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I agree. In a way, it would open up Pandorra's box. We may then need also to step-up Community Policing and more vigilant moderation practices to maintain the forums clean and beautiful.
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This link seems to be extremely slow. http://www.codeproject.com/info/about.asp[^]
Timespan to load: 1 minute to 1 minute 25 seconds.
I am browsing this from India (VSNL Broadband and Airtel Broadband same results).
But I don't think there is any issue with my Internet pipe since messageboards, articles and other URLs in CP are quite fast. I think, CP Team should address this page on a priority basis since it contains valuable contact information like Media Kit, Webmaster contact, Affiliations etc.
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This has been mentioned before and, as stated before, has been fixed in the upcoming version
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Could a "Spoiler" option be added to the "Message Type" menu? And could the message inside a "Spoiler" post have to be highlighted to be read, like on gaming forums? This would ensure that people don't accidentally read spoiler posts.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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This, I think, would be like Poster-driven censorship to a post. Wouldn't that be the case?
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Instead of voting people out of the Lounge, have you considered reversing it? - People could post & vote in the Lounge only if they had been voted in?
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To simplify your query are you visualizing something like this?
1) You post good threads in normal messageboards. Every vote you get CREDITs to your Vote Bank.
2) Now after accumulating certain credits, you can get that much of POSTs to submit or VOTEs to cast in special messageboards like Lounge and Soapbox?
This should be roughly similar to Yahoo Answers system. Isn't it?
Is my understanding correct?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
Is my understanding correct?
No.
My post was clear enough. I'm not going to try to second-guess Chris on how he implements it. Everyone is talking about how to get the idiots out of the Lounge. I'm suggesting something very basic, very simple: don't let them in to begin with.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Everyone is talking about how to get the idiots out of the Lounge
I think some of them are creeping into the suggestions board!
<edit>Not aimed at you Hans!
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
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Hans Dietrich wrote: People could post & vote in the Lounge only if they had been voted in?
One problem there: how should new members be allowed to post replies or start new threads? Who could vote them in if nobody knows them?
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If (member is less than a month old OR member has made less than 25 posts)
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Pre-populate member's lounge and SB* post body with "Do not post programming questions here";
}To the blithering idiots who miss the red bold text, this should surely be visible. 
[edit] * Soapbox [/edit]
-- modified at 10:58 Thursday 19th July, 2007
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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Lounge post body, and Subtle Bugs post body (aka the edit box labeled "Text:") for each of them.
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You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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You may change you name to emulate somebody more popular;P but fools change hide behind a name, take a chainsaw and do something more useful with your life.
P Think of the environment; please don't print this message unless you really need to.
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Hey norm,
I appreciate your suggestions. If you fondly trace back on the Suggestions, I had asked on 'Coloring' trick of nick and you had kindly guided me on that. I have been playing around with it for a while.
I observed little issues with Coloring Tricks:
1) With more HTML tags, even though the DISPLAY NAME textbox in Update Settings is able to accomodate them, the actual display gets truncated.
2) I would rather liked to be addressed as 'Deepak' but since in the Indian way, with the surname expanded before, it often gets into dragnet of ambiguity leading to the name being addressed as 'Vasudevan'. I just thought I would again update the nick emphasizing the addressable name.
Also, I follow that you have also updated a similar comment in 'Todolist' homepage. I have also responded to it. The permalink is here: http://www.codeproject.com/tools/todolist2.asp?msg=2138551#xx2138551xx[^]
I think, if a CP Admin could move our discussion threads over there to either this thread or to the previous query on 'Coloring Trick'.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Pre-populate member's lounge and SB post body with "Do not post programming questions here";
I think it was Colin who pointed out when this was suggested a few months ago that it would lead to all kinds of "meriment" in the Lounge when you see something like this in a post:
Do not post programming questions here.
how to create array in C#
In other words, you'd still get programming questions only they'd have the above warning included.
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You have a very good memory! 
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Leslie summed up the issue succinctly
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I thought it was a brilliant idea, but I guess the majority see it differently. Oh well. [Bambi eyes]At least you could give it a try?[/Bambi eyes]
Seriously, making this change will not affect the regulars (we've all made more than 10 posts and been here for a long time). If the number of programming questions in the Lounge continues to swell, you might as well remove it. If the flood *does* subside...
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Seriously, making this change will not affect the regulars
Please reread Leslie's reply. It will affect the regulars.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: It will affect the regulars.
What I meant was: Regulars like Colin or CG will not see it because they have been around longer.
You (and Leslie) are saying instead of saying "How do I do X?" the regulars will be seeing "Do not post programming questions here. How do I do X?". How is it any different?
To be very frank, I think this is a very good idea. Of course, out here you are the Boss and if you don't { like it | think it will improve things } you don't have to. I would still urge a trial though.
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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Chris Maunder wrote: It will affect the regulars.
How so, Chris?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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You kinda side stepped the other point about extremely new members not being able to post in the lounge, I.E. they should be around for a day at least first because it would nip in the bud most of the people who sign up just to ask a programming question and then ask it in the lounge by mistake. I know this has been suggested before I just can't remember why you rejected it the last time. 
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I thought that the BLINK[^] tag was condemed to the depths of CPs hamster's bowels? Is the filtering code skipping peoples signatures?
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That's a tough one. Do I remove it or chalk it up to "Browser Issue"
Why oh why does the gecko engine still render this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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