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Quoting a message with ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) in the text results in it displaying [mastadon]. At a minimum it should quote as [elephant] if there's a reason why you can't force a translation back to directly.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's considered an Easter egg emoticon and so it's text trigger isn't ever shown.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: it's its text trigger isn't ever shown
FTFY. 
Or, in other words, it's "its", not "it's".
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- Homer
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Chris Maunder
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I think you meant
Or possibly :mastodon:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Since I want codeproject to continue I completely understand that ads need to be there.
And I might even be interested in something.
But I just noticed now that Adblock was successfully blocking everything. So just now I added the site to the exclusion list.
I don't think that the site ever attempted to tell me that that was the case.
I think it is reasonable that it does so.
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On a related note, surely there must be an advertising solution that doesn't require white-listing scripts from DoubleClick.net?
For CodeProject, I've turned off my adblockers and enabled scripts from everything except that nefarious domain. I have yet to see a single ad on this site.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: I've turned off my adblockers and enabled scripts from everything except that nefarious domain
So even with no adblocker you don't see ads? Do you have developermedia.com whitelisted? Whatabout the Google doubleclick sites? This is all very curious.
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Chris Maunder
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How about fall back image only ads? So, if visitors have an ad blocker, you'd just show static images as ads (with a-href-links). Hard to block images when they are hosted on your site.
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Interesting idea.
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Chris Maunder
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As I said, I've disabled uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger for CodeProject, and white-listed everything on the site except doubleclick.net, and I still don't see any ads.
I'm not keen on enabling doubleclick because of their poor reputation, and history of serving up malvertising.
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- Homer
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It's important to distinguish between the technology (doubleclick) and the marketplace (AdExchange). Google owns both and have a huge vested interest (obviously) in keeping things clean. However, their version of "clean" is like their version of "Do No Evil". It's in the eye of the beholder.
We use doubleclick to serve our ads - even the ones we hand-pick. We also source some ads from AdExchange when necessary but we keep an eye on them. Blocking AdExchange is fine, but blocking doubleclick means you throw out the baby with the bathwater. Or, err, the ads with the other ads.
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Chris Maunder
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I'm getting closer - I now have a small blue box with a white "X" in it, and no "script loading blocked" messages. But still no ads!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No need to tie yourself in knots on this one. Regardless, the sentiment is appreciated.
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Chris Maunder
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We've debated long and hard about alerting people to ad blockers, but our conclusion was that those that have ad blockers know they have ad blockers and don't need reminding.
However, we've also considered the case where readers install an adblocker for all those popup and nefarious ads that are around and when they come to CodeProject they simply forget they have an adblocker and would be totally fine with our ads.
If the latter's the case then we can certainly show, in blocked ad space, a "In case you forgot: you're using an adblocker"
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Chris Maunder
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Do you have stats on the percentage of visitors who block ads?
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20-25% for CodeProject (highest on weekends, lowest during the week). Way, way less than the IT industry average that's up around 50%.
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Chris Maunder
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That's pretty good. Thanks Chris.
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I know in the past that I have had problems, or at least that appeared to be the case, with some ads here. My conclusion from that would come because I would be going along just fine and then my CPU would be swamped. Closing the browser would eliminate it so, my conclusion (could be wrong), was that the ads were doing that.
Other than that I have no problem with ads.
And just noting that I use and enjoy this site enough that I would be willing pay for it also.
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Article: SHANU MVC Dashboard with Chart using AngularJS and WEB API[^]
Had one removed vote of "3" before I voted.
Has imediatelly two removed votes of "3" after I voted.
Other articles from other authors are not that protected 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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the same algorithm is applied to all votes on all items.
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Chris Maunder
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Thank you for your text.
Can you explain me either way why my vote was immediately removed? Does it means something like in case my vote of "neutral" is too different to the average than is not appropriate?
Thank you in advance.
[Edit]Btw, with or without comment it stays my vote is removed.[/Edit]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: Does it means something like in case my vote of "neutral" is too different to the average than is not appropriate?
That's exactly it.
However, should other high-rep members vote 3 then your vote may be reinstated by group consensus.
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Chris Maunder
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"group Consensus" sounds.... whatever. He has a strong Group behind him to publish such ...
Ok, please mark it as solved. My conclusion is, it is not worth to vote, sorry.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: My conclusion is, it is not worth to vote
It's not worth voting on that article, or it's not worth voting at all?
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Chris Maunder
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