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Hi,
it would be nice to have a personal ignore list like in other forums:
Postings from users on this personal blacklist will be ignored or marked (e.g. greyed out subject Message from this user ignored). The motivation behind this feature request is that there are members who stick out negatively. For example members who repeatedly repost the same questions or delete their posts. With thousands of members it's just human to have a few that can't follow the community guidelines or are just plain annoying. 
I know that you can vote down messages, when it is repeatedly the same user and talking to him hasn't helped then I would prefer to ignore this user's messages automatically in the future.
Just a suggestion.
/Moak
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Moak wrote: I know that you can vote down messages, when it is repeatedly the same user and talking to him hasn't helped then I would prefer to ignore this user's messages automatically in the future.
What happens when the user gets sufficient experience that they start asking questions that you are interested in? Suppose they've answered something correctly and you have the same problem - you'd no longer see the solution.
Also, this would place yet more strain on the CP servers because each user would have their own list. Another point to consider is what the effect this would have if you ignore a user who posts a message; would you want to ignore all the replies as well?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Another point to consider is what the effect this would have if you ignore a user who posts a message; would you want to ignore all the replies as well?
And then there are replies to replies, and replies to replies to replies, and etc....
Eventually the subject is likely to become something other than troll bait; the lack of any good way to implement this has kept me from ever using a killfile back in the usenet era.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: What happens when the user gets sufficient experience that they start asking questions that you are interested in?
I can live with that. Then there is always the possibility to revise your decision later for individual users. From my experience with other forums, people don't end up being blacklisted quickly but usually stay there for a long time. A ignore list will not stand in the way of users changing their behaviour.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: would you want to ignore all the replies as well?
No, the point is filtering text from disruptive people not to ban them for the whole community. From my experience with other forums this works even very well in long threads, it gives you a strong indications to read on or not.
Cheers, Moak
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Moak wrote: A ignore list will not stand in the way of users changing their behaviour.
No, but if you don't see them then you don't get to see that their behaviour has improved.
Moak wrote: No, the point is filtering text from disruptive people not to ban them for the whole community. From my experience with other forums this works even very well in long threads, it gives you a strong indications to read on or not.
And you end up losing context. Ultimately, you can see the user name easily, so just ignore them if you want to.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Pete this is just a suggestion with additional features for those who want to use it, nobody is forced to use it. 
Let's assume for a moment you want to use it, it will give you new possibilities to ignore, unignore users, see ignored messages on a extra click (details depend on technical implementation, but that's how it works in other forums). As long as someone is on your personal ignore list, it's a concious decision that this user is more disruptive than helpful. With a ignore list you gain productivity and a more relaxing time. If you don't want to use it, nothing changes from your perspective.
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I agree, but I think there are bigger things for Chris and co to focus on hence the alternative viewpoint - I really don't see it as that big an improvement, but if we all agreed with each other all the time, this would be a really crappy site.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: but if we all agreed with each other all the time, this would be a really crappy site
[wavy line dream sequence]
CSS: Down with The Man. Down with The Government!
John Simmons: Actually Capn'n, you raise some excellent points regarding the lack of balance inherent in todays society vis a vis personal expression vs communal safety
Christian Graus: Exactly, John, and I think The Cap'n is spot on. I was just reading up on this on my fantastic iPad - which hasn't given me a seconds trouble, BTW - after a great conversation with my local Telstra rep (I really do have to rememeber to send him a gift basket) after my usual, wonderfully enjoyable Qantas flight.
CSS: Qantas? I've heard nothing but good things about them. That's wonderful, Christian...
[/wlds]
 OK, you're right...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I know there are some who would like it but it would not, in my opinion, be a highly used feature and would create more issues than it would solve. Well, issues for us, in any case 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I totally agree, it is a 'nice to have feature' not an urgent one. Should have said that.
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When you post a tip/trick, the Date Posted doesn't actually show the date until some time after it was posted. For instance, I posted one on Saturday, and today the date posted reads "2 days ago". I personally think this serves no beneficial purpose as opposed to just posting the date.
The reason I'm asking is that it makes scraping the data (specifically, the date posted) a bit more problematic because now I have to have two different parsing methods and the possibility of having to do date math.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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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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IMO you won't win this one. Just check for "ago" and take it from there.
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Why do you say that? 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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1. for small timespans relative time is easier to humans than absolute time
2. easy scraping is not very relevant, those pages are for human consumption.
3. consistency; articles, forums, Q&A, T&T all should use the same.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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For Tips n Tricks I think you're right: we should be showing absolute dates, no relative, since tips are less time sensitive than Q & A's.
You're just really trying to get me to finalise the API, aren't you?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yep - you're onto my nefarious plans. I must now change tactics. DAMN YOU, MAUNDER!
.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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I am not able to add comment to this[^] answer. This was reported before but we were able to add comments to the posts after sometime so it was not a considered a bug I guess. But it is happening again. 
Anyone facing same issue?
..Go Green..
modified on Monday, May 10, 2010 1:34 AM
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I am trying to track down why you are having issues with adding comments.
Were you having problems with your Internet connection at the time, such as very slow response.
Did you disable JavaScript?
Were you connected at a different location than normal?
Matthew Dennis
Senior Developer
The Code Project
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Matthew Dennis wrote: Did you disable JavaScript?
Were you connected at a different location than normal?
No.
Matthew Dennis wrote: Were you having problems with your Internet connection at the time, such as very slow response.
Internet speed was comparatively slower than the normal at that time. But then I could access every other page properly.
..Go Green..
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Can we get a darker border around them? I can hardly see the border, and the comments are starting to look like one great big giant blob of text.
.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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How's it now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Where did they go? All I get is
Forums
* Bold indicates new messages since 16:29 8 May '10
They were fine earlier this afternoon!
Google Chrome, XP SP3 if it is relevant...
I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.
Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
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And now they're back again - just a glitch I assume!
I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.
Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
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Looks like deleted comments are not really deleted, I can see them in two different ways:
- While being logged in, go to a QA page where you deleted your own comment. It still shows the comment there with a remark "Publishing Status: Deleted". Why not remove it from the HTML output?
- While not being logged in, deleted comments are not visible on the QA page. However, go to your user's profile page and click on "Comments Posted" (example), you will be able to read all comments including deleted ones.
Sorry if this was posted previously, hope this feedback helps.
/M
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Thanks for bringing this up. What we're planning to do is hide it everywhere except on the My Comments page. We'll hide their initially/by default as well but allow an option to see deleted comments.
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