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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I took the time to post articles and contribute on the web site, so I think my request deserves more than just a little consideration.
you are right, and with the new servers turned on, Chris can not look for any new excuses now 
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Tell me how to fiuter that crap out of my email when all the text (including the sender) is different every f***in time.
that's why I wrote "if the problem is not epidemic", luckyly there are not so many id***s here at CP, we are a good and positive community in the end.
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Davide Pizzolato wrote:
luckyly there are not so many id***s here at CP, we are a good and positive community in the end.
Sadly, the idiot level is growing. As CP grows, the more idiots will be attracted. John's suggestions would give the CP team some ideas on how to combat the problems that will be forthcoming.
Michael
But you know when the truth is told,
That you can get what you want or you can just get old,
Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through.
When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Actually, both 3 and 4 would be good
4th one ??
I have lost more blood shaving than on the battlefield - Adolf Hitler
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Corrected.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
1) Disallow message posting by non-registered users.
No point. Creating new ID's is easy, and besides, stupid comments aren't relegated to non-members.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
2) Give individual (registered) users the ability to disallow non-registered users from posting messages for that user's articles.
See above.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
3) Give individual (registered) users the ability to disallow the use of foreign (non-english) languages in messages for that user's articles.
And this can be achieved how?
I understand your issues but how about a better solution: If a user posts messages that are uniformly voted down by members then that person loses their ability to post. This then covers abusive language, unintelligible posts, stupid and misplaced questions and general lameness.
And then, of course, that person can simply create a new ID. Or, more to the point, that person will often be a newcomer and will already have done their damage by the time they are banned.
We either have a stuffy, boring, inhibited site for elite members where people are constantly watching their tongues, or something a little more fun and creative where the occasional problem arises, but which is outweighed by the freedom to be occasionally stupid.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
the freedom to be occasionally stupid.
I demand my right to be stupid! And, of course, I'll defend you when it's your turn.
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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Yeah, fine, have a good laugh. But let's see what happens if this moron starts posting on *your* articles.
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This isn't about "stupid comments". This is about an *unregistered* user abusing *my* membership here.
I asked him once to stop, and then I got mad, yet he continues to post illegible bullshit on my article. I'm getting what amounts to spam because people are allowed to post without registering first. If you'd like, I can forward all the crap I've been.
The voting system is (IMHO) a complete waste of time (and some of us strive to get down-voted as often as possible). This idiot is posting messages in my articles - NOT on the Lounge, so not too many people are going to even see it unless I bring it up. "Voting it down" will have little effect if only one or two people see it.
I don't think it's too much to ask to have people register if they want to participate on the site. Reading articles and messages shouldn't require registration, but if they want to post a message, or post/download an article, they should be forced to register first.
Looks to me like over 900,000 other people didn't mind registering, so why the reluctance to require it?
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Looks to me like over 900,000 other people didn't mind registering, so why the reluctance to require it?
Because I doubt it will solve anything. I will think about it though.
What about the option to turn off email notifications on your articles? (on an article-by-article basis if need be). Would that help?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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What about giving the article's author the ability to delete messages on their own articles or at least flag the messages so an admin or moderator can check the message out to see if it really should go?
Jeremy Falcon
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I think requiring registration would solve my problem because then I coupld report the abuse and you could terminate the person's account, thus eliminating the abuse.
"What about the option to turn off email notifications on your articles?"
I don't think that's conducive to the community that we all enjoy here.
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I don't know how the scoring works in storing information but I assume that if you reject repeat score that it stores you score and identity somewhere in the database. Instead of rejecting a second score, maybe instead it could replace the score with the second score, so people who change their minds can do so. Like all those people that gave me a 1.0 - in case they change their mind - as they realize that they have made a terrible terrible mistake.
My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds
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Good idea... 
Paul 
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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I'm sick of seeing those ERROR 500 pages when using Mozilla or FireFox. And when I open up the microsoft crap, everything's just fine...
greetz
*Niels Penneman*
Software/Dev Site
Personal Site
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We ensure that IE and Mozilla users get an equal share of error 500 messages as they become available.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
Why cant a good friendly looking static page be shown to the user instead of 500 error.
"Fear not of those who can kill the body and not the soul, rather fear Him who can kill both body and soul" - Bible
Prakash,
India.
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LOL, its nothing to do with IE or Mozilla, it was pure "IE's Luck" that codeproject was up during the time u started looking up for codeproject using IE.
Prakash,
India.
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I don't think that is 100% right.
I use Mozilla Firebird (Firefox is still buggy) and Codeproject works just fine.
But:
I can't use the Contribute Wizard. It displays an error message telling me that I don't have IE4 and above or Netscape installed.
And hell, I know that my little browser is capable of handling that site.
greetings Illuvatan
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I wish to see this
the number of users viewed the article is not enough to know how many readers were really interested in it.
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Mr.Prakash wrote:
I believe the replies should also be deleted coz they dont make any sense without the post that started the conversion.
I believe users should not be allowed to delete posts that have replies to them.
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the work, which will become a new genre unto itself, will be called...
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I agree.
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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I agree too. 
Paul 
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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When a person deletes a message it will be replaced with a placeholder to make it all make sense. Patience.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hear, hear!
Paul
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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Paul van der Walt wrote:
Hear, hear!
I heard, I guess we both were wroung about the suggestions, Chris had something different in his mind.
Prakash,
India.
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