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If I'm not mistaken this grew over time.
Deleted answers (back when comments where not yet implemented) used to be deleted for real but this caused all sorts of problems and weirdness with indexes and such.
So now deleted answers / comments don't get deleted for real just hidden for everyone except the OP (or users with permissions to see the deleted items)
I think this is the intended behavior but you'll have to wait for Chris to confirm this.
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We've never deleted comments, we just set them as "deleted".
The issue was we used to hide them but then members wanted a way to undelete them, so we showed them. Then they complained it was noisy, so we hide them and provided a button to show/hide them. Then they complained more and so we made "show" the default.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks. This makes it clear.
My Blog
What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
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Really, users who complain, impossible
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: but this caused all sorts of problems and weirdness with indexes and such.
Whoa that would have caused all sorts of problems for the Hamsters alright. I suppose this is a normal functionality then.
My Blog
What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
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and barely moving. upstate new york if that makes a difference (server location?).
Also, every time I vote for something it takes 30-45 seconds to finish...this goes for bookmarking as well. It takes about 45 secs to a minutes to see the reputation graph. All other sites I go to are working just fine and my internet connection is good.
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I think there were very few instances for me where the page didn't even load at all. Very few though so I guess that doesn't count as something big. Other than that it was fine for me.
My Blog
What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
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We've just had a full code update so it was slow while it was spooling up, and also during the periods when we turned off half the servers. The database was also updated and it didn't like that at all. Not one bit.
should be good now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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thanks Chris. All is well now.
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Web22 very slow loading Lounge: > 40 secs.
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Web19 seems to be still suffering, took more than a min to load the lounge.
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Not sure, may be just me, but CP is too slow right now.
Last hour an half... have got 'Page cannot be displayed' numerous times, in IE. Any message or comment is taking time to get posted.
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I have just edited a Q in Q&A and on posting got the error message above.
I therefore had to add something to the OPs subject in order to get it accepted.
This seems a bit arbitrary.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Did you mean ????????????????????????????????? ?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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It used to be 15-150 but I increased it.
Is it truly possible for the average user to ask a sensibly titled question in under 30 characters? Is it that difficult to think for 5 seconds and clarify your question to make up 30 characters?
Anything that makes people stop and think about their question is good in my books. Frankly I'm fed up with people not bothering to even try and ask a sensible question, let alone searching CodeProject or Google first.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Fairy snuff.
In that particular case I thought the original subject was OK, though.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I agree with the minimum - 30 is about right - but perhaps the max is too long? 150 chars is a lot of words: more than some put into the whole question!
It isn't meant to be the whole question, just enough of a "taster" that you can tell if you know about the subject before you open it. Plus shorter subject equals better looking summary page - just a thought.
How about 30-80 characters?
Oh, and can we have the age of the question back, for unanswered questions?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
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I think you need to tighten it up a little, say... 30 to 31 characters.
BTW, this also affected the Tips/Tricks. I went to edit one I posted yesterday, and it wouldn't let me post the edit until I INCREASED the length of the title by at least five characters.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Now I know the reason why people put extra question marks and quotation marks in their posts.
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There is a designer I work with who would like to know what you use to colorize code with PRE tags. Is it something that's easily pluggable, or did you make it yourself? Basically, we have an ASP.Net site we run and he'd like to add code to the style guide he's making so developers can copy it. For example:
<span style="button">This is a Button</span>
I know there are many code colorizers out there, but the one on Code Project is the best I've seen.
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It's completely custom - specifically because none of the others out there could do what was needed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Bummer, but thanks for the quick response. I'll sick him on something else.
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