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CP wrote: If you do this accidentally or wake up the next morning in an existential panic please contact us using the email address you use to sign in and we can undo this. You have 28 days to change your mind, during which time your acount will be inactive.
It was no accident, and not in existential panic either. Just stopping with logging in was not an option, I tried that a few months. It seemed a last resort.
I was turning the lounge into a soapbox, without adding much value. I need to exit for a prolonged time at the least. Keep the articles and the messages; including the ones where I went too far and made a fool of myself; they all done under my own name. But this cannot go on; it is reflecting bad on CodeProject. Doesn't matter who is wrong or right either; it doesn't belong on CodeProject.
I was a bit surprised by the reactions; they were heftier then I expected. So, I changed my mind; I'm suggesting an alternative - reinstate the account, with a ban for half a year of posting. I cannot participate in this state of mind. I'll answer to the rest of that thread later today.
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Why not just reinstate, and don't post unless you want to? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you will.
I don't know about you but knowing I can't do something does make me want to do it more, not less! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Just because you can do something doesn't mean you will.
He is being honest enough to say that he already tried and couldn't step back voluntarily, so a temporary "ban" is the best solution to avoid deleting the account.
I find it to be a good "we meet in the middle" compromise.
M.D.V. 
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Nelek wrote: so a temporary "ban" is the best solution to avoid deleting the account
I wonder if they have such a feature here, not allowing posting for certain period on time?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: I wonder if they have such a feature here, not allowing posting for certain period on time?
Just change his password so he cannot login. He can still see the majority of content.
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True, I was curious as to whether that had an automated means to do that, as opposed to a post-it note on the side of a monitor. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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In which way is implemented, I don't know, but there have been several users that have the privilege to get such a temporary ban due to going too far even for the soapbox (one of the main reasons of closing that forum)
M.D.V.
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Based on a few posts that I've read, I believe that some accounts have been temporarily suspended and that the capability exists.
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Horizontal scroll brings the back into view.
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We are in the process of rewriting the forums so these kinds of issues should be fixed (and a fresh batch of new issues added, of course!)
The general layout of these forums is from 2001. It's crazy. I was thinking about it this morning and how we used to use 1x1 pixels to provide spacing and shaping, and how rounded corners used to be really painful and ugly[^]. Flexbox is now available everywhere it matters and so it's past time we move on too.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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... which brings up an interesting (tmm) funny programming point ... when does fair use kick in when copying and pasting a screen image in a forum like this one ... with regards to another devs' code?
Well, it's a haha to me anyway.
(no disrespect to RD intended)
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I would think standard "fair use" provisions apply always
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Some time ago I asked about users that had no type counters (author, authority, participant...) for the reputation in their profile.
The answer was that the system needs a bit of time until new users get the counters.
Today I have seen people without counters in the page 15 of the list (that means they are at least some hours in the system). They were in the middle of a lot of people with those same counters (before and after them).
The only difference is, they still had round 0 points, the rest of the users had some points (from 2 to 351).
I suppose no points = no counters, but that was not like that before.
Member IDs = 14974507, 14974506 and 14974505
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sometime, usually during database maintenance, some Reputation Events get lost due to database errors.
If that happens, then there will be a group of events that fail to get recorded.
We are trying to figure out how to mitigate this problem.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I filtered once last week using "SQL" and now (and probably since then) "Show All Posts" or clearing the filter, the "+" filter label disappears but the return set is only "SQL" posts. Nothing is of "interest" specified in the right panel either.
If I broke CP, I'm really sorry! But I didn't mean to break it.
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[EDIT]
Oh, ok. There WAS something in the right-hand panel filter. FF doesn't make typing visible in this control when the background is black and fonts are generally/manually set to lighter shades.
So it was me.
Didn't break anything, turns out!
[/EDIT]
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It's a pernicious bug, that they have been working on for quite a while: the questions filter sometimes just sets itself to a random (or randomish) group of tags without any input from the user. It's proving complicated to track down ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I found that if I press and hold on an item, the submenu will pop up.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It look as though the two responses "Re: Kayan Yazi" are answers to "How to get an an answer to your question", but that's not the case - the original message was early marked as "closed" but has now disappeared completely, leaving the responses hanging in mid air.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I did a clean up of Closed messages which unfortunately left some responses floating.
My bad.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I may well be imagining this, but didn't @ username codes used to work in QA answers?
I tried it here: Can I add an RSS feed from a medium publication?[^] but it didn't generate a link, so I assume it didn't send an email either?
(I've posted a request in Article Writing so it's covered, but I'm reasonably sure it used to work?)
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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No, it doesn't. Yet.
We'll be adding that, and a couple of other things that may help
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I wanted to report a spammer in the S&A Forum. When pasting the URL to the profile the script doesn't linkify it.
The "clock" appears, think, think, think... and the it pastes the plain URL without href and so on
EDIT: Not working there and not working here in the B&S forum.
Using FF 81.0.1
M.D.V.
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Depends on the URL. Sometimes our title grabbing spider gets blocked.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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