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The timestamps would indicate that it was approved twenty minutes before you posted this...
When something goes to moderation, it requires "an appropriate human" to look at it and make a decision. If none are available, then it sits there and waits. And there are times when the site is slow because all the necessary volunteers are asleep, or busy working for a living.
Please have a little patience, we do get to these as fast as we can - but since we aren't paid to provide this service some other things do tend to take priority. Paying the rent. Affording food. Sleep. Having a life. That kind of thing... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Approved.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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OriginalGriff wrote: Having a life.
Plzz sir, send me one. Its urgent. 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Its urgent.
Nonsense! You've got decades left in you!
I'm uploading a copy of mine for you, but it's going to take a while: reality is quite high resolution, and I don't know any compression techniques that work on it yet...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Has something gone wrong with the Weekly Newsletter? I don't seem to have received one since April.
The Daily News and Web Dev newsletters are still coming through OK.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The weekly is still going out strong. Did you miss it again this week?
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Chris Maunder
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Correct: it didn't turn up this week. I sent an email to the webmaster address - apparently, I'm not the only person experiencing the problem.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Found the issue and fixed.
That was a subtle one. The best kind, eh?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Excellent news! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Dear Sir;
With regarding to the thread view button, the count doesn't appear correct because the root message is counted with the replies. Either you change the text to "View the 2 messages in this thread" or "View the 1 replay to this message", but not
View the 2 replies to this message
Help people,so poeple can help you.
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This was a database issue which has since been fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I created this account, because I thought it would be different from the StackExchange. I am familiar with the StackExchange network of sites, but I have never been on the programming sector. The only reason I've gained a high rep on some SE sites is that I actually know or do my own research in academic literature. As a beginner, I didn't feel qualified for participating on the Stack Overflow site, because I might lose a lot of points, so much that I would lose all privileges or something, or ask a non-specific, non-expert-level question. I am very good at mining for relevant information, so that's how I passed as an "expert" and got upvotes.
On this site, I was surprised that the set-up was so similar to the StackExchange. It has a preview below the submission form box. It has upvotes and downvotes, and reputation points based on those votes. I asked my first question on this site, and when I returned, I noticed that my question was rated 1/5.
I think CodeProject is for people who code, as it says in the subtitle of the logo, not for people who are absolute beginners.
I would like to know the expectations of the questions and answers that will get upvotes or 5 stars. Some kind of guideline would be helpful. 
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You just have to accept that this is the internet and trolls abound, and often downvote without explanation. Does it hurt you in any way? Answer: no.
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Um... thanks for the reply.
Your profile says you are a retired software support engineer. And then it says you want to be a "real programmer". Um... what does a software support engineer do?
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I've given you a 5 on your comments and your question, so that should have given you a bit of a boost. To me, your question is perfectly fine. people have also answered you, so clearly a few people thought your question good enough to respond to. If you found an answer to be helpful, up-vote that answer, and comment back to the OP that you appreciated their help and that you have voted them a 5. This builds up goodwill and improves the general ambience of this website (assuming more people did this). Initially, the trolls and insecure idiots will slant it in their favor, but once you are active here for a reasonable period of time, you will find that your score goes up. At the end of the day it's just an online score, but if it motivates you, good for you. And nope, this site is nowhere near as bad as SO is - and never will be, unless the owners change 
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Member KL wrote: what does a software support engineer do?
As little as he can get away with. 
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I just looked at your question and up-voted it. The question is quite reasonable.
My only thought about the downvote(s) is that some people are overly pedantic about the meaning of words even in cases where the intent is pretty clear. In your case the use of "infinitely" could have been their trigger. I think a word that may have softened this could be "arbitrarily".
...just a thought...
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Sometimes an old question get spammed with a fake new answer.
Problem the question is reported as edited with a time that match the time that match the creation of new answer.
In the case bellow, the question report an edition without V2.
Convert c to vb6 code!!!!!![^]
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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No idea if this has been suggested before (I imagine I'm not the first to think of it), but it would be nice to be able to undo/cancel a vote you have made on a forum post. There are two situations where I feel this is necessary.
The first is simply that you accidentally clicked the upvote button and wish to undo it.
The second is if a message you previously upvoted has been edited, and you no longer wish to support the new message.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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... and the same sometimes goes for downvotes.
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Done.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Why is this in the "Bugs & Suggs" forum? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Because clippy was a bug?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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