Bugs and Suggestions

Chris Maunder5-Sep-12 1:50

5-Sep-12 1:50

Now that's just mean.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

OriginalGriff5-Sep-12 1:58

OriginalGriff

5-Sep-12 1:58

You're used to it! Big Grin | :-D

It comes as a shock the first time...

Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

Eddy Vluggen2-Sep-12 2:16

Eddy Vluggen

2-Sep-12 2:16

Mika Wendelius wrote:
Why not having something like that on CP? For example, you report 50 posts as a spam, you get a reward "Spammer splatter" which would have a proper icon and so on.

You're awarded a point (with a maximum of 25 per day) for each spam-article that you report Smile | :)

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Wendelius2-Sep-12 4:00

Wendelius

2-Sep-12 4:00

Yep, I know Smile | :)

Actually I thought that this would have nothing to do with the rep points etc. Just a bunch of collectible items... Although now as you mention, perhaps after collecting enough of items they could be traded to an orange, CodeProject signed swatter Smile | :)

Eddy Vluggen2-Sep-12 4:15

Eddy Vluggen

2-Sep-12 4:15

Something like this[^]?

Sorry, CodeProject T-shirt is here[^] - but they trade against other collectible items, not against reputation points Smile | :)

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Wendelius2-Sep-12 5:04

Wendelius

2-Sep-12 5:04

Yep, something like that Smile | :)

The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

Chuck N0rris2-Sep-12 22:36

Chuck N0rris

2-Sep-12 22:36

Mika Wendelius wrote:
You do something several times enough, you get a reward. The reward is typically represented as an icon along to your profile.

I'm ready to......[^]

Chuck Norris

BillWoodruff6-Sep-12 18:57

BillWoodruff

6-Sep-12 18:57

Hi Mika,

In my humble opinion: this would just introduce "merit-badge clutter" aka "visual static," as found on sites like StackOverFlow. I am astounded my trivial contributions there have earned me twenty-three "badges" Smile | :)

I say this with the greatest respect for StackOverFlow, and Jeff Atwood, its uber-genius creator (with Joel Spolsky, who is now CEO of StackExchange), blogger par excellence[^], and such monster-technical-intellect(so prolific !), monster-rep contributors/editors to SO as: Jon Skeet (now with Google, England ?), Erik Lippert from Microsoft, the polymath Marc Gravell, and many others.

I really believe CP's current rep system is well-done, is continually fine-tuned by all the hamsters, from the Hamster-In-Chief on down, and appropriately simple (interface parsimony).

best, Bill

<color>"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images." Niels Bohr

Unable to Delete Draft Tip/Trick

Wendelius6-Sep-12 19:08

Wendelius

6-Sep-12 19:08

That's a really good point. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Didn't think of it that way.

The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

Andrew Rissing31-Aug-12 5:03

Andrew Rissing

31-Aug-12 5:03

I'm unable to successfully delete this draft tip/trick[^].

When I do, it seems like it is successful, but upon refresh it reappears.

Re: Unable to Delete Draft Tip/Trick

Sean Ewington31-Aug-12 6:11

Sean Ewington

31-Aug-12 6:11

I'd be happy to take care of that for you. May I?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Re: Unable to Delete Draft Tip/Trick

Andrew Rissing31-Aug-12 8:17

Andrew Rissing

31-Aug-12 8:17

Sure, go for it.

Thanks.

Re: Unable to Delete Draft Tip/Trick

Sean Ewington31-Aug-12 8:19

Sean Ewington

31-Aug-12 8:19

Thank you kindly. I have taken care of it.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Changing article to tip/trick - Reputation not updated...

Andrew Rissing31-Aug-12 4:56

Andrew Rissing

31-Aug-12 4:56

When changing from an article to a tip/trick, I noticed that I was still awarded 100 author points, rather than the 10 for a tip/trick.

See Scrolling Text[^].

Just fyi.

A Big Bold problem

PIEBALDconsult31-Aug-12 4:28

PIEBALDconsult

31-Aug-12 4:28

I used ! ( <b><big>!</big></b> ) in a comment
Find files than have the same contents[^]
and it didn't work as expected. (According to the preview it did work here though.)

Chris Maunder1-Sep-12 10:35

1-Sep-12 10:35

By design. We had so many members posting HTML in code blocks, and so many requests to have markups automatically HTML encoded, that we HTML encoded markups in Pre blocks.

You can use <span class=highlight>...</span> to highlight stuff in PRe blocks.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

PIEBALDconsult1-Sep-12 17:49

PIEBALDconsult

1-Sep-12 17:49

Chris Maunder2-Sep-12 3:16

2-Sep-12 3:16

I'm open to your suggestions on balancing the needs of different members. Perhaps another checkbox "I'm using markup in code blocks" or better yet a checkbox, checked by default "auto-correct formatting" which would auto-encode, and maybe do things like convert "i" to "I" etc.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

nerver change a winning team

PIEBALDconsult2-Sep-12 5:39

PIEBALDconsult

2-Sep-12 5:39

Maybe a profile setting. I dunno.

I pretty much want auto-nothing.

fheyn30-Aug-12 23:53

fheyn

30-Aug-12 23:53

hi,
never mess with a correctly running app!
Can't submit a post. Always says subject must be between 20 and 250 characters (half an hour ago it said between 3 and 50)

ok, ok, my fault. it says 3 to 50 words (why 3 ?) and not characters.

modified 31-Aug-12 6:16am.

Re: nerver change a winning team

Slacker00731-Aug-12 0:16

Slacker007

31-Aug-12 0:16

We may be a team here, but a "winning" team, that might be pushing it a bit.

Just saying...

Re: nerver change a winning team

OriginalGriff2-Sep-12 2:48

OriginalGriff

2-Sep-12 2:48

fheyn wrote:
it says 3 to 50 words (why 3 ?)

So you can fit "SND CODZ URGNTZZZ!!!!" in.

Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

Article Draft Lost

coder25530-Aug-12 18:30

coder255

30-Aug-12 18:30

I spent a few hours working on an article, and when I went to review and finally post it today, the draft is nothing more than the initial template. I did notice that the editor always said that the draft was saved less than a minute ago, and assumed it was just saving drafts frequently. Maybe if it gave a time in seconds, I would have noticed that it was just not functioning at all.

Re: Article Draft Lost

Chris Maunder5-Sep-12 1:29