both a link to the survey and a link to CP. Just to be cheeky I decided to track the CP link on the HTML email. On the TEXT version of the email, I did not track the CP link as it would have looked weird. But like an idjut, I pasted the CP tracker instead of the survey tracker. I blame the flu...
Mike
Code Project - AdOps
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Hi EliottA,
Can you please, specify what link is broken, or forward me (elina at codeproject.com)
the email with the broken link.
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Which email was this in?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Note I removed some details for small anti-spam purposes.
Message Details
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reply-to Offers webmaster@code*******.com
to EliottA ***email removed***
date Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:24 PM
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mailed-by maillist.code*******.com
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This offer has been sent by The Code Project on behalf of our sponsors.
Allowing us to send you an occasional email such as this is a great
way of supporting your favorite resource site. If you experience
difficulty viewing this message, you can view it online here:
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We’re conducting research to help us better understand our members. Would you mind taking this brief survey to help? It's very short and should take only a minute. We don't store any personal information at all - we're just looking for the overall trend in the responses from you and the other members who are taking this survey.
Is this for real? Yes, this is a survey from The Code Project, but we're hosting it on SurveyMonkey so we can use some of their advanced features.
Click here to take the survey. http:
Thank you in advance for your time - we really appreciate it.
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The ID of the adid is 11512 where it should be 11511, I have since sent this information to Elina, who has been the only contact about this email.
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Hi,
I am using some code from an excellent article by Jean-Paul Mikkers on parsing the IE favorites folder [^].
In the download files for that article there is no copyright statement or CPOL statement (no stand-alone, no content embedded in any of the project files).
It is not my intention to use this code in a commercial project now, although I understand that option is fine under CPOL.
I've read the CPOL license carefully and I'm wondering if there is any obligation to include in your source something like the following when the code you are "borrowing" does not include any specific CPOL statements :
I would do this in any case, simply for the sake of internal documentation (changes I might make to the internals of any methods or field names in the "borrowed" code I would document before the declarations of their classes or methods).
Anyway, I'm just curious what "fair play" practice is in cases like these, and I do understand there is another set of issues that would arise were I to want to distribute the actual source (the question of the fact that unless I obfuscated my code, someone could probably resurrect the source from the compiled bits ... well, who can deal with that one ?).
best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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Sorry for the delay in replying - just back from holidays.
There is no explicit requirement that you include in your source that type of wording, but there is a requirement that you make your end users aware of the license the code is under when using the CPOL. Having text such as you suggested is an excellent way of doing this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Greetings.
While I think the option to "vote to remove message" works quite well, it sometimes doesn't encourage people to think what they post.
There are a few ones, who I frequently see (especially in the Lounge) who have about 80% of their posts removed. Whats more, they gain reputation quite rapidly just by posting crap 
I propose two extensions to voting system:
1. If a user have many of his messages removed in short time (10 messages in 3 days?), he gets temporary ban for a few days(a week?). By a ban I mean inability to post anything or vote.
2. Messages automatically removed shouldn't count for reputation.
I'm aware that such system could result in "revenge ban wars", but it may also encourage some people to just care what they post...
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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deflinek wrote: 1. If a user have many of his messages removed in short time (10 messages in 3 days?), he gets temporary ban for a few days(a week?). By a ban I mean inability to post anything or vote.
In theory this sounds nice but nothing prevents that 'banned' user from creating a new account and just continue his crap postings.
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No, but probably the new account will be banned in the same manner. I'm not talking about permanent bans - however it may be also considered for frequently banned accounts, or temporary accounts, that will not be used for some time after unlock - just to not garbage users database.
The aim is to send message to trolls: "we don't like that kind of posts, please consider changing your style". And to not allow people gain reputation just by posting crap which is removed anyway.
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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