Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Move to SoapBox button for Lounge posts

30-Jan-12 12:40

My suggestion was made in the light of the tie-up between "report a message" and "report a user" that caused MM to be deactivated. We've already seen what happens: MM made a "Lounge-inappropriate" message, he got blitzed and his account was fried. Twice. He wasn't abusive and he wasn't trolling. Deactivation seems a bit harsh for a relatively minor thing. OK, he was reinstated, but if people voted to move the post to the SoapBox instead the whole saga would have been prevented.

Chris Maunder wrote:
That's like saying "Just leave your junk anywhere you want. We'll put it away neatly for you".

I don't see how that is different from the current situation: Alice makes a post. Bob (not CP Bob, generic Bob) thinks it shouldn't be in the Lounge so he reports it in Sugs & Bugs. The offending message is squirrelled off to the Soapbox if the powers that be agree with Bob. The current situation just takes longer, the suggested button would just remove the administrative burden and allow the community to self-police as it does with trolling and spamming accounts. At least my that was my thinking. That said, given that CP the report an accounts stuff has been re-separated out from the report a message (and I agree with the logic that if someone repeatedly offends then removing their account is reasonable) I think the button would be a bad idea.

Chris Maunder wrote:
Why encourage laziness or arrogance?

Because along with impatience it might be a good thing[^]? Smile | :)

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Chris Maunder30-Jan-12 14:40

The "report user" needs to be updated

30-Jan-12 14:40

Keith Barrow wrote:
it might be a good thing

Touche!

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Jörgen Andersson29-Jan-12 20:45

Jörgen Andersson

29-Jan-12 20:45

This function is obviously abused in it self, but I personally don't believe that it needs/should to be removed.

My suggestion is that the Report User as troll/abusive shouldn't be enabled, unless the user have had several previous messages reported as abusive.

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The filename did not contain valid characters

kosmoh29-Jan-12 5:00

kosmoh

29-Jan-12 5:00

Dear CodeProject developers!
I was editing the article (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/321233/TMAverage) and I`ve received "The filename did not contain valid characters" when pressed Submit button. I didn`t find any problems about filename, so, I tried again - nothing changed. Then I posted another article with slightly changed names (directory name, article name). After editing and posting from one attempt I succeeded in publishing. But then, when I tried updating - got the same mistake: incvalid character in the filename. I think it`s not invalid character.
The problem was also in incorrect view of the code (that`s why I decided to update) - but in the preview window it was just OK. Any ideas?

Chris Maunder29-Jan-12 7:45

29-Jan-12 7:45

I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?

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Don Kackman29-Jan-12 7:54

Don Kackman

29-Jan-12 7:54

Hey Chris,

I am seeing this same error suddenly. I had saved a version or two of an aritcle in process but now I can't submit updates.

Don

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20 GOTO 10

Keith Barrow29-Jan-12 10:17

29-Jan-12 10:17

Chris,

I'm having the same problem & I don't have any non-ASCII characters: A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX. I tried clearing the title box and typed "ZZZZZ", it still happened.

It submitted the article OK through the wizard a couple of hours before, I was just making a few ammendments before publishing. The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"
[Edit]
I forgot to say, the page was posting back, so it wasn't client side validation. Dunno if this helps...

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modified 29-Jan-12 17:03pm.

Chris Maunder29-Jan-12 15:31

29-Jan-12 15:31

Keith Barrow wrote:
The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?

I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in.

BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

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Keith Barrow29-Jan-12 20:10

29-Jan-12 20:10

Chris Maunder wrote:
Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?

Here is what I tried:

I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error

I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though Smile | :)

Chris Maunder wrote:
BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

Please (see the primal scream below)...

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Chris Maunder30-Jan-12 5:58

30-Jan-12 5:58

I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.

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Don Kackman30-Jan-12 6:29

Don Kackman

30-Jan-12 6:29

Cool. Shall we try again?

10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth"
20 GOTO 10

Chris Maunder30-Jan-12 6:46

30-Jan-12 6:46

Please do, and let me know how it goes.

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Don Kackman30-Jan-12 6:57

Don Kackman

30-Jan-12 6:57

Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris

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20 GOTO 10

Chris Maunder30-Jan-12 7:17

30-Jan-12 7:17

I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.

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Nish Nishant30-Jan-12 7:43

Nish Nishant

30-Jan-12 7:43

Chris,

This guy has the same problem:

http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4142856/Re-Formatting-issue.aspx[^]

Regards,
Nish

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Keith Barrow30-Jan-12 11:18

30-Jan-12 11:18

Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!

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Chris Maunder30-Jan-12 14:25

ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - 2 hours work lost!!!!!

30-Jan-12 14:25

In the online HTML editor there is a button that looks like <> in a circle with a line through it. Just paste your word doc into the editor, click this button, and a lot of the grunt work in converting from Word to HTML is done.

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Keith Barrow29-Jan-12 10:22

Surely this can't be right

29-Jan-12 10:22

The article now has just disappeared. It couldn't be so bad that it merits deletion before being published, surely?

I thought this merited its own post.

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Pete O'Hanlon29-Jan-12 3:03

Pete O'Hanlon

29-Jan-12 3:03

Michael Martin's account has been closed. While his posts have been fruity of language, nothing that he posted was spam, trollish or abusive.

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OriginalGriff29-Jan-12 3:08

OriginalGriff

29-Jan-12 3:08

It looks fine to me: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=2908[^]

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Chris Maunder29-Jan-12 3:18

29-Jan-12 3:18

See my response[^].

Basically: A good idea but it needs work. MM's account is back.

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Jörgen Andersson29-Jan-12 9:55

Jörgen Andersson

29-Jan-12 9:55

Chris Maunder wrote:
MM's account is back.

Still looks gone to me.

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Pete O'Hanlon29-Jan-12 11:02

Pete O'Hanlon

29-Jan-12 11:02

He came back, but now he has been banned again. Honestly, it's like a bloody revolving door.

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Chris Maunder29-Jan-12 15:32

29-Jan-12 15:32

His colourful message is still there so members are kindly sticking daggers into it. In tomorrow's update that system will be unplugged. For now I've restored it. Again.

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Microsoft C++ MVP