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When a question has been deleted, it should no longer appear in the list of questions. It's annoying to click on a question in the list, only to be greeted with the "sorry, can't find this page" error.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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In quick answers or the forums? (assuming quick answers, but want to be sure)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yes, in Quick Answers.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Sorry 'bout that. I'll add it to the bug list.
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http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/71844/Host-a-form-from-inside-a-form.aspx[^]
Look at the 2nd response. All of the text is bold and there's no markup (that I see) that makes it bold. I tried a couple of times to un-bold it, and nothing worked.
Solution ===============
IT WAS MY FAULT! 
I had an unclosed bold tag in MY response that was screwing up the rest of the page.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 9:57 AM
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Enquirer:
Remove an answered Programming Forum Question (with at least one reply): -10
Participant:
Vote survey: 1 point
Newsletter opt-out (description is missing): -points for opt-in
Sign in (retroactively for every year with activity before 2009): 12 points
Notes: People removing their initial question are rude to those who answered it, I think it should be reflected in the user's enquirer status. Counting member sign-ins started somewhere in 2009, at least it looks like it from different members reputation graphs. I think if a newsletter gives 50 participation points, then every year of actively participating at this site should count something too. It would give a nice feeling for those long time members who do not have an MVP status.
Have a good weekend
/M
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Moak wrote: Remove an answered Programming Forum Question (with at least one reply): -10
I think this is a great suggestion. 
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...
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Moak wrote: Remove an answered Programming Forum Question (with at least one reply): -10
But sometimes, the "answer" is telling the OP NOT to post duplicate questions. Besides, I sometimes answer a question, and then delete it. That way, they get my answer, but nobody else is bothered with the question. I don't do this very often, but it has happened a few times
A BETTER suggestion would be to immediately remove the question from the list of questions if its been deleted. In fact, I came here to make that very suggestion.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: But sometimes, the "answer" is telling the OP NOT to post duplicate questions.
If someone posted a duplicate question and removed it later he/she has earned the -10 points in my opinion. 
In any case, others will still see the thread in the forum because the initial post can only be blanked by the poster (not completely removed). To make life easier for others I'd recommend downvoting/reporting duplicates (or let the original poster remove it)... others can see what is going on and ignore it.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Besides, I sometimes answer a question, and then delete it.
No problem, as long it was not replied to by someone else.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: A BETTER suggestion would be to immediately remove the question from the list of questions if its been deleted. In fact, I came here to make that very suggestion.
Good idea (if there are enough moderators), my suggestion is for questions deleted by the original poster with at least one reply.
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modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 9:20 AM
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The entire problem is that the question is still listed, even though it's been deleted. The fix is to delete the question from the list of questions. There's no need to muck around with points and such.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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The issue I see is that there are people in the C++ message board who sometimes delete their initial post (example). It is not about duplicates, but about rude behaviour that could be reflected in their reputation as enquirer: Assume a member who posted 5 questions and blanked them after receiving answers, he will gain a negative enquirer status (with my suggestion), doesn't sound like a good idea?
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Our suspicion is that this doesn't happen often. I'll still add it to the TODO list but we probably won't be able to get to it for a while.
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In case you didn't catch on (or for anybody else who happens upon this thread in the future), he was talking about the forums while you were talking about Quick Answers. Two different beasts entirely.
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In Q&A section, when I click on some questions I am shown 'Page Not Found'.
This is happening for many questions.
Looking for a switch!
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Ankurm/ wrote: In Q&A section, when I click on some questions I am shown 'Page Not Found'.
This is happening for many questions.
Another confirmation.
This is indeed happening on many questions.
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Me too facing same problem since morning
Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim
So Smile Please
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All fixed. A redirection was missing on a few of the servers.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Verified!
Looking for a switch!
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Your link doesn't work; but if you're talking about sandympatil[^] he's been posting drivel at a level only slightly below the high sewermark set by teh developer; and has explicitly[^] stated his only reason for this crap is to try and gain points. As you can see by his rep graph he's hemorrhaging points at the maximum daily cap for debater penalties.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Dan
I believe Hans was linking to Ladislav Nevery's thread which got moved to this forum (Suggestions).
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I would like to post some articles for TclTk. Can we have a category for Scripting Languages and have TclTk, Python, Ruby, Perl etc. under it?
Regards
N. Sharjith
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Hi guys. I recently noticed that every time I publish an article. One guy usually comes around in forum and votes my hard work with zero rating just because he doesn't like the way I format source code.
That's perfectly fine. I love democracy.
Articles that are dealing with popular things like "capturing video" usually will never have problem with current voting model.
His rant event with few fake accounts will get lost in 96 or so positive votes.
But articles that are useful only to specific but small community have problem.
And we obviously don't wanna end-up in model where people focus only on grid control
Problem is if one creates more accounts and posts negative posts and zero votes for no apparent reason to article that even though voted 4.7 avg had only 5 votes on total for long period of time.
Everyone gets the math I think.
Currently I solve it like this.
I post the article he immediately posts his whitespace rant with zero votes I delete and repost the article to reset the forum.
(Yes Sometimes needed multiple times during first hour or so) Then after day or so things calm down and people in the forum start to focus on sharing tips and try to help each other. But now I no longer have will to delete whole forum just for some useless rant since forum have some value now.
To CodeProject Guys: ": Please. Give Article authors Forum moderation rights" Thx. On every Author Blog this is normal thing.
Also there is this voting war for place on CodeProject front page where people will immediately vote you 3 just to get their articles there.
To CodeProject Guys: : Please. Let only people that give something to community (articles?) right to vote scores lower than 4. So no one will have more votes votes via zillion of empty accounts. Also your DB will be more compact this way ;D
And finally.
To CodeProject Guys: : Pls calculate and show KARMA rating of each member next to each his post by color.
Now if you vote article down your KARMA goes down. KARMA slowly regenerates. 3 days from complete low ?
I your KARMA is too low you can't post negative scores but you should still retain ability to comment things to preserve democracy and article value in the same time.
"There is always a better way"
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I've added two articles in the last few months, both have reasonable averages.
When I published the first someone voted 3 early on (despite achieveing a decent average), dropping it from the "latest best picks". Once that happens, and and it leaves the latest 10 articles list it disappears below the waves. This is all a biot disheartening, especially given the effort that goes into them. Your not the 1st person to mentional the tactical voting scenario, here, but I'm not sure what can be done about it.
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter.
Pete o'Hanlon: If it wasn't insulting tools, I'd say you were dumber than a bag of spanners.
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