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Yeah, I ignored. Also I remember the quote in your signature(Which I have added in my CP collection quotes).
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Rajesh,
Dealing with trolls is particularly hard. They don't operate on normal psychology, most want attention and do everything the do for their own amusement. By banning them, they get the attention and know they are getting to someone, just what they want. Counter logically they see this as power because they have manipulated someone into a reaction. The persistent ones will leave it a while, and set up a new account so just letting their "amusement stream" (read replies) to die is the most effective way of dealing with them.
See http://www.angelfire.com/space/usenet/[^] for a description of the troll mind, the best article I have read, with some decent links IIRC.
It looks like the account has been suspended: not because of the trolling I assume, but because he broke the T&Cs of the lounge in his final post there. The only thing you can do with these people is be patient.
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I missed his last post. A doozie, was it?
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Oh yes. It was all written in textspeak, started with an exhortation that we should all go and have sex with ourselves (misspelled *uk rather than *uck) and he let us all know that we are a bunch of unhappy nerds. Like nerd is an insult round here.
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Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Anyway, I'm not a nerd, I'm a geek.
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With this thread, I've made it look like I'm the one who's interested in what should be done with the troll. Seriously though, I've never been responding to, or entertaining the troll in anyways.
I created this thread because I was simply concerned that too many people are responding to the troll, and that created unwanted chaos in the forum. If the site administrators are to always leave what's to be done with the trolls to the public, that should be fine with me. I'm not responding to any of the trolls anyway.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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You misunderstand the purpose of my reply. I'm sure you've never responded to trolling, but dealing with them is horrifically complicated. Any kind of response just "feeds" them and the get the kick out of [what they see as] controlling people by getting them to respond.
If you ban them they register a new account, and start again, this would leave the admins banning accounts time and time again (Hence Chris's reference to whack-a-mole). We've a couple of very persistent ones. I really suggest you read the article in my last post, it explains why inaction is the correct course of action for trolls. They don'y think like normal people, so normal methods won't work.
We'd all like to see these people somehow permanently banned, but it can't work, they'll just come back and they'll want to as they are getting the reaction they want.
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Would it be possible to add a search by Date to the search page as one of the search criteria? Now and again I'd like to be able to see the search return the result sorted only by date so that I can see what the latest article is against my search.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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There is an order by "Relevancy / date" option in the advanced search... does that work for you? Also, it allows you to restrict search results to within a specified date range.
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Nope: still doesn't sort by date first which is what I'd like: I want to quickly see which is the newest article in the list.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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If you feel like banning a member, here is your chance. The Lounge has been blanketed with univotes for no good reason.
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You can't ban a member for waking up one morning and deciding to uni-vote everyone. However, I am all for a "punishment" system for repeat offenders going from a warning to suspension to complete banning of the account and associated IP address. Some of these uni-vote rampages are from senior members here and not from some tooly troll. 
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I know this is probably something to do with a missed browser setting on my end, but need to be sure.
When I use IE8 and paste a link into a Q&A answer, I get the link pasted as a link (with appropriate tags complete with href etc).
When I use IE9RC, the link gets pasted but the link tags just don't appear.
Any help, anyone?
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
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We're not touching IE9 issues until it's fully baked.
I'm not saying I don't trust Microsoft to make sudden, radical and breaking changes to the rendering or CSS models or anything. I never said that. Wouldn't dream of saying that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've noticed the same issues in Opera as well.
(Dont know about Firefox or Chrome though).
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Tolstoy.
When it comes to the clipboard every browser is extremely unhappy.
In Opera's case I assume it's never had a large enough share of users on CP to justify Maunder bashing his head against it's miseries.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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On the home page I see articles and tips/tricks needing approval:
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7043/regioncapture.png[^]
When I click an article, I go to it and see the button "Make Article Publicly Available."
When I click a tip/trick, I go to it and it's already published.
Steve Wellens
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I've just fixed (but not yet published) a fix that was hiding the moderation control for alternate tips.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Further to Hans suggestions;
1) xx Points for an article making it into a monthly survey
2) xx Points for each votes the article receives during said survey.
I don't know what xx would apply, but just think that when the articles make it to these survey they should be recognized, as they often receive more votes during the survey than they do as articles standing on their own.
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I too agree on these two points - both are measurable and should be considered and taken into consideration.
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In keeping with the spirit of point snagging, I offer these suggestions:
1. Add 5 points each time an article's download is downloaded.
2. Add 5 points (to usual points) for each article submitted that has an embedded link, on the theory that links = depth = goodness. Add 10 points if there is a CodeProject link.
3. Add 10 points each time an article is listed as "Featured Article" on front page.
4. Add 50 points each time an article is linked to from another site (this probably means the author will have to be proactive about reporting such links).
5. Add 1 point for each image that the article displays (images = pretty = goodness).
6. CP admins publish a "wish list" of topics they'd like to see articles written about. Add 50 points for each such written article (in addition to usual points).
7. Add 50 points each time an article is updated.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Add 1 point for each image that the article displays (images = pretty = goodness).
I'd say 10 points or more. Or maybe 1 point per 10,000 pixels. 
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I will take these on consideration.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I must have VB selected as preferences, and although VB doesn't have to be the default, some default must be set to see this bug. Type in some search criteria that, when you bypass the default preferences and choose All Roles, the search criteria will return more than one page of results. When a subsequent page number is clicked (or the next or previous page links are clicked), the default role will be restored. In my case, having VB preselected as the role, and searching for VPN under all roles, I have five pages of results but can not view any but the first page. When I select any page other than the first displayed result, the VB role is re-applied, reducing the results to none. When I reapply the All Roles rule, it returns me to page one of the results, and I'm stuck with no way to view any of the other results.
Hope that made sense. Feel free to contact me if you need more details.
-knockNrod
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
-Karla Kuban
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Found a work-around. Apparently, any role specified will be remembered, whereas the All Roles (which is blank), will not. So, select advanced search and choose all three Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. This should cover all articles, but does not, so this is an incomplete work-around, but four out of five (pages) ain't bad.
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
-Karla Kuban
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