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hi,
I think it would be nice to somehow highlight "Do not treat <'s as HTML tags" text (red and bold?), or maybe reformulate the text... lot of people are confused, like "who the hell ate my XML tags??" 
yes, it's fairly obvious what "Do not treat <'s as HTML tags" means, but again and again I see lot of post duplicated (in better case  ) because of this.
Any ideas?
just my 2 cents
David
Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy
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Three ideas:
1) make it the default option, or one that must be turned off in preferences in order for it to stick.
2) replace all posters with new ones, better ones, ones that know to look for both the checkbox and the [edit] link when they screw up. We may need to institute a regimented breeding and training program to accomplish this, and needless to say it would be exceedingly long-term.
3) leave things as they are, recognizing malformed posts as one more indication of someone who really doesn't want a reply.
You must be careful in the forest
Broken glass and rusty nails
If you're to bring back something for us
I have bullets for sale...
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Shog9 wrote:
recognizing malformed posts as one more indication of someone who really doesn't want a reply.
That's alright except when it is the reply.
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True.
You must be careful in the forest
Broken glass and rusty nails
If you're to bring back something for us
I have bullets for sale...
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Shog9 wrote:
1) make it the default option, or one that must be turned off in preferences in order for it to stick.
The only problem is that it will break all the "pretty" html people put in their sig, Shog9. They would have to separate that out from the content either with some kind of parser, or with adding an extra database field.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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The sig and the message are initially sent as separate values - shouldn't be hard to treat one as HTML, the other as text. Yeah, going back and editing it would be odd, but no worse than if the user had just posted escaped HTML in the first place.
You must be careful in the forest
Broken glass and rusty nails
If you're to bring back something for us
I have bullets for sale...
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Shog9 wrote:
1) make it the default option, or one that must be turned off in preferences in order for it to stick.
This certainly is good option. Most of -at least my- responses are links to MSDN (so HTML is needed for clickety), OTOH people who use clickety are usualy smart enough to use this option and/or "modify" ...
Shog9 wrote:
2) replace all posters with new ones, better ones, ones that know to look for both the checkbox and the [edit] link when they screw up. We may need to institute a regimented breeding and training program to accomplish this, and needless to say it would be exceedingly long-term.
3) leave things as they are, recognizing malformed posts as one more indication of someone who really doesn't want a reply.
You think they will just die off?  It would be definitely good for overall level of CP, but I am affraid this is not going to happen.
David
Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy
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sorry all - don't know how I managed to miss this post - just posted a new thread on this very topic
Phil
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We could test the textbook example of natural selection.
I'm referring to the example where a group of people live on a mountain that has a low hanging branch. As the tall people continually hit their head on the branch and fall off the mountain and die, the only ones left to procreate are the short ones. According to natural selection, after a while, there will only be short people.
Well, if we refuse to answer posts from people who don't form their posts correctly...
Cheers,
Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group
"So look up ahead at times to come, despair is not for us. We have a world and more to see, while this remains behind." - James N. Rowe
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Just an enhancement that I and believe other people would find most useful as well is the ability to setup which categories you wish to Search, currently all the areas are enabled. For 99% of my development and search I'm only looking for articles within the "MFC/C++" category, but doing a search from either the site or the toolbar brings up a large number of articles that I just skip over as they are not written for the langauge I use. The Search always enables it to look in "MFC/C++", "C#", "ASP.NET", ".NET" and "VB.NET", In the end I tend to search, then un ticking all of the options I don't want and then searching again.
Can you change it so that the options are remembered, in a cookie or whatever, or in the "My Settings" page.
Many thanks,
John.
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Ditto to that -- I was just about to post the same suggestion. Wish I could figure out a way to get rid of all the .NET docs in Visual Studio..!
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So does he.[^]
When will I become a gold member? 
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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Membership status calculated as follows:
1-4 articles posted = Bronze. 5-14 articles = Silver. 15-24 articles = Gold. 25+ articles = Platinum. Each 500 messages posted adds one level, and if a user has posted a message then each year of membership adds 1 level. Bonus levels not valid for Gold members. Bronze is awarded at the beginning of the first 500 messages posted instead of the end.
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Yes, I know about that. But I couldn't quite understand the formula. Well, I guest I have to read that carefully again, to get it.
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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Okay - you've got 3 articles (+1) and 504 posts (another +1) -> means you are +2 == Silver.
Understood?
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i did some comparison with this.[^] So I think I will be gold next month, right?
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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Technically you should be Gold now - I forgot to add points for your 2+ years of membership.
You'll have to wait for the next status-update cycle I guess.
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What happened to the CPP? I remember that I saw a few thread posted across the forums where CPians were working on something. I just can't seem to find it anymore.
Wouldn't it be a good thing to have a section here on CP where those projects are listed with their status: {Runing, Stopped, Paused, etc..} and everything related to those projects?
I think that it's nice to see what all the CPians can do together besides solving each others problems.
I also got the blogging virus..[^]
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I believe they're all "stopped". I don't recall any of them getting very far.
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Inevitably things splintered as different people wanted different things and the projects went outside CP.
There was also a certain amount of friction as a result of this 
The tigress is here 
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I am currently getting HTTP 500 errors while trying to access CP. I tried accessing individual servers and web2 did not work. web1, web3, and web4 worked fine though. (that's all I tried, not sure how many servers you guys got)
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I was getting the same error most of the day, just a big ugly 500 server error message.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Now it is web8. Holy crap! 9 web servers?
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Yeah, web2 seems to have been napping for most of the day. Back up now though. And quite snappy...
You must be careful in the forest
Broken glass and rusty nails
If you're to bring back something for us
I have bullets for sale...
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I think Chris should just accept it and skip out web2 altogther. There is clearly something supernatural at work here. 
Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
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