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A sophisticated 21st century site should helpfully inform you if it thinks it's a possible re-post automatically.
Search has *always* been the "Achilles heel" of this site and I've always found it annoying how people whine about "re-post" when in fact it's difficult to find if anything has been posted before and the search results are not ordered correctly to facilitate searching for re-posts.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better.
- Poul Anderson
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Searching is ordered by relevancy weighted by rating.
How should search results be ordered in order to facilitate better searches for reposts?cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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| For the most common repost type, a link to foo, an automated check indicating that foo has been posted before at [link(s) to previous post(s)] and asking if you want to repost it would be a good start. I'd lean towards making this ajaxy instead of loading a confirm page when clicking post to keep it from being overly annoying. 3x12=36
2x12=24
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This would require an exact or very close match to be found.
What sort of threshold would be appropriate:
1. exact wording of a message only
2. If all words in posted message already posted then flag
3. Just show search results based on what was posted
In any of these cases it's a very expensive operation. Do we
1. Do it only for short messages
2. Do it only if a message is of type "news"
3. Suck it up and deal with it.
How do we deal with "me too" and LOL replies? They will cause a lot of false positives.cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I limited my suggestion to only looking at links for a reason. 
My unscientific guess is that about half the reposts are links to an external new story; and spotting those is much easier than trying to ID repeat jokes with cosmetic differences.3x12=36
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OK, so orders today are 1 serving of link scraping and auto-searching served with a side of date-sorted search results.
Rye, wholewheat or white?cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Rye, wholewheat or white?
If you can keep the big furry maggots out I'd prefer quadrotriticale.  3x12=36
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Dan Neely wrote: quadrotriticale
Of course. Do you mean quadrotriticale with butter? with mayo? or with vegamite?
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My problem with the current search is that it often throws up much older results before much more recent results, if the final results were orderable by date that would make all the difference though I think an automated re-post check would be much finer.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better.
- Poul Anderson
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I just noticed that the tags of the questions you've posted answers to are different on the 'Your questions and answers' page.
Take a look at my page, for example:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=4166044[^]
Look at the post named "how to learn html web design". It is tagged as 'C', but when you open the question, it is tagged as HTML and Web-Development.![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) Kristian Sixhoej
"You can always become better." - Tiger Woods
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| Thanks - added to the bug list. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The points shown on the profile page are different (lower) from what's shown in the graph. I know this has already been reported, but since you guys just updated the site, I didn't know if you'd taken a stab at a fix yet..45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Yep - I just replied to Sandeep about this.
The rep history population script I ran over the weekend was only meant to be run once. We've since run it 6 times and it's at the point where we'll make it so it can be run without screwing with you guys, and can be run in two parts (complete restore, or just a sync of the pre-calculated stuff).cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Mine is the same, graph not matching the tab.  -Bryan
My latest programming adventure was coding the multimedia features for the Rip Ride Rockit coaster at Universal Studios Florida. I love my job.
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It looks like your floats are set incorrectly. The question's content div is posted about the same distance from the top of the pane as the vote tally div is tall..45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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OK, found the issue while viewing in IE6 and IE7.
Will fix.cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I keep forgetting to mention the browser I'm using. In this particular case, it's IE7...
Maybe what the site needs is a bug reporting page (among all the oher thousands of things you guys have to do) that won't let you submit the bug until you specify the browser you're using. .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I've had a fiddle with it. Let me know if this is better.
(and I enjoy guessing)cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That appears to have fixed it..45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Yesterday I had over 510 Organizzer points. Today, I'm at 425. Is the refresh still in progress?.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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| Maybe you became more disorganised? ------------------------------------
I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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| I'll get a fix organised. cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I didn't know if it was an error or just a reconsideration of the way points are calculated..45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Worked it out:
Previously we were awarding points for downvoting. This has been removed and we're now only awarding for upvoting.
The rationale here is two-fold:
1. We want to encourage members to upvote the good stuff. Downvoting helps, too, but we'd rather encourage an upcote for good, and a helpful comment if bad.
2. If someone is going to game the system then the lesser evil is to have spurious upvotes rather than downvotes. No one likes to see an unwarranted downvote on their work, so let's not reward it.cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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0) What constitutes up-voting? Voting 3 or higher?
1) It seems to me that organization is organization, despite what is actually done.
2) Maybe it would be more appropriate to award 2 points for up-voting and 1 for down-voting. Down-voting something is sometimes a necessary action to ensure that the forums are pretty much self-cleaning. With the current crop of articles, tips, and messages, it's going to take most people forever to get even silver in organization points if they only get them for up-voting, much less gold or - dare I say i - platinum.
3) Alternative suggestion - Reinstate the 1 point award for voting, but change the cap so that a user can only get, say 20 down vote points per day, but can get 30 up-vote points per day..45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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