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Please have a look to my other thread, just above this one (typos).
Best regards,
Jaime.
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I've psotted that thread earlier already, maybe it will be fixed in the next release, which I expect later today. But there are no guarantees!
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Hi, from time to time users repost their question when they are not satisfied with the answers. If you have this deja-vu effect and click on a users name, it's easy to spot reposts. What is the (community) recommended way to handle it?
I marked subjects with [Repost] and linked to the old one, someone else preferred to delete the question?
Thanks
/M
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I delete them.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"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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"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'd add a comment to the question directing the user to the original post and then delete the question.
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Any suggestion for the members without license to kill?
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You can add a comment as well and/or down-vote and/or flag.
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Please can I have my own forum/room totally devoted to me, where the same group of people can come to read my views/have general discussions about me/and ridicule and generally bully me. Then, if for some reason I dont post for two or three days, the aforementioned members can start 'baiting' threads specifically designed to entice me into posting again so the whole process can start all over again and make me feel even more special about myself, because all these supposedly intelligent members appear to have a hole in their lives, when they don't have interaction with me.
I only ask as CaptainSeeSharp has this so why can't I?
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You already have one. Look at the bottom of your profile page.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"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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"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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That was my first idea when I read the message; however I don't see his blog at all. Does it need enabling? Is there a minimal something required rep-wise??
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My point was that the backroom just seems to be a CSS baiting/bullying room and if he doesn't post for a few days, someone will start a thread along the lines of CSS is a so-and-so, or my personal favourite is, when he hasn't posted for awhile someone will say CSS would say 'this', its like they can't live without him.
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If you're reporting the fact that the whole thing is totally lame, then yes, we agree.
However, if the trollers and trollees need their fix then I'd rather them do it there than in the Lounge.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It was BryanWilkins[^] who came up with this idea, but since he hasn't raised it here, I thought I would.
When you view an article, at the top of the screen is the "Quick Answers" button, as normal. It might be an idea to change this: We seem to be getting a lot of QA questions on articles and it would appear that newbies are reading an article (hallelujah!) and asking a question about it with the QA button, instead of the "New Message" button at the bottom. Obviously, this just clogs up QA and doesn't get the question to the article author unless someone is really lucky.
Perhaps we either need the QA button removed in articles, or a pop-up like "Are you sure you want a Quick Answer? Using the New Message will get you a quicker answer from the article author."
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Are you sure you want a Quick Answer? Using the New Message will get you a quicker answer from the article author."
I want a slow answer, I'm not familiar with this subject at all. 
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I want a slow answer you to write my app for me, I'm not familiar with this subject at all.
FTFY!
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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I think a popup message would be appropriate. New visitors are sometimes not aware there is such a thing as an article forum.
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How about, when they hover over the Quick Answers link, we have an extra prominent link "Ask a question about this article" that redirects to the message posting page
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Not a bad idea, if it is the first in the list that could work.
Did you know:
That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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Guy asks how to convert .doc to .txt. He gets several answers. He posts his own answer, "Thanks. I'll try them." His answer is voted 1. Why? The reason given is "fake answer".
A guy showing common courtesy is voted 1? WTF? He should be voted 10! How many times have you guys been thanked for an answer in QA? I have, ONCE.
This numerical voting system is anti-community spirit. It's fun to shoot fish in a barrel, but this is too much. Let's dump it and move forward.
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Most likely he was down-voted by those repliers who were pissed off at him for not marking their posts as the answer 
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Nish, I 5ed that; you did not really mean it, however, I think it is not too far from the truth.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: How many times have you guys been thanked for an answer in QA?
In forums, all the time. Which I often answer with a "you're welcome".
In Q&A (which I used regularly during a period of 4 weeks, early this year), hardly ever. Not sure what that tells me. Are Q&A enquirers less polite? I see no reason to think so. Is Q&A less courtesy-stimulating? Yes, it is; I see the structure with limited hierarchy (question, comment, answer, comment), not stimulating discussion, and the author names more hidden, making everything rather impersonal. There is no way to express gratitude, "thank you" does not fit the comment format, comments in my view are expected from a third party.
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I see a lot of comments thanking the answerer, Luc.
However, I agree the design needs adjusting.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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We're adding voting to comments (simply good/bad - sorry Luc) so that rubbish like this can be filtered. Votes to answers will be tied to comments, and if the comment is inappropriate it, and its associated vote, get removed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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