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Re: Posting a message isn't listed in latest events

30-Jul-17 13:16

In which forum was the message posted?

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Wendelius30-Jul-17 19:26

Wendelius

30-Jul-17 19:26

Bugs & suggestions, the message in the previous thread.

Re: Posting a message isn't listed in latest events

Daniel Pfeffer30-Jul-17 20:28

Daniel Pfeffer

30-Jul-17 20:28

I've just posted three messages (two in The Lounge, one in Insider News). None of them have appeared in my history, nor did I receive any CP points for them. OTOH, my answer to this week's survey (answered after I posted the message) does appear in the history.

I seem to remember similar problems yesterday, if that helps...

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Re: Posting a message isn't listed in latest events

Chris Maunder31-Jul-17 14:48

Re: Posting a message isn't listed in latest events

31-Jul-17 14:48

You mean the latest reputation events page? I'll dig in.

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Slacker0072-Aug-17 5:37

Slacker007

2-Aug-17 5:37

The VB haters thread in the Lounge is not registering any of my posts in the reputation/events page, either. Email notifications seem to be working.

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Recently I applied to the number of CodeProject's collaborative groups, *BUT*...

Arthur V. Ratz30-Jul-17 0:49

Re: Recently I applied to the number of CodeProject's collaborative groups, *BUT*...

30-Jul-17 0:49

A few weeks ago, I've applied to the multiple CodeProject's collaborative groups such as ASP.NET Community, Apriorit Inc., Codejock Software and even CodeProject Mentors. Smile | :)

But, since then, I still got no response if I'm about to be approved to be a member of those group listed or not ? Confused | :confused:

Particularly, I'd like to know just for my interest and inquiry will I ever actually be enrolled for these groups or not ? The list of groups I applied is available in my profile page under "My Groups" tab.

Can you please check about this and give me your response whereafter.

Thanks.

Wendelius30-Jul-17 1:26

Wendelius

30-Jul-17 1:26

Many of the groups are created and maintained by CodeProject users, not by the site admins. So the acceptance or response for a specific group depends on the person who is managing the group. Site personnel probably have no means to find any further information about the state of the application.

I'm guessing here but I would believe that many of the groups are "closed groups". For example only employees of a certain company or members of an organization can participate. Personally, if no answer is received after reasonable amount of time, I would take it as a rejection. After all, the group admin does not need to send an answer nor does not have to accept or reject the applicant.

Re: Recently I applied to the number of CodeProject's collaborative groups, *BUT*...

Arthur V. Ratz30-Jul-17 1:32

Re: Recently I applied to the number of CodeProject's collaborative groups, *BUT*...

30-Jul-17 1:32

Thanks for your reply and clarification. Smile | :)

Richard MacCutchan30-Jul-17 20:55

Richard MacCutchan

30-Jul-17 20:55

Most groups are invitation only. If the owner thinks you have the right skills then they may invite you to join.

Re: Recently I applied to the number of CodeProject's collaborative groups, *BUT*...

Arthur V. Ratz30-Jul-17 21:40

Minor thing - reporting members has changed slightly.

30-Jul-17 21:40

Thanks Richard for your reply. Smile | :)

Got it.

OriginalGriff29-Jul-17 1:46

OriginalGriff

29-Jul-17 1:46

The Red Flag dropdown on the User page used to be "Abusive / Troll" or "Spammer", but the second option has changed to "Spam" - which isn't strictly correct, because the medium is not the message! Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: Minor thing - reporting members has changed slightly.

Richard MacCutchan29-Jul-17 2:22

Richard MacCutchan

29-Jul-17 2:22

And the red flag on messages includes "Abusive/Troll", which is sort of ... can a message be a Troll?

Re: Minor thing - reporting members has changed slightly.

Chris Maunder29-Jul-17 6:11

Re: Minor thing - reporting members has changed slightly.

29-Jul-17 6:11

What if I renamed it to "trolling"?

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Richard MacCutchan29-Jul-17 6:48

Richard MacCutchan

29-Jul-17 6:48

You just earned another beer.

Re: Minor thing - reporting members has changed slightly.

Chris Maunder29-Jul-17 7:20

Re: Minor thing - reporting members has changed slightly.

29-Jul-17 7:20

I'm on it!

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Chris Maunder29-Jul-17 6:23

Do I apparently spend my time to contribute articles containing spam and other harmful content ?

29-Jul-17 6:23

Sigh.

This is why writing software that developers use is so hard.

