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Thanks chris, Its working now
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Looks like we can now report spammers on their member page.
Fixign now. | But who's fixing the fixign? |
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Replying to a French question http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/184870/je-voudrais-savoir-comment-afficher-des-images-en-.aspx#answer1[^] I got Google to translate my English to French. Preview was fine, but in the posted answer all accented characters were replaced with rubbish. I edited the question, and copy-and-pasted the accented material, then hand replaced the accented characters with non-accented equivalents. When I posted this, the accented characters were fine!
I left the modified version so it couldn't revert back to rubbish!
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 have suffered this problem recently too. It seems to be all characters outside the ASCII 127 (for example n-dashes also die), although strangely I think ÷ survived.
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See this member's most recent messages. On the first page, I see "[1 2 3 4 ]". If I click "Next", I see "[1 2 ]". Seems pages 3 and 4 disappeared. There should probably not have been a page 3 and 4 in the first place, as this member has only posted 67 messages and I think there are 50 messages listed per page.
My best guess is that this member deleted a bunch of their messages (their reputation graph shows a sudden drop in points, so a bunch of deleted messages could explain that) and some of the code is looking at all messages posted while the other bit of code is looking at all messages posted minus those deleted. Or maybe one bit of code is assumging 20 messages per page, and the rest is assuming 50 messages per page.
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Thanks - on the bug list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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At least in my case. No matter what Option I choose, nothing happens. If I as for an email, no email appears. If I choose the other option, nothing happens. Since this in no way interferes with my use of the site, this isn't horribly critical, but it is annoying as hell. Could someone fix this?
--hsm
hsmyers@gmail.com
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Have you checked your spam filters? Added us to your whitelist?
The emails are being sent - they just aren't able to reach you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Few minutes back I voted for below article using Footer-Vote-Textbox(Without using New Message) at bottom of the article. In that textbox I have entered I'm not a C++ developer....... clicked Vote button. Then refreshed the page to see my message. But the Message displayed as I'm not a C developer(I agree too this  )....... ++ gone from the message.
I suspect it may ignores some other special characters too.
My vote of 5[^] (BTW I have edited that message again.)
Reproduced the issue again in your article.
My vote of 5[^]
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thatraja wrote: But the Message displayed as I'm not a C developer(I agree too this )
If you don't know 'C', how can you say you don't know 'C++'!!! 
Just trying to reproduce the C++ issue.
Regards - Kunal Chowdhury | Microsoft MVP (Silverlight) | CodeProject MVP | Software Engineer
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Kunal_Chowdhury wrote: If you don't know 'C', how can you say you don't know 'C++'!!!
Who said that? Still I can write "Hello world" type programs in C/C++
I know C/C++(both were subjects in my diploma) & I'm not a C/C++ developer. Working in .NET.
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Just kicked you a bit to test the issue here. 
Regards - Kunal Chowdhury | Microsoft MVP (Silverlight) | CodeProject MVP | Software Engineer
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Hey Chris,
Right now, when you vote an answer up, it gives 5, 10, 20, or 40 points to the member who made the post based on your status. That part is good.
But correspondingly, the person doing the voting also needs to be similarly rewarded.
Right now it's always 1 point for voting up a post. This needs to be 1,2,4, and 8 based on the member's status.
This will encourage more folks to vote on answers. And that will only improve the QA forum because regular visitors will be able to pick out the best answers more visibly (this is one thing where StackOverflow truly excels at).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: This needs to be 1,2,4, and 8 based on the member's status.
Which member? the upvoter, or the receiver?
I think I disagree either way.
1. the upvoter? where will it all end, if, once one is silver/gold/platinum, every action is rewarded 2/4/8 times as much. This is just creating an exponential curve.
2. the receiver? I don't want to get extra points when I agree, admire, whatever something said by one of the heavy-lifters. My effort, and its value to the community, remains the same.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: Which member? the upvoter, or the receiver?
Uhm, the receiver already gets weighted points (5, 10, 20 or 40). The voter always gets non-weighted points (1 point).
Luc Pattyn wrote: 1. the upvoter? where will it all end, if, once one is silver/gold/platinum,
every action is rewarded 2/4/8 times as much. This is just creating an
exponential curve.
No exponential curve here. The receiver already gets more points when a higher status member votes his answer up. So correspondigly the voter should also get higher points.
