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I'm concerned that these options are themselves being abused. I've noticed what I consider innocuous posts being removed. What is more disturbing is that I see specific posters being targeted. Tonight a completely harmless post in the Lounge was removed.
Is anyone else bothered by this?
My suggestion is that the option be removed or at least up the threshold so that it's not so easy to remove a post.
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As far as I can see the whole voting thing is being abused.
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It certainly seems to be.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: As far as I can see the whole voting thing is being abused.
There seems to be a group of people quick to rate a post a 1. I've noticed this a lot in the Lounge. However, even with a low rating, a post is still there for others to read and judge for themselves. Once a message is deleted, it's no longer available for the community to read and decide for themselves whatever merit it may have. This becomes increasingly frustrating when a message has several replies before it was deleted. Reading those replies, you have to guess as to the contents of the deleted message.
For obvious spam, e.g. "Visit my website," this isn't much of a problem. But my impression is that most deleted messages are not spam but rather messages that for whatever arbitrary reasons offend the voters.
I think the intentions behind "Report as Spam or Abuse" option are good, but I don't think it's working out to the benefit of the posting community here at Code Project.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: the whole voting thing is being abused.
True. We also have a Univoter Virus which keeps striking every now and then.
There is more a mis-use and ABuse than use. CP Team has to bring in more resilence to it. 
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Leslie Sanford wrote: a completely harmless post in the Lounge was removed.
Is it not checked by CP staff?
I would have guessed that everybody could mark a message as spam or abuse (which I also would change to at least 'Silver' members and higher), and only the CP staff is able to remove the message.
All the best,
Martin
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True.
Voting rights needs to be vested with responsible members only.
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Hey Chris & Co, in the SoapBox,I tried to Select the text, and to click the Quote Selected Text it is not working.
But while doing that it says Done. But with Error in Page it says.?
What could be the Reason?
I tried for so many times it says the same always.
Regards,
Satips. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow;
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus
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Satips,
Satips wrote: Done. But with Error in Page it says.?
Did you ensure the page loaded completely for any dependency .JS files for completing the download? Because, I guess 'Quote Selected Text' is by far the most heavily used feature in CP messageboards and I don't think CP Team would have left it untested.
It works for me even in this post too.
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Kyle.... It just doesn't have the same ring to it as "Khaaaaaaaann" (a la Jim Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
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Hello,
Would you please consider listing the number of search results returned from a query (or number of pages). Sometimes when searching for an article where I know some of the keywords, I have to browse through a bunch of articles to find the one I want, and it would be nice to know in advance if I'd have to potentially browse through 1000 articles (in which case I'd revise my search terms).
Thanks,
Phil
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And also make the number of returned results per page configurable.
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This will be added
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I was just curious about this dropdown and researched through the FAQ but I don't see it explained.
Message score threshold
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I would assume that it means you only see messages that have scores above that threshold, but from what I can tell it doesn't do anything... maybe there has to be a certain number of votes for it to be considered, or something.
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AFAIK it's the number of votes needed to gray a message out for a low score. Highly nonintuitive, and I suspect originally used for something else.
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You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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dan neely wrote: Highly nonintuitive
and truly magic! 
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When a new message is posted in forums/Lounge, it appears in Homepage right? But why not messages from Soapbox?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: But why not messages from Soapbox?
One of the reasons the SB was created was to keep some of the 'salty' thread titles off of the homepage.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: to keep some of the 'salty' thread titles off of the homepage
Fine. 
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Absolutely true.
Regards,
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow;
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: When a new message is posted in forums/Lounge, it appears in Homepage right? But why not messages from Soapbox?
The soapbox and its content is probably the least impressive aspect about Codeproject. I am pretty sure Chris wouldn't want to advertise it anymore than he has to. Like Shog said once, the soapbox is CP's a***hole (spelling modified for Chris) - and you don't advertise your a***hole!
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Like Shog said once, the soapbox is CP's a***hole
Ewww, that is one way to put it. Makes sense to me.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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