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Another one with articles

4-Jan-21 3:05

Interesting, and good sleuthing.

We really should just switch to Markdown and be done with it.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Patrice T4-Jan-21 3:12

Patrice T

4-Jan-21 3:12

When articles include code with tabs, tabs are 4 spaces while published.
But article editor (at least in source mode) are 8 spaces for a tab.

And same with Q&A editor.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

modified 6-Jan-21 16:13pm.

Top Articles: 0.0

raddevus30-Dec-20 12:08

raddevus

30-Dec-20 12:08

I was just taking a look at the Top Articles[^] and I noticed that they all have popularity values of 0.0.

Do you know why that is? It must just be incorrect in the list, right?
In case it changes, here is what I see (look closely at the Popularity value of these top 5 articles[^]).

I tried to search to see if this has already been reported and I didn't find anything.

Re: Top Articles: 0.0

Chris Maunder30-Dec-20 12:10

30-Dec-20 12:10

That looks suspiciously like a bug. Thanks for spotting it.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Reaction Adjustment

W∴ Balboos, GHB30-Dec-20 5:37

30-Dec-20 5:37

I think thew's a great deal of possibility if we add the 🚾 icon

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Re: Reaction Adjustment

Chris Maunder30-Dec-20 7:58

30-Dec-20 7:58

🙄

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Reaction Adjustment

W∴ Balboos, GHB11-Jan-21 1:29

11-Jan-21 1:29

I'm now deciding if my feelings are hurt and my self image crushed.

You added new icon to the Reactions - and my suggestion wasn't amongst them. Do me of the variations on the 'happy face' really provide a more telling commentary? A little face with it's tongue stuck out rather than suggesting the comment was worthy of a good hard flush?

You have mighty powers - you should remember to use them for good ! 🐓💩*

* possibly a rebus ?

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

delete Account

User 1258957930-Dec-20 3:01

User 12589579

30-Dec-20 3:01

i want to delete a account please help me i dont want to use codeproject now.

modified 27-Jan-21 21:02pm.

Re: delete Account

Greg Utas30-Dec-20 3:11

Greg Utas

30-Dec-20 3:11

1: At the upper right of this page, click on your user name when you're logged in. This brings up your profile.
2: On the menu at the left, click on "My Settings".
3: Click on the "Privacy" tab on the right of the light yellow shaded bar.
4: Check the box beside "Forget me Forever"
5: Click on "Save My Settings" at the bottom.

Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

modified 30-Dec-20 16:11pm.

Season's Grousings

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 2:19

28-Dec-20 2:19

I guess I'm just really good at making friends ! There were a few little -2 hits in the last couple of weeks but no big deal - but sometimes, as in this web snippet, it's a bit puzzling. Two of the other three answers also said, essentially, do your own homework and were not similarly embellished.

Well, I guess it will take just a bit longer to catch up to OG.

Anyone else enjoying this "visitor" or do I get to feel really special ?

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Richard MacCutchan28-Dec-20 4:19

Richard MacCutchan

28-Dec-20 4:19

Not me. Looks like it's personal.

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 4:25

28-Dec-20 4:25

Thanks - just curious. Fortunately, I don't plan on winning anything with points (there are prizes, right?). They're sort of bit of a place keeper to see if anyone even notices what one posts.

I think I'll take this genius' remarks as a compliment to something, somewhere, that really got to their core. It really is sort of a compliment !

Now, on with living: I have to work on the options (replies) for that screen capture thing I posted that will work in the Win7/.NET 4.7.0/VS2015 world in which I need to make it happen.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Sean Ewington28-Dec-20 4:40

Sean Ewington

28-Dec-20 4:40

The question is now closed, so I can't see the vote. If the trend continues, please let me know.

But I'd also like to use this opportunity to remind everyone not to suggest to users that they are submitting their homework/homework questions. Sometimes it turns out to be much older users who are not students, and then using CodeProject becomes a bad experience for them.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 5:09

28-Dec-20 5:09

OK - let's (for the moment) accept your preposition that it might not be homework.

So often, however, the initial problem is specified in prose that surely seem like a class assignment. How might this be addressed? In admittedly either/or terms, how do we handle such posts in the weighing of the probability of it being an old timer trying to learn new tricks vs. an apprentice leach?

The closest to resolution that comes to mind is prefacing with "this seems like it might be a homework question".

Surely we don't want to punish the guilty - in what seems ofttimes like a barrel of bad apples, there may yet be some yet unspoiled.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Sean Ewington28-Dec-20 5:55

Sean Ewington

28-Dec-20 5:55

OriginalGriff and I have talked about this before. His answer is pretty good:

"We are more than willing to help those that are stuck: but that doesn't mean that we are here to do it all for you! We can't do all the work, it wouldn't be at all fair for us to do it all for you.

So we need you to do the work, and we will help you when you get stuck. That doesn't mean we will give you a step by step solution you can hand in! Start by explaining where you are at the moment, and what the next step in the process is. Then tell us what you have tried to get that next step working, and what happened when you did."

But since this isn't really a solution, but an offering for the user to revisit their thought process, this is best posted as a comment.

Also, if in a lot of these cases, these users don't seem to re-think anything, and the question doesn't get answered, just report the question and it will be removed in time.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 6:07

28-Dec-20 6:07

Just something for you to check into:

So just after I replied to you I got hit again. Since it was -16, you may wish to check if was the same user, and if so, how they can do it twice to the same Answer posting.

Other than that, I'll try to take both of the above into consideration. A boilerplate is really useful - can be more detailed without burden, and put in as a comment (although I'll never reach 2x10⁷ points that way*).

* . . . to reach for the stars when your arms are too weary, . . . to dream the impossible dream.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

User 1499778228-Dec-20 8:21

User 14997782

28-Dec-20 8:21

What kind of poor nature are you? Whining about -16 and not mention the +40 which are most probably not earned?

modified 25-Jan-21 21:01pm.

Sean Ewington28-Dec-20 11:11

Sean Ewington

28-Dec-20 11:11

I'm not sure about the time markings on the Reputation, but I opened the question so I could look at the votes before closing it again. Two separate, high-level members downvoted your answer.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

W∴ Balboos, GHB29-Dec-20 0:51

29-Dec-20 0:51

Sean Ewington wrote:
Two separate, high-level members downvoted your answer

As Kurt Vonnegutt put it "and so it goes".

At least the voting still is limited to one-to-one (the useful reason to reopen it and check).

Thanks for making sure things keep rolling along.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

BabyYoda1-Jan-21 4:42

BabyYoda

1-Jan-21 4:42

Why do you worry about points?

W∴ Balboos, GHB4-Jan-21 1:17

Import GitHub Project generates wrong links

4-Jan-21 1:17

Because they're there?

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov27-Dec-20 16:17

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

27-Dec-20 16:17

The anchor text contents are "Download latest Repository Archive" and "Download local copy", the referenced content is

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest"
}

Are there some requirements I missed and should meet to resolve it? It is possible to comment out the links manually from a CodeProject post and rely on explicitly written links, but next push of the content to GitHub will restore them.

All for all, this GitHub-CodeProject integration looks impressive.

Thank you.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Re: Import GitHub Project generates wrong links

Chris Maunder30-Dec-20 8:00