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That is strictly not playing the game. The whole point of CodeProject is that everything is free. If you start introducing money into the mix then (unscrupulous) people will start demanding it.
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We all appreciate the thought, but I'm afraid we will not be implementing tipping.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: t I'm afraid we will not be implementing tipping.
You never tip on the tax, alcohol, or forum responses. Always been that way.
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How about a facility to exchange rep points for the cash equivalent? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah but I think your rep points are worth more than mine. I'd go bankrupt pretty quickly - If you helped me with one more thing, I know I'd wake up the next morning and find myself a n00b.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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How about cow tipping? 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. 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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I doubt this will happen, nor is it needed.
There are 2 kind of people answering questions on CP:
- the kind that does if for the satisfaction of knowing they helped another programmer. (I like to believe that his is the largest category)
- the kind that does it for the reputation points
(there is a small percentage that falls in both categories but lets disregard them  )
If the person who answered your question falls in the first category then all you have to do is add a comment saying 'thank you, this solved my problem' (as added bonus you can accept his answer)
If the person who answered falls in the second category then all you have to do is accept his answer as the solution (as added bonus you can add a comment saying 'thank you, this solve my problem')
So in short all you have to do is: accept as solution and add a comment, and you'll be save.
Tom
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Hi Tomice,
I am the one responsible for handling all tipping issues and transactions.
Please PM me, state how much and whom should be tipped, and I will see to it that he gets the money.
What ? Wasn't it worth a try ??
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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You forgot to add the joke icon 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks guys
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I think a bit of clarification may be needed here[^], before it escalates.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Since most spammers have just one message which is spam you can add an IsSpammer field to the members.
If a member has anything removed (not just reported) as spam, whether it's a question, answer, message or whatever the field is set.
And if the IsSpammer field is set AND the member does not have any contributions anymore (answer, message, article etc.) he/she can be kicked with just one report.
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I see no benefits with this approach, only the complication. I think existing system is better. Take this first spam message. This is either spam or not. If this is not spam, IsSpammer flag would be just pure lie, no matter if it is visible or not. If this is spam, this should be is enough to cancel the account.
As some criteria are fuzzy, reporting the to spam and abuse forum helps to accumulate subjective judgments. It does not completely avoid false positives and negatives, but improves the validity of action.
And first and foremost, I advise to use certain conservatism and cation in changing rules.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Lots of spammers actually post multiple message. However, let's err on the side of caution for the moment.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I had to re-set my Forum views to Threaded, turn off e-mail notifications.
And, really, come on ... we all know the Lounge is, by design, indigestible, although I couldn't pretend to have a life without it 
cheers, Bill
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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We're still trying to work though this issue. It seems to be a database load spike issue. We'll be on new hardware in 10 days so hopefully that will reduce the symptoms.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The "Message Moderation" currently has four posts, from a total of two users (yes, two posts from each). The link to the user's profile is correct for two of them (one for each of the two users), but the other other two look like this:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/membership/view.aspx?mid=%3C%=%20Item.OwnerId%20%%3E[^]
I sure hope I am not reporting myself as a spammer 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Its my profile  .but how
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You are not about to be banned. It is a loopback. 11,165,069 members will see themselves.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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So it's a wormhole. Now the question is: am I really seeing myself or it is myself seeing me? And does the myself I'm seeing represent me? Who's the evil one? I guess we'll never know! 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Something similar is happening in several fields.
I.e. If you use the link of the articles' list of a nuked user, that will point to your own list
AFAIK it happens in Links pointing to user items using friendly names (excluding the member URL itself)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Perhaps posting rules could be more helpful it they included some warning against spamming. Of course, it could not affect real spammers. But we recently discussed a question post which resembled spam disguised for question, resembled it very much: it was very little beyond the link to an online shop, nothing related to programming. But OP's comments to the answer suggested that this person really wanted to develop similar site.
Not the best way of asking questions, for sure, but the adverse effect of spamming is still there, even if there was no a bad intention.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I'd rather keep the rules simple to maximise the chance of them being read.
Telling someone not to spam is like warning people against shop-lifting. Those who do it already know it's wrong.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well, it's a good point. (Even though I didn't mean to say not to spam. It's funny that you mentioned shop-lifting, by the way: I can see shop-lifting warning in many stores, believe or not. )
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: by the way: I can see shop-lifting warning in many stores, believe or not.
I know. They always amuse me.
(and they do actually work, unfortunately. My argument is actually not particularly water-right )
cheers
Chris Maunder
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