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When I try to tidy the removed spam in the lounge, I just get
Items that need attention:
The message cannot be replied to or modified
I used to be able to dump the detritus, once the community had killed it's content.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: used to be able to dump the detritus
As in: edit and remove the bad content?
No need to: only admins and protectors can see the content.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As in delete the message so the forum isn't full of "Message automatically removed" paging everything else off the screen. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: No need to: only admins and protectors can see the content.
Open a new window and browse logged off  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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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Can you point me to a message you're trying to remove?
We've refactored the permissions system a little to make things more consistent. Checks are now (shockingly!) all done at the same place. I know - crazy talk. It may be that permissions have been, ahem, adjusted.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There's one in the Lounge right now: The Lounge[^] - I just tried and got:
Quote: Delete a Message
Items that need attention:
The message cannot be replied to or modified
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hi,
I have an older article, last updated in April 2016 (Arduino WiFi-Connected Weather Station with Android User Interface[^]).
Today I wanted to update the zip archives with the code since there were some changes. However, going to my article page on CP, I had the surprise that the content of the article is...gone. Practically, excepting one phrase in the beginning, there is nothing else. I am not sure exactly when this happened, but very likely in the last 1-2 months, since I am pretty sure that the content was there somewhere near the end of August, and also I have comments from 5.08.2016 on this articles, so peoples were able to read its content at that time.
In the revisions log, the last change is from 07.04.2016, and all the revision articles are also empty...excepting 2-3 sentences.
I've wrote this in the bugs section since it look like a bug to me.
Best regards,
Mircea.
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This is a symptom of our over-zealous HTML sanitiser. It removes bad tags. And the tag contents. An update is happening today.
I've removed the artic;e/section tag you had in there just to get the content back. We can roll back to your HTML5 marked up version later today.
Apologies.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks a lot for the fast response and for bringing back the article!
If I need to modify or fix something in my article to prevent such behavior, please let me know.
Mircea.
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Mircea Diaconescu wrote: If I need to modify or fix something in my article to prevent such behavior, please let me know.
No - the issue was our end.
I've updated our HTML filters and you should not see this problem again.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Okay. Thanks for fixing this!
Best regards,
Mircea.
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I think we need a new option "Doesn't belong on CP". Come across a couple of these lately, where none of the other reporting options fit - so I've just left them alone. There's another one now, talking about organisational structure for a corporation. a good article all in all, not spam, but not really what CP is about.
Cheers,
Mick
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The option exists already: "Off-topic".
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Fair enough - I read that as the article going off the topic it was purported to be, but it fits in that context too.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I am curious.
I remember seeing something about some sort of logic that is used to automatically remove 1 and 2 votes if they appear to be statistically negligible in comparison to 4 and 5 votes.
The reason I'm asking is that recently, my Being a Programmer article received a 1 vote (total 1-2 votes is 15, total 4-5 votes is 215).
What is the threshold used to establish that a 1 or 2 vote probably isn't warranted in an otherwise highly regarded article? Is it based on a percentage of votes? The reputation level of the voter? Both? Something else?
Further, if such a vote is negated, would the -20 that showed up in the reputation points list (for that particular vote) also be followed by a +20 in the list, in order to regain the points lost by the unwarranted vote?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I assume you've read this[^]? 
"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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Harrumph. It seems to me that a vote that is filtered out should also positively/negatively affect the rep points as well. It doesn't seem to me to be technologically difficult or even unreasonable. When someone unbookmarks an article, aren't the rep points for that bookmark also deducted?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Reputation you gain or lose from the community is different from the system that attempts to objectively rate an article's value. Yