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The change was made to deal with the huge number of spammers who register an account, add the spam link as their home page and/or in the biography, and wait for the search engines to index it.
Prevent adding a home page link until on sufficient member level[^]
I don't know what the threshold is, but I assume it was set to something sensible. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This article: Thread Wrapper for Modern C++[^]
has the text from this article: All in One Toolchain for Article Writing with Visual Studio Code[^]
Given that Sergey is a prolific writer, I think maybe CP messed up somehow.
#SupportHeForShe
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Let's say, in article submission wizard, we have some comment text in HTML (entered or pasted in "source" mode):
<!-- some comment inside -->
When article is submitted, it is rendered exactly as it is shown above.
I understand that this is "not a bug, a feature", but rendering of comments is really hard to expect. It's pretty natural to have comments in original HTML, never rendered on the page. And I do understand that raw HTML code should be modified by the submission process: script and other unsafe elements needs to be eliminated, syntax coloring inside pre, etc., but… comments… After all, this is a "source" mode. Could we have an "as is" mode which does all such modifications but leaves safe and correct HTML syntax intact?
I'm reporting this issue not as a bug and not as a suggestion, just want to bring this issue to attention.
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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We actually spent a fair bit of energy debating whether to strip or HTML encode comments.
Unfortunately, possibly because there was beer involved, I've forgotten the salient points.
Maybe we just strip out comments, eh?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sure, stripping them out would be much better.
Keeping and not rendering them would be even better, but it's not really important, because who would want to seriously rely on them? For one thing, it's hard to imagine a crazy writer who will store a lot of information in comments if they are preserved. From the other hand, if they are not preserved, who would regret about them?
As to rendering them… HTML comment rendering would be needed only for people writing on HTML, but what value can we expect from an author having problems rendering HTML comments in HTML without your help?
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Recently, I published an article with my new article-writing toolchain: All in One Toolchain for Article Writing with Visual Studio Code.
After the files are uploaded and source code ZIP files are referenced, there is only one step needed to write the entire body of the article: paste HTML code pre-created offline. This is a very convenient and reliable thing, now made available to all CodeProject authors.
More, exactly, this is so with one exclusion: I have only one fix to do manually: TOC styles. I cannot automate it, because it is prevented by CodeProject style.
And this problem is not hard to fix. I described the nature of the problem and the solution here:
A suggestion for CodeProject TOC Style Fix.
Thank you for considering this suggestion.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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One important addition would be Visual-Studio-Code, which is majorly unrelated to Visual-Studio.
Code-Blocks would also be useful.
A while ago, the tags of some concrete Visual Studio versions were added, not always matching actually used Visual Studio version. Moreover, since Visual Studio 2015 (approximately), automatic detection of the actual version is not always possible, as Microsoft started to unify and reuse the solution formats/metadata and project tool versions. So, the detection should better be eliminated. The tags should be left to the article authors, I think.
[UPDATE: I just checked up: this is still a problem: VS2013 is automatically added, but Visual Studio 2015 is actually used]
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Authors can add their own (new) tags if they have sufficient reputation.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: Code-Blocks would also be useful.
As a tag?
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: automatic detection of the actual version is not always possible
I'm removing this now.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Great, thank you very much, Chris.
I'll try to remove incorrect tags from my articles when this feature is fixed (probably not yet). I already saw "Visual Studio 2017"; this is great.
Do we need Code-Blocks as a tag? I would say: why not? if we have "visual-studio", why not some other popular IDE? Code::Blocks is popular enough, I thinks. (By the way, can it appear in correct verbatim spelling on the page, such as "Visual Studio", "Visual Studio 2017", "Code::Blocks", without dashes?) If we list some IDE at all, probably "Visual Studio Code", "Eclipse", "NetBeans" are also important enough, "MonoDevelop", "SharpDevelop", "Free Pascal Lazarus" could be considered — there is something to think about. It may need another keyboard column, after all...
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Actually it turns out that sniffing can be done more accurately, so I've updated instead of removing this feature.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: can it appear in correct verbatim spelling on the page...without dashes?
We used to be able to do this but with user-supplied tags this is harder (for us).
Tags are traditionally alphanumeric (with dashes) for a few (probably out of date) reasons. We had (internally) the tag name in a form that was more human friendly but by opening up the system so users could add tags we've lost the ability to add richer info to the tags. We could simply make tags editable and ask people to provide a full name, maybe a logo, synonyms etc, but I'm not sure how many would take up the challenge.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Okay, then you probably need to look at these two projects. I've just re-tested the problem of unwanted persistent tag with them:
Thread Wrapper for Modern C++,
Conveyor Thread Wrapper for Modern C++.
To both article, the tag VS2013 is added on submission. The attempts to remove or replace those tags did not work. Needless to say, none of them contain VS 2013 solutions or projects, I don't even have this version anymore. I am not sure any detectable difference exists though.
Any thoughts?
—SASergey A Kryukov
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If two people sit in a car and five get out, how many must get back into the car so that it is empty?
Seriously, as new undead CP member I'm not concerned so much about reputation points, but subtracting 200 points for not wanting four newsletters (each worth 50 points I never received) has put me under scrutiny as a spammer and that's a little annoying.
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It's not a maths problem, it's a bug.
I'm on it. (and apologies)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No problem. The logic behind keeping an eye on new users that drop below 100 reputation points is understandable.
Meanwhile I hopefully will find ways to get over the minimum 100 reputation points and then I will be off the hook again. 
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Looks like you're already there.
Unfortunately spam means the internet has become like airport security: a fraction of a tiny fraction make life annoying for pretty much everyone. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Unfortunately spam means the internet has become like airport security: a fraction of a tiny fraction make life annoying for pretty much everyone.
It has never been different, not even when we still lived in caves. There are always a few who are the reason for 90% of the rules, laws, taboos, commandments (or whatever the regulations are called).
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Is that the most passive aggressive bug report you ever got? 
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Nah, I just wanted to avoid a boring bug report or whining about reputation points.
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Hi,
It doesn't appear that the QA filter, setup in my account settings, takes effect when I go to QA. Up until a few days ago it worked OK, I must be missing something.
Chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit)
Win 10 Pro Version 10.0.14393
Thanks
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Have you changed any of the selectors on the home page, as that will affect it?
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Interesting thought, I haven't changed anything purposefully. Just took a gander at the site filters on the home page and indeed they're set correctly.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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QA filters no longer auto-populate. I'm going to reinstate this but it was done to help us with a new system we're integrating. Sorry for the annoyance.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No problem.
You've got a great site here by the way.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hi,
I would like to kindly suggest you to fix the bug which refers to your contact form and the pick list with the country names.
When a member who is from Montenegro pick this country in a contact form, this country does not appear in the profile but the wrong country name - Yugoslavia. Montenegro used to be a part of Yugoslavia but since 2006 is independent. So you should synchronize the pick list with country names with what is seen in the profile.
Thanks,
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