Luc Pattyn wrote: 2. the receiver? I don't want to get extra points when I agree, admire, whatever
something said by one of the heavy-lifters. My effort, and its value to the
community, remains the same.
Huh? It is already this way. If a Platinum guy votes an answer up you get 8 times the score that a Bronze guy will get you.
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I think the receiver should get the weighted points and the voter should receive a constant value (e.g., 1). This is how it is currently done.
My reasoning is that you cannot control who votes on your post, so the weighting will not cause exponential growth as a member gains reputation. However, were a member to get more points for voting, this would cause exponential growth (up to a point) as their reputation grows. Essentially, they'd be getting a lot more points for doing the same stuff.
I'm thinking reputation should be linear, so you can easily see that a member with 1000 points has contributed 100x as much as a member with 10 points (rather than, say, 10x as much).
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In that case, then the points for voting an answer up should be increased to 5 per vote. 1 is too low!
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I'll agree to raising the number of points given for casting a vote; but I'm strongly against scaling the number of a voter receives based on his/her status. It would just be a case of the rich getting richer. Gold/platinum members reached their status by a large level of activity on the site. We don't need an additional multiplier to our reputation accumulation.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Ok, that makes sense.
The whole point in my asking the points to be raised is to encourage voting (which very few people do now).
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It seems that way sometimes, I wonder how many gold/platinum organizers there are vs other rep types.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Sorry for the late reaction:
Dan Neely wrote: I wonder how many gold/platinum organizers there are vs other rep types.
CP Vanity provides some insight. When looking over the top 5 article count, message count, and total rep point pages in Who's Who, it finds:
Debator; 152 platinum + 12 gold
Author: 93 platinum + 47 gold
Participant: 83 platinum + 67 gold
Authority: 58 platinum + 18 gold
Organizer: 38 platinum + 15 gold
Editor: 11 platinum + 4 gold
Enquirer: 1 platinum + 1 gold
So Organizer looks comparable to Authority, and I think that is good.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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At 1/3rd smaller I think calling it comparable is a bit of a stretch; but it's better than I thought it would be.
Enquirer OTOH definitely needs adjusted to be easier to earn. Maybe editor too, although IIRC until fairly recently you could only edit your own articles/messages/etc; with QA it should be much easier to accumulate points there than it used to be, so maybe we should just give it more time.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Keep in mind CP does not really offer a way to get the top N performers in each and every specific rep category. By looking at article count, message count, and total rep there are bound to be a lot of the experts and few of the enquiring members in my list. If someone asks 10,000 questions without ever publishing an article or posting many messages, he would not be visible to CP Vanity and yet be the #1 enquirer, with platinum, and not part of the counts I gave earlier.
The color thresholds are different for different categories, and I think they are quite good.
I see two major problems in the rep system:
1. inflation: right now reputation is cumulative without degradation, so the number of platinums and golds will increase without bounds over the years. IMO one should do something about that, maybe one of these:
- drop old actions (calculate rep based on the most recent time span, say 3 years);
- apply a decaying factor to every rep item (say a CP-activity half-life time);
- probably easiest: raise the color thresholds regularly.
2. total rep is being abused: e.g. it is shown in the Q&A system (and in the new forum pop-ups) as the only indication of rep, so answer from a 100K driveler may seem a lot more trustworthy than one by a 10K authority person, where the former may be a long-time soapbox figure, the latter an expert who just joined CP.
Both issues could be addressed, maybe not completely fixed but certainly improved.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
modified on Friday, April 22, 2011 9:27 AM
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If you raise the rep thresholds regularly then you create an old-boys network that allows no newcomers. I also don't think authors are going to appreciate having their articles, one day, suddenly no longer count. The most popular article on the site, dan.g's Todo list, would be an early candidate for having it's points wiped, which I don't think anyone would consider fair.
The bigger point, though: why does it matter if we have more and more top-level members? In fact, I want more high level members. I want more members being able to police the site, to report inappropriate material, to have edit rights, to be able to moderate. This is a Good Thing.
As to the total rep being abused, I can think of only a few specific cases of someone whom I could imagine you labelling a "100K driveler". Does the regularity of this occurrence outweigh the respect the current system gives to the top authors (for instance)? I'm guessing, though, that what might suit you better is simply to show points for technical, not social, skills. We don't have a label for a combined value of Author and Authority, and my fear is showing a number that we aren't presenting in the member profiles would be confusing.
Is the issue truly an issue?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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