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Apparently people can't ignore trolls.
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Funny how we try to control the hard to control (trolls) by attempting to control the hard to control (the urge of a the numerous non-trolls to feed trolls).
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Then we all drive you nuts with another pile of deletion requests... 
Cheers, Chris, I feel your predicament.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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How is it any different with spammers who keep reopening accounts after they're deleted?
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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I posted a likewise request in the lounge 
It's an OO world.
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This chap[^] - here[^] at least.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Is there any way to see members by Blogs & Tips/Tricks Count?
(Like Members by Article Count in Who's Who[^] page)
Is it possible to add that option there?
Thanks.
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Nice idea!
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This[^] user posting an advert[^] - deleted. One post, one day, one advert. Joy!
[edit]Why did I show the content? Why repeat the advert? The hamsters can read it from deleted records. Coffee - I need coffee...  - OriginalGriff[/edit]
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I think the or clause applies.
See here[^]
Cheers,
P
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Sacrilege, never mess with a man's newsletter!
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The links are fixed now.
Thanks for reporting.
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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Admin only messages. [+]
PageID: 1
Server: Web24
Behavioural analysis: lurker [recalculate: Apr 2]
OnLoad: Starting
Render mode: HACK_QUIRKS
(CM 1 May 2003) Can someone please fix this?
(GS 2 May 2003) You fix it
(CM 2 May 2003) No, you fix it
(GS 3 May 2003) No, YOU fix it
(CM 4 May 2003) You're fired
(GS 5 May 2003) fine
(CM 6 May 2003) FINE
Render (s): 0.02
Hide admin controls: true
Hide user controls: random [9%]
Reputation mode: inflated
Ignore rep events: 5% ignore rate
Force error on page load: 9%
Prioritise poor questions: true
Show user's articles on homepage: false
Current location:........found [nearest hamster: 1km]
Now that's some information! Found it at the bottom left corner and I think the menu wasn't rendered properly once. This happened when I opened the lounge. Is this a bug? Apologies if it's a repost.
Conversations are interesting in that. 
My Blog
*cough* My Achievements: *cough*
* Posted 25,000th message in GIT O_O
* Official supporter of the "thatraja's GIT Meet Sponsor Foundation"
What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
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I got the same thing, just slightly different verbiage. I think it is an April Fool's day prank.
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I believe so too as It changes on the different pages you check the admin messages. But a good one though.
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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Slacker007 wrote: I think it is an April Fool's day prank.
It indeed is. I was also the one who got fooled. April fool day wasn't in my mind at all when I logged in today. 
..Go Green..
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It seems that not all the answers in an article's forum are being handled correctly. I believe that all the answers in an article forum should be counted as 10 (authority); however, that is not happening, and some are being counted as 1 (debator).
Please take a look.
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Anything marked as an "Answer" is treated as an answer. Any post that replies directly to a question is automatically set as an answer (unless changed) anything else is treated as a discussion post unless the poster sets the message type otherwise.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Any post that replies directly to a question is automatically set as an answer
Wow. I don't know what to say. If you take a look at my XListCtrl or the TODOList forums, you will see that most answers have a white icon - not the answer icon. I don't ever recall changing any of those icons, either. Clearly, what you think is happening is not happening. The default icon in most cases is coming up as the white one, not the answer one, which means that all the point counts for all article forums are screwed up.
I will certainly pay attention to this now that I know of this glitch, but in the meantime, I hope you will re-classify all article direct replies as 'answers'.
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Take a look at Microsoft Push Notification in Windows Phone 7[^]. The comments are not questions and the direct replies are not answers.
If you can suggest a way to automatically differentiate between comments, questions, rebuttals, acknowledgements and answers I'm happy to experiment.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Here are the issues:
1. When I answer a question on one of my article forums, I click "Reply" and start typing. I hadn't even paid attention to which was the default icon, until I noticed that for one of my recent answers, I got 10, and for another, 1. If I didn't manually change the icon, according to you I should have gotten two 10's, but I didn't.
2. Just now, I hit Reply on a post on one of my articles, and guess what? It came up set to the "General" icon, not the "Answer" icon.
3. If I went to the Q&A forum and answered a question, it would be treated as an answer, no matter what I said. In fact, I would have no choice about this. And BTW, I have seen many answers in Q&A which express opinions, criticisms, and denunciations; all of them without exception get a 10.
4. The conclusion: you are treating answers in the article forums differently than answers in Q&A, which I thought you said you were going to stop doing.
My suggestion:
1. Run a one-time script to categorize all direct-reply answers in all article forums as "Answers", and recalc points.
2. Either: Immediately remove all icons from the message form on the article forums, to prevent this from ever happening again, even by accident; or: implement code that will categorize all direct-reply posts as answers, regardless of which icon is selected (since I have proven that defaulting to the Answer icon is not working correctly).
In any case, all non-direct replies would be treated like comments in Q&A.
These two steps would put answers on an article's forum on the same level as answers in Q&A.
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Your answer is preset to be "Answer" if you are replying to a post marked as a Question. We treat Answers consistently, but the issue here is that in Q&A and in the programming forums we know that all initial posts are questions (otherwise they are inappropriate and should be moved or deleted), but in Articles we cannot and should not make that assumption.
Your suggestions completely ignore the article and its messages that I pointed out to you. In fact look at any new article by a popular author - you'll see a ton of "my vote of 5" comments that should not be treated as a question or answer. Should members who post messages saying "Great article!" really get points for asking a question, and should the author, replying with "Thanks!" get points for answering a question? I don't think so.
The issue isn't about consistency with questions and answers. The issue is about correctly categorising posts in order to collect reputation points. Your first suggestion is to remove icons from posts. This would mean that we treat all messages in articles as just discussion posts and would mean there is no longer a way to flag posts as questions or answers. Giving up this because mis-categorised posts did not receive the points they could have potentially gained is not the right answer.
I'm open on suggestions on how better to help members categorise posts, but a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work here.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Would it be acceptable to you to re-categorize direct replies, if an author edited (some previous) reply and changed it from "General" to "Answer"? Of course, this would mean trusting authors not to re-categorize any replies to "My 5" posts.
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