I wanted to consolidate the report types because it cleaned up a few things neatly. I'm starting at the report names and thinking "spammer"..."spam"...they are close. They mean the same thing (internally). "Spam has been posted". So "Spam has been posted [by this member]" and "Spam has been posted [in this message]".

"So surely if I just made it "spam" it would be OK?" I says to myself. "Maybe I should make it 'Spam posted'? Would that then confuse them on the member profile page when they start looking for the spam that was posted on the profile page? Who was it posted by? Where'd it go? Would I totally freak everyone out? <takes large slurp of beer>".

So I left it at Spam.

Sigh | :sigh:

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Arthur V. Ratz28-Jul-17 19:01

Re: Do I apparently spend my time to contribute articles containing spam and other harmful content ?

28-Jul-17 19:01

Dear Colleagues,

Eventually, I've got one more question for you: Do I really contribute articles containing a harmful spam to the CodeProject's web site, don't I ?! Confused | :confused:

Recently, I've posted an article introducing the Windows Vista/7 sidebar gadget intended to load and render the articles-specific data from the CodeProject's main web page.

*ALSO*, some time ago, I've previously posted a message with my question if development and using of such web applications is not itself harmful and dangerous to the CodeProject's web site. Finally, as the respond, I've been suggested to complete this gadget's development and compose an article being presently contributed to the CodeProject.

An hour ago, I've already posted a message with a similar subject under the site bugs and suggestion forum, *BUT*, this post was marked as spam as well under no reason ?! Confused | :confused:

Thanks a lot for reading this message.

Chris Maunder29-Jul-17 6:24

This is either kind of strange to me... ?!?!?!

29-Jul-17 6:24

It's not you, it's us.

Fixed.

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Arthur V. Ratz29-Jul-17 6:27

29-Jul-17 6:27

Dear Colleagues,

I'm not a newbie, *BUT*, it's still kind of strange to me that recently my latest article A Simple Windows 7 Gadget To Preview CodeProject's Featured Articles[^] was totally downvoted by someone with even no comments have been posted. Confused | :confused:

It's interesting to me and I'm just wondering why specifically my latest article really deserves the vote of "1". ??? I apologize for my question, but this article contains the either source code or web application that has merely no bugs and is ready to be used. Also, the article's contents being published are clear enough to understand by the most of the readers. Confused | :confused:

*ALSO*, recently, I logged into my CodeProject's account, navigated to the page containing the list of my articles published and noticed that multiple untitled empty article's templates were occasionally added. As well, one of the templates created containing a couple of paragraph of an unfinished article being composed was automatically renamed as if it's an untitled article. I've tried to update the title of the article, but the updates were not reflected by the editor. At the same time, when it's opened for editing, the article's title editable field contains the proper article's title, which is not correctly displayed anywhere else.

I normally tend to suspect the case that probably someone illegitimately logged into my account using my credentials. Frown | :(

... Or, this is just a site bug ?!?!?!

I would kindly appreciate if you see what the problem actually is and help me out to fix it. Smile | :)

Thanks for spending a moment reading this message. Waiting for your reply.

OriginalGriff28-Jul-17 20:31

OriginalGriff

28-Jul-17 20:31

Down votes happen. And you don't have to leave a comment to explain why so that the recipient can't start a vendetta against the voter.

A quick look shows two votes: a 1 and a 5. The 5 is a high ranking vote - the overall result of 1 and 5 gave 4.2, so it's a high rank 5 versus a low rank 1 - and the 1 is a newbie. So it may be he's confused, pressed the wrong button, or it wasn't what he wanted so he downvoted it. Or perhaps he just doesn't like you. All of these things happen.
Yes, it hurts to put a load of work into something and some "low life" just down votes it but that's life - some people are natural born trolls. It's happened to me, it's happened to most people.

The ranking system is set up to discard spurious votes: so if the article collects enough 4 & 5 votes, the spurious 1 will be discarded (or vice versa, if enough people decide an article stinks, spurious 5 votes can get discarded as well). So I'd just ignore it: it'll sort itself out in the near future, I'm sure.

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Arthur V. Ratz28-Jul-17 20:41

28-Jul-17 20:41

Thanks a lot for your reply and detailed explanation. My very kind appreciations. Smile | :)

OriginalGriff28-Jul-17 20:56

OriginalGriff

28-Jul-17 20:56

You're welcome!

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Chris Maunder29-Jul-17 6:29

29-Jul-17 6:29

Arthur V. Ratz wrote:
noticed that multiple untitled empty article's templates were occasionally added

I've tweaked the permissions a little so you can see articles that have been deleted. This means you'll see a bit of debris left over from past attempts at starting and abandoning articles.

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