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Vitaly Tomilov wrote: for instance, if any of the social networks were using the same down-voting idea
- they would loose their customers very quickly
Who cares about social networks? CP is a technical forum, and the lounge/soapbox are simply there to kick back and relax. If you post rubbish just to try to appear deep, you will get downvoted faster than a republican at a democrat conference. You have to earn the right to post crap; crap is earned, not given.
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You have to earn the right to post crap; crap is earned, not given.
That doesn't sound right...
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So you're in the "as much crap as you like" category then. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I'm surprised it's taken you this long to notice.
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It's not that I hadn't noticed, but I thought it was just some NE problem you had; like Newcastle Brown Ale.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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It's having to deal with pseudo-Hungarians; it drives a person insane.
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Try dealing with the real thing. They're librarian poo mad the lot of them!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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A 5 just for getting a Pratchett reference in there. 
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Some points are waited to the voter's reputation, some are limited per day.
It is a complex system, kind of explained here[^]
Also there is often caching so that scores which show up in your rep don't show in the forums until some time later.
The best thing is to not watch your reputation, that way madness lies.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Thank you! You're right, ignorance is bliss, sometimes 
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Must resist the urge not to make the obvious joke....
Done it. Phew, that's better, the urge passed. Don't give us opportunities like this in the future though.
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I forgot to tell you earlier...don't worry about the points. Your membership and participation in the site should be genuine and not for the "points". It's a hell of a lot more fun this way.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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...results in appearance of the same HTML-fix form, like it would when doing this during article editing, except the form appears truncated by about 80%, one can only see small part of the form on the right, can't even see the options to choose from.
My browser: FF 13.0.1
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Thanks for the report. Fixed in next deploy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My Tip is
Using AJAX asynchronously with progress bar and status [Tip/Trick]
Using AJAX asynchronously with progress bar and status[^]
hear is a problem in this tip updation with my account
the information shows below
Article Submission Wizard Beta
Unfortunately you do not have permission to edit this article.
i had upload this tip without wizard
please suggest how to update
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Can you try again, please
Sincerely,
Elina Blank
Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it! 
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I suggest that a vote on an article should be considered if:
- The account used to vote is at least 2 or 3 months old
- The account used to vote was involved in other activities (like voting on other articles, posting messages, downloading code, etc.,)
- If the vote is a 5, make it mandatory for the voter to comment on the article (and this comment cannot be deleted) so that everyone can see who has voted a 5.
- Votes that don't meet these criteria can be kept as a "dormant" until the account that voted meets the required eligibility criteria.
I am just proposing an idea so that voting is not misused by people to add undue advantage to their own articles. The points I mentioned may not be perfect, and may be others can give some insight into this.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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This would certainly stop certain people posting articles and then getting all their friends to open CP accounts and give them 5s. I was sure it used to be the rule that only members with a reputation score above a certain level could vote on new articles; these days it seems to be open to everyone.
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Voting has always been open to everyone, as it should be.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I disagree.
1. Many, many members come here for a single piece of code after discovering us through searches. They download the code, they use it, and then...they can't say they like it, or can't post a vote warning others.
On the other hand I've seen sock puppet accounts years old.
2. Again, newcomers then have to go through hoops to comment on the one piece of interaction they care about. Not very friendly or welcoming
3. I'm not sure what you're hoping to achieve here. Many, MANY sock puppet votes include a comment of "Great!", and "This helped me, my company, my cat, and cured my goldfish of cancer. You're the best!!111!!"
4. Lots of legitimate votes would sit as dormant. What a waste of the community's feedback.
Sorry, no.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This message to Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. is in response to his comments on this Lounge thread:[^]:
Ennis wrote:"Because there is too much advertising. I also stopped listening to the radio for the same reason. Advertising has got to stop; there is just too much of it. I am at the point now where I immediately back out of web pages that post a full screen ad that require me to close the ad to view the content. In fact, the primary reason I refuse to pay for services is advertising as well. I am not going to pay for a service and be presented with ads." I experience a real cognitive dissonance between the "no-ad" attitude expressed above, and the fact that Ennis has a custom signature using super-large, bolded, type, including color, that directly promotes his own personal programming services. I assume he's achieved jumbo-font-size and color by use of HTML tags in his custom signature.
I consider such an entry very appropriate for the profile page, even though I'd still find the huge font-size distracting.
I think it is not within the "community spirit" of CP to advertise so blatantly in a signature included in every post.
And, I suggest eliminating the use of custom tags in signatures (if that's what's going on here).
To my eyes, this signature is as visually annoying as ALL-CAPS: particularly when it takes up more vertical space in the message than the thread-related on-topic comments take
I am hoping Ennis will not take this suggestion as a personal attack, or an indication of any negative intention towards him on my part.
And, of course, I have sent him a link to this message, so he can know exactly what I said about his signature.
best, Bill
"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Andre Malraux
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His signature actually looks smaller than the message text to me. However, when I modify my browser settings so that my font is set to "largest" rather than "medium", then his signature does appear larger than the message text.
I suspect this is because he used a font tag that is proportional to the user's setting whereas Code Project uses CSS that sets fonts to a constant size regardless of the user's setting.
As far as the color, that's just from the anchor tags (colored using either the browser's default color or from Code Project's CSS).
His signature is much like mine, actually. Except that I haven't reduced the size of the font in mine.
By the way, I am not for removing HTML from signatures. If Ennis wants to advertise his services in a discreet manner (his signature), then all the better I say. The name he makes for himself here is public and would reflect on his business poorly if he were out of line. You might think of his "advertising" as incentive to be a positively contributing member of the community.
Though, now that you mention it, it would be neat if Code Project had a setting to hide signatures from other members.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: His signature is much like mine, actually.
Hi AspDotNetDiv,
I'm a little confused by this: your signature appears to me to be one line of regular text in a regular size font-size:
"Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!"
I can't compare that with Ennis' at all (see screen-shot in next message ... to Chris ... on this thread, please).
best, Bill
"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Andre Malraux
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As I suspected, it is a font size issue. See this screenshot of what I see: http://i.imgur.com/zsfQb.png. Try reducing your browser's font/text size. It appears Ennis was actually trying to reduce the size of his signature, but it happened to backfire for you because of your browser's text size settings.
And I compared his to mine, because the only thing he does that I do not do is use a font tag to reduce the size of his signature. We both use anchor tags (though he uses them sparingly, whereas I have wrapped my entire signature in an anchor tag).
All a matter of perspective.
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We've always allowed members to promote themselves discreetly. They key point is discreetly, but as has been mentioned, fonts and browser settings may cause weirdness.
I'm certainly not seeing anything that sets of any alarms.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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