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Re: Something very wrong in the sales/marketing forum...

OriginalGriff13-Oct-23 1:50

13-Oct-23 1:50

Interestingly, the first of them was reported / kicked out on that day: Pujari Ashwini is a spammer - Gone[^]
The second one was reported on 3rd April 2022, and it looks like he died the following day: Spammer from moderation queue (Member 15588951)[^]

So there is more than an evens chance that the date shown is when they were kicked - no idea how they got attached to a much more recent post though!

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Why do some of the smileys add a space, but not all?

OriginalGriff6-Oct-23 19:57

OriginalGriff

6-Oct-23 19:57

As in ...

 :) 
 :-D 
 :laugh: 
 ;) 
 ;P 
 :^) 
 :( 
 :sigh: 
 :doh: 
 :(( 
 :zzz: 
 :omg: 
 :wtf: 
:mad:
:confused:
:~
 :| 
 X| 
:suss:
:cool:
:rose:
:thumbsup:
:thumbsdown:
:java:

Re: Why do some of the smileys add a space, but not all?

RedDk8-Oct-23 8:10

RedDk

8-Oct-23 8:10

Probably for the same reason that as an editor of a post, improving the post not reauthoring it, the edit ability is accompanied by ghost writer supernatural abilities. One of which is recognized by the webpage under edit (for example in QA; pick a post, any post ...) if there is nothing in the "What I have tried" textbox, after you've swung that iron rod through vampire lower-cased "i" and made it an "I", you will be prompted to provide a text in it. And be handcuffed and processed down at the station by the "cancel" button in due time.

No. I'm not wondering how the original author managed to escape unmanacled in the first place.

[EDIT]
I'm really worried about Member 16101359. He's not getting the points due to him as a registered CP user. He also, at least from this angle, seems to be distraught:

Not his usual chipper self:

OriginalGriff wrote:

[END EDIT]

modified 14-Oct-23 14:36pm.

Re: Why do some of the smileys add a space, but not all?

OriginalGriff8-Oct-23 18:35

OriginalGriff

8-Oct-23 18:35

That's happened to me a few times as well ...

Re: Why do some of the smileys add a space, but not all?

Chris Maunder11-Oct-23 5:55

Chris Maunder

11-Oct-23 5:55

It's to help the smileys to be parsed. And interestingly, the addition of the space hasn't been consistent in our code.

And you forgot Good Stuff | [The good stuff]

and

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Why do some of the smileys add a space, but not all?

OriginalGriff11-Oct-23 6:14

OriginalGriff

11-Oct-23 6:14

They are "typed only" - I was talking about the smiley buttons to the right of this text box.
If I click Smile | :)

I get

[space]:)[space]

While

gives me

:suss:

with no spaces.

"Friends" w/ Private email capability

honey the codewitch5-Oct-23 5:19

honey the codewitch

5-Oct-23 5:19

The email feature was really useful so that people could network and connect, collaborate on projects, and things like that.

I understand why it's gone, but I want to impress upon the reader just how valuable I think it is.

What if we could bring it back safely?

What if we had a "friend" feature - where you can mark someone as a potential friend. if they accept, you have a private email link whenever you reply to them, or you can go to their profile and send a private message that way.

But only between friends?

Just a thought.

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Re: "Friends" w/ Private email capability

Nelek5-Oct-23 9:06

Nelek

5-Oct-23 9:06

honey the codewitch wrote:
or you can go to their profile and send a private message that way.

I suppose that will be easier to implement and for me is valid enough. Good idea.

I agree and second it.

M.D.V.

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Wordle

Gary R. Wheeler4-Oct-23 12:00

Gary R. Wheeler

4-Oct-23 12:00

Could we please automatically redirect Wordle posts in the Lounge somewhere else? Sigh | :sigh:

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Wordle

Richard MacCutchan4-Oct-23 21:04

Richard MacCutchan

4-Oct-23 21:04

Totally agree, they are well past their sell-by date.

Re: Wordle

Chris Maunder5-Oct-23 3:14

Chris Maunder

5-Oct-23 3:14

A World Forum?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Wordle

Richard MacCutchan5-Oct-23 3:20

Richard MacCutchan

5-Oct-23 3:20

There is most likely one already built, perhaps on X. Unsure | :~

Re: Wordle

jeron15-Oct-23 4:03

jeron1

5-Oct-23 4:03

You forgot the "formerly known a twitter" part, I've not seen a reference to X without it.

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Re: Wordle

Richard MacCutchan5-Oct-23 4:16

Richard MacCutchan

5-Oct-23 4:16

No, I deliberately left it out. So this could be the first (or should that be second) time X has appeared in print without it.

Re: Wordle

jeron15-Oct-23 4:26

jeron1

5-Oct-23 4:26

You trailblazer you!

Re: Wordle

Jörgen Andersson5-Oct-23 21:28

Jörgen Andersson

5-Oct-23 21:28

A 'Game discussions' forum perhaps.
And then move CCC over to it as well.

Then again, if you move all special interests over to their own forums, I suspect the lounge will be quite empty.

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Article appears to be approved but is still pending

honey the codewitch4-Oct-23 5:03

honey the codewitch

4-Oct-23 5:03

This might not be a bug. It might be me being an idiot, but there is currently 1 article pending approval. I went to approve it and there's no option for that, but 3 approvals already.

It still says pending, but with 3 approvals to publish shouldn't it be published?

And otherwise, shouldn't I have the option to mark it as approved?

Something seems amiss.

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Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

Nelek4-Oct-23 5:35

Nelek

4-Oct-23 5:35

honey the codewitch wrote:
It still says pending, but with 3 approvals to publish shouldn't it be published?

5 needed

honey the codewitch wrote:
And otherwise, shouldn't I have the option to mark it as approved?

Not if you comented the article and landed after the redirecting to the previous version. It happens me more than I would like to do.

Go out to the home page, click on the moderation queue again on this article, then you should see the "aprove" again

In the meanwhile... it got approved:

M.D.V.

Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

honey the codewitch4-Oct-23 5:37

honey the codewitch

4-Oct-23 5:37

Ah, so indeed it was me being an idiot. Laugh | :laugh:

Thanks!

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Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

0x01AA4-Oct-23 6:38

0x01AA

4-Oct-23 6:38

Strange, I thought you don't need to go through moderation?

Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

honey the codewitch4-Oct-23 6:39

honey the codewitch

4-Oct-23 6:39

This wasn't about my article, but someone else's I was trying to approve. And not a bug, just me being a goof.

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Re: Article appears to be approved but is still pending

0x01AA4-Oct-23 6:42

0x01AA

4-Oct-23 6:42

Uuuups

What happened to my rep privileges?

honey the codewitch3-Oct-23 2:20

honey the codewitch

3-Oct-23 2:20

Update: Also my article says approved by editor or trusted author when i navigate to it, but it's actually pending approval (shouldn't need to wait for that in my case) and it's not published.

Ever since this morning some of my comments are getting marked as spam and when I tried to update my article it told me it would have to go through the approval process. Given my rep points this shouldn't be happening, and has never happened to me before.

Can someone look into this? Thanks.

Site layout is normal for me now though. Progress!

Update: Site layout is borked again. Oops!

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modified 3-Oct-23 8:46am.

Re: What happened to my rep privileges?

Matthew Dennis3-Oct-23 5:18

Matthew Dennis

3-Oct-23 5:18

We had some backend server issues this morning, which hopefully have been resolved.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Re: What happened to my rep privileges?

honey the codewitch3-Oct-23 5:24

honey the codewitch

3-Oct-23 5:24

Thank you!

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