Bugs and Suggestions

Re: "Low vote colour" bug?

4-Sep-12 1:27

Hi,

So recently I've been noticing that posts in any forum that receive any vote value lower than 5 end up with the silver Low Vote colour. This must be a bug. It only used to be for values < 3, wasn't it? Now it's < 5. Interestingly, if a message has no votes, it just uses the normal, un-voted colour.

Ed

(P.s. I did search this forum to try and find something else highlighting this issue but didn't find anything.)

Edit: Example here at the moment: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4356216/Every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining.aspx[^]
Rating is 3.88 yet is has the silver low vote colour - this happens for 4 and 4.5 etc. Only absolute 5 seems to get the correct colour.

Or this one:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4355262/So-coooool.aspx[^]
Rating 4.75 yet displayed in Silver.

TPFKAPB4-Sep-12 1:31

TPFKAPB

4-Sep-12 1:31

You need to adjust the 'noise' setting on the orange bar at the top of the forum. I suggest you change this to Medium.

Re: "Low vote colour" bug?

Ed Nutting4-Sep-12 1:37

Re: "Low vote colour" bug?

4-Sep-12 1:37

Erm...right... Okay so does the Noise setting set what value classes as a low vote then?

Sorry for my confusion I just didn't think I had changed any setting like this recently...perhaps I did without realising.

Anyway, thanks,
Ed

Sandeep Mewara4-Sep-12 5:42

Sandeep Mewara

4-Sep-12 5:42

Ed Nutting wrote:
I just didn't think I had changed any setting like this recently...perhaps I did without realising

I doubt if you did that. My settings too got reset, like: "notify me if someone replies my message..." OR Show only publicly available posts

I guess some change triggered these for us. OK for now, so no issues. Smile | :)

Sandeep Mewara
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP

[My latest Article]: Server side Delimiters in ASP.NET[^]

Reporting/Approving Articles

Ed Nutting4-Sep-12 1:06

4-Sep-12 1:06

I wasn't sure where to put this so Site Bugs/Suggestions seemed like a likely place to get an answer. It's been "bugging" me for a while this one so here goes:

When reporting/approving an article, why when an article has had 5 reports and doesn't get published, does it not show all five member's names who reported it? It only seems to show the names of people who are Platinum in something (or some other selection system?). Can anyone explain what is actually happening and what the logic behind it is?

Thanks,
Ed

Kenneth Haugland4-Sep-12 5:33

Kenneth Haugland

4-Sep-12 5:33

No sure exactly, but Chris seems to say that an article is live once 5 platinum members have approved it:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Chris-Maunder?msg=4181355#xx4181355xx[^]

Ed Nutting4-Sep-12 5:39

4-Sep-12 5:39

No I know how the approvals work - something is published once 5 Editors approve it (not necessarily Platinum - look up the rankings).

What I was wondering was why, when an article is NOT approved, it puts a message at the top saying "This item was closed....by [Editors who reported names]", except that the editors name only usually include 2 or 3 members and only Platinum ones, yet to have been closed/rejected it must have had at least 5 reports. It seems very odd to me...

Thanks anyway,
Ed

Kenneth Haugland4-Sep-12 5:44

Kenneth Haugland

4-Sep-12 5:44

Quote:
not necessarily Platinum - look up the rankings

How can you find out who approved your article?

Ed Nutting4-Sep-12 5:47

4-Sep-12 5:47

As far as I'm aware you can't - it's an anonymous approval system (which is good).

As per the bug I've reported, you can only find out which Platinum members rejected your article (should that be the case).

Ed

Sean Ewington4-Sep-12 6:02

Sean Ewington

4-Sep-12 6:02

Sometimes that's me swooping in to help the flow of the Articles Needing Approval queue. Usually in those cases I am also emailing the author on steps to take to improve, different arena for posting, etc.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Chris Maunder4-Sep-12 15:44

Redirection from your notifications page

4-Sep-12 15:44

Some members (eg admins) have super secret squirrel ninja powers and can close articles with a single vote.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

dan!sh 4-Sep-12 0:17

dan!sh

4-Sep-12 0:17

If a user marks all the notifications as read, would it be a good idea to automatically redirect him back to previous page?

"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

Re: Redirection from your notifications page

Chris Maunder5-Sep-12 2:17

Images cannot be deleted??

5-Sep-12 2:17

I'd personally find that confusing. I'm on page 5, I hit "mark all as read" and I'm now on page 4, which could be a bunch of messages you've already looked at but don't wish to mark as read. I'd rather keep it predictable.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

i003-Sep-12 12:24

i00

3-Sep-12 12:24

I have several articles with screenshots of older versions that are no longer relevant, some of the images will not let me delete them???

At first I thought it may be opera, but safari and ie do the same thing, so think it is a problem with code project...

There is no error, it just doesn't remove them.

Has anyone else experienced this, or know what is going wrong??

Thanks
Kris

Slacker0073-Sep-12 23:53

Slacker007

3-Sep-12 23:53

Just a thought, I could be wrong. I think a copy of the images reside here on the servers. Also, could you not just edit the article without the images?

i004-Sep-12 1:04

i00

4-Sep-12 1:04

Yes... but there is an image limit of 10MB... so if you have many versions with different screenshots your space will run out!... also with heaps of images in the right pane it gets hard to manage them all...

Kris

Chris Maunder5-Sep-12 1:49

5-Sep-12 1:49

Which article?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

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i005-Sep-12 22:25

i00

5-Sep-12 22:25

Chris Maunder6-Sep-12 2:35

Log off from other places

6-Sep-12 2:35

I just deleted one of the duplicate "alert" images and it all went well.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Manas Bhardwaj3-Sep-12 0:09

Manas Bhardwaj

3-Sep-12 0:09

Why do I see this button on someone else's profile as well? It appears to the user that we can log him/her off from other places.

Manas Bhardwaj
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Re: Log off from other places

Peter_in_27803-Sep-12 1:04

Peter_in_2780

3-Sep-12 1:04

Looked eight threads down?

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Re: Log off from other places

Chris Maunder3-Sep-12 4:32