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He broke the rules of the Lounge, but really, his punishment was excessive, and his account should be reinstated. Let's hope Chris agrees.
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We're working to make it safer. Or at least noisier for us if it happens.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The problem as I see it is that it's to easy to just vote someone away.
One abusive post doesn't make a troll. Neither does an abusive thread. That could be just a bad day, or being drunk of course.
Several abusive threads on the other hand might.
So one possible way to handle the whole business is to make the "Vote to remove" button in the message, into a dropdown called "Report", having the choices of "Remove message", "Report abuse", <edit>Vote to move thread to backroom, "</edit>"Report troll" and "Report spam". Thereby making it possible to track bad behaviour in more than one dimension.
Well, "Remove message" would still be on just that message.
But the other choices would be checked against quality of reputation. Which could be measured by (upvotes - downvotes)/messagecount.
Or something similar. I'm pretty sure there are much more refined ways to make such a calculation.
If it's the first message it would of course render an immediate nuke of this user.
But if it is someone that's been around for a while it would take more messages and more threads to remove a user.
Just a thought.
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Steps to repro:- Create a new post in the Lounge.
- Paste a URL - the URL is correctly inserted with the title highlighted.
- Edit the URL's title, then click at the end of the pasted content to continue typing.
- Click a smiley.
Expected result: Smiley is inserted at current cursor location.
Actual result: Smiley is inserted at start of text (before pasted URL).
All smileys inserted in this post are positioned after the last inserted one. Looks like the insertSmileyHere index starts off as zero and gets +=d with the length of the last inserted smiley.
/ravi
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 I have noticed this too.
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Fixed. Will release in the next day or so.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is it possible to add the saved queries as dropdown list to the search edit?
Cheers, Jani Giannoudis
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I'm not sure when it was changed, but now the member popups do not display member's join date, articles, or messages. I thought the purpose of including this information was to give some context, e.g., when a member asks a question, others can see if the question came from a newby, and so may give some further guidance.
Without this info, the member popup is now useless as a source of any context, and we have to go to member's profile page, like we did before.
Please change it back.
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Chris,
When you read Hans message, can you also clarify what platforms this is working on, or is there still issues?
I have both the settings and the top of the forum check boxes ticked, and I never see the popups working, this is on Chrome.
Cheers,
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Dave,
It wasn't working for me, either, until I clicked the Update button on the orange bar.
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I tried that as well......
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In that case, there's no help for it, you'll have to upgrade your bios. 
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I even disabled all the chrome extensions incase one of them were interfering.
upgrade the bios won't work, maybe a new laptop will 
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Dave (to wife): Honey, I evidently need a new laptop because the one I have doesn't allow me to use some new functionality on a web site that's important to my job."
Wife: What functionality is that, dear?
Dave: It allows me to place reference material into a visual context, and supplies amplifying information that would otherwise go un-referenced.
Wife: English, please.
Dave: I want to look at other user's profiles without having to actually click on their user ID.
Wife: For instance?
Dave: (selects JSOP user ID, displaying the monkey-turkey avatar in all it's glory) Like that.
Wife: You're kidding, right?
Dave: No, I would never have known this guy was such a god-like individual if I hadn't clicked on the link. If I had a new laptop, his diety-ness would have been obvious with a mere hover of the mouse cursor.
Wife: Well, okay then.
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Dave, you can thank me with appropriate 5-voting of all of my messages for a year.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I would if that was how things work, but i'll give you a 5 on that message for effort  ;
Wife: You bought a new laptop?
Me: Yep.
Wife: When am I getting a new one?
Me: (selective hearing engaged)
Thats how it went when I appeared on the Sofa the other week with a new Samsung 10.1 tablet......
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Don't be surprised if next week you suddenly notice you're sitting on a new sofa.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: his diety-ness would have been obvious with a mere hover of the mouse cursor
I assume this means you're losing weight.
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Try changing your forum View to Normal. I'll dig in and see why it's not working when you choose "Expand Posts and Replies"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yeh! They work fine on normal.........looks like you've found a bug Mr M. 
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The member popups never displayed the member's join date, messages or articles. It's always been just the simple "What do I look like, what do I do and where do I live" popup.
Here's the entity that's passed back, and has been passed back since v1:
public class MemberSummary
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public string Company { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
public string WebsiteURL { get; set; }
public string ProfileURL { get; set; }
public string ImageURL { get; set; }
public int RepPoints { get; set; }
}
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Wow, I guess I need to check my RAM. 
Now that we've established that, can you please add that infos to the popup? ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I do believe the time has come, and filtering through all the static on the Lounge to find the "signal" is tiresome.
My preference: strong moderation to eliminate OT posts, personal fluffing, etc.
best, Bill
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." Miss Piggy"
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One of the problems though is the underlying technologies.
For example, if the metro style apps are HTML5 + Javascript, where do the users post the questions, you end up with stuff all over the place.
Its bad enough at the moment with the VB/C#, ASP.net, Javascript, Windows Forms, .Net forums, and regularly see question which were probably better suited in one of the others, but technically are also in the correct place.
It might be easy to have a HTML5/CSS3/Javascript type combined, as that would also capture web app programming through the browser.
Its like a big bowl of technology broth all mixed up!
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Hi Dave, thanks for taking your time to respond !
My suggestion doesn't really focus on the Q/A forums side of things, but was intended to suggest a forum for discussion of the broader implications of all the new technology in Win8, which is going to be a major shift. Issues of migration, issues of interaction between older technologies and the new, issues in deployment, etc.
I think forums for Win8 questions can be added later, per flavor (Metro and WRT, SilverLight, WinC++) of technology, using CP's existing structure.
Right now there's some excellent discussion in the Lounge, and I'm following comments by several CP members closely, like Daniel Grunwald, and, of course, Pete O'Hanlon. But, there's such a tsunami of twittophrenic crap in the Lounge I'd like to see a special forum for these issues which I believe directly affect many CP members work and businesses, and, potentially, income.
best, Bill
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." Miss Piggy"
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For now I would prefer to just let things settle down. BUILD has just wrapped up so of course the topic de jour will be Win8 and its cohorts, and I think it's great there's so much discussion.
The fuss will die down quickly, and then once we have sufficient volume of working-life questions and discussions we can open a new forum.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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