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It was a feature, because we assumed that members of a certain rep level would not play silly buggers with others' comments and only edit / moderate those that required attention.
I guess we were wrong. I'll remove the access and go back to doing it manually. What a waste.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think it would be fine to leave it, but add who last modified the comment at the end e.g.
Some comment.............by Frank (Last modified by: Bob)
and if the originator has notification active, send them an email saying their comment was modified. (same as if you modify someones question in the QAs)
Dave
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Leave it in - being able to tidy up/format comments is useful. We should all remember "With great power comes great responsibility."
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Chris Maunder wrote: It was a feature, because we assumed that members of a certain rep level would not play silly buggers with others' comments and only edit / moderate those that required attention.
That would only work if such members were a really small minority - say 10 people, and you know each of these people well enough (how they behave in forums etc.). When the number of people with such editing rights gets bigger (say over 50) then it's safe to assume that there will be at least two or three of them who will act like retards. So in my opinion, it's a dangerous feature that you should either disable or restrict to a few hand picked members. [Or make it non-anonymous. So people can see that member-X edited comment-Y at a certain date-time]
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I have used comment feature a lot but have rarely (or I guess never!) edited someone else comment. I think we should keep it, just in case if needed.
As you thought of earlier, I too havn't noticed anyone playing around with someone else comments.
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Chris Maunder wrote: we assumed that members of a certain rep level would not play silly buggers
After 10 or more years with Code Project, you haven't learned your lesson yet? Some people just never learn. 
Seriously, though, with a group as large as ours, we need some system to regulate the rebels.
OH! Just thought of a feature. You should totally have a "Prison" link prominently displayed in the main menu. Anybody who keeps breaking the rules gets put into prison. They get added to the list of prisoners, where their username and crime are displayed for all to see, and they are unable to participate in the site. Repeat offenses get them tossed into prison for longer. And maybe prisoners get their own forum to bug eachother (you could call that page "Australia"). That's a half joke... it's probably not a good idea. Probably. 
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Yeah, probably not a good idea. At all. Hmph! 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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If someone clicks the email link at the bottom of your messages, then it will come through to your email with the subject prefix [CodeProject]
Possibly a spammer at work.
Dave
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daveauld wrote: If someone clicks the email link at the bottom of your messages, then it will come through to your email with the subject prefix [CodeProject]
I know that. It's not a reply to any of my posts. It's an invitation from Jeff Hadfield to do a survey, as shown by the full subject line I posted.
daveauld wrote:
Possibly a spammer at work.
If it's a spammer, he's REALLY good at forging mail headers, including routing inside CP. The IP addresses look legit.
Let's see what the hamsters say...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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It's legitimate, but we originally had the survey open for only a shirt time. I've opened it up again for those that missed out. The more the merrier! (reclick the link and you'll be able to help us out)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's my mistake -- I forgot to check the survey duration before I sent out a second round of survey invites last night. This is what I get for trying to squeeze out a bit more late-night productivity! Luckily Chris was up feeding the hamsters at the crack of dawn EST and took care of it. Sorry for the error!
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CP has been really slooooooooooooooooow this morning (say the last 3-4 hours), to the point where both my browsers and I gave up. [I would have been really cheesed if I hadn't saved a copy of a post that took 4 shots to send.  ] It's better now, but still not its usual zippy self. Other sites are OK (all over the planet) so I don't think it's my end.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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3 hours ago we had a database issue which has been resolved. I'm currently working to move a bunch of stuff to a different server so you may see minor weirdness, but most likely you won't notice a thing.
Is the slowness still happening? If it is then it's a separate issue because everything's running nice and fast according to all the current monitoring.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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All good now.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Using IE7:
It happens if it takes you too long to finish the reply. If I copy my reply, and then go back to the post I was replying to, and reply again by pasting my reply into the edit field, it works.
.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, it is a known feature, and has been reported before; it basically tells you to think and type faster, and use fewer and shorter sentences. I guess the disks are filling up.
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I've had it too on Firefox 3.6.9
As barmey as a sack of badgers
Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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Just recently or continually?
We have a very, very large background process running that ran that I suspect is the culprit.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Never got it before, and never saw it mentioned here, the preview can also be blank, probably under the same circumstances. I just recently got one after a long composing time.
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I myself have not faced this issue yet.
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Nope. It happens every day. It just happened to me about 10 minutes ago or so.
.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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Hi Chris, this just happened to me again about 2 minutes ago. I had spent about 15 minutes composing a reply. It definately seems to be something related to how long before starting the reply and submitting it.
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Found and fixed the problem.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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