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So how do I find out what other questions and such a poster has posted to see what sorts of problems he's had and also what he means by "Thanks to Richard I was able to go a little further in the process ... " ?
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I have just seen the new design.
One of the interesting thing that I do before reporting a question is checking if author have just done a Repost or not.
reporting the question comes only after I ensured it is really a repost and not 2 student with same homework.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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And how do we know when the OP has posted an Answer to his own question -- whether it's an actual solution or simply trying to add information?
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I can't see who posted which Coding Challenge. 
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Another down of new design:
Now, when I get an answer to a comment, I have to check the author's profile to know if he is the author of question or not.
Previous design was more practical.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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ppolymorphe wrote: I have to check the author's profile to know if he is the author of question or not
Out of interest: why does it matter?
How many times have you asked a question, only to find the answer pretty much straight after you ask? Does the person asking the question keep quiet or do they do everyone else who has that question a favour and post the answer?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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When someone post a solution that is obviously not a solution to the question.
If it is the author of question, I usually post a comment advising to use Improve question.
If it is not the author of question, it usually lead to a report as 'not a solution'.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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This bit I don't understand.
Either an answer is a an answer or it's not. If it's a bad answer then downvote it and/or post a comment asking to improve the answer. If it's spam or abuse then mark it as that. If it's just not an answer then mark it as not an answer.
I don't get how the author of the answer affects any of this.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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New members often do the mistake of using a solution because they don't know how to update the question.
So explaining the 'Improve question' only makes sense if I know it is the author of question.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Sorry - not enough caffeine. I read "improve question" as "improve answer".
OK, so what if we marked an answer by the questioner as "self answered"? This still achieves my goal of having the focus on the question not the person.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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After it being this way for about a month, I have concluded that I do not like this. The reason is I have posted a few long replies to questions and received no acknowledgement what so ever that the questioner even saw it. For this reason, I would tend to refrain from answering any more of that users questions. When one does not know who posted the question this is not possible.
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OTOH, maintaining a list of users to whom you do not want to answer anymore can become quite annoying 
Moderators can see poster's names; you may persist answering/moderating the forum, you will get moderator's rights and be able to see the names.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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I am reading through an article and some of the longer code segments are screen shots so I clicked the Browse Code link on the left and the Downloads page loaded. I browsed to the file I wanted and it had line numbers in the code block. It would be nice to have a Copy Code link that would copy just the code to the clipboard without the line numbers. Or perhaps the author pasted in the line numbers? Not sure. But a copy code button would still be nice.
In case it is necessary, it is from here, Downloads: Angular Tutorial - Part 2: Understanding Modules and Controllers[^]
index.html
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I just checked, line numbers are included by default when you use the "Browse code" functionality.
Thus, these line numbers have not been included by author, they are here no matter the file type.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Cool. Thanks for checking. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Done. I'll do final test and deploy tomorrow morning.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I see the Copy Code link now which is great. However, maybe I was not very clear in my post. It would be nice to copy without the line numbers. If you then paste the code into your copy of the project from the article you are going through you have to manually remove all line numbers.
Also, all my less than signs came out as &alt; so pasting won't work. Of course a quick find and replace in the app is not too hard.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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This has been fixed too.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Beautiful. That's awesome. Thanks.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I suggest newcomer immunity for downvote for either few questions (3 for example) or a minimal score.
I dont see the point of downvoting a new user other then hurting thier feelings and/Or discoraging them from continuing using CP or any other similar form.
We are here to help, nothing else.
I posted this because the main downvoter are CP Experts. they are supossed to be the most comprehensive.
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Soooo, if I think your question is poor, I can't downvote it because it might hurt someone's feelings? Believe me, I can do far more damage to the ego with words than I can with a vote button. There's a very comprehensive discussion here[^]. Ultimately, if someone takes the time to follow the guidelines I wrote about over 10 years ago[^], they are less likely to be downvoted, this stuff isn't new.
This space for rent
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Actucaly, i am the one who opened the discution you linked. I am not against downvote in general, but against downvoting newcomers. i think that downvoting is not worth it because it can do more harm then good for new members . why not forgive everyone first bads questions ?
If the member have already used CP previously, i myself will downvote if needed.
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Some of them are more than 7 days old!
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It depends on what you are watching. Some Forums do not get a lot of new stuff, so the latest may be old.
If you were following a busy(ish) Forum like The Lounge, you would most likely only see reasonably new stuff.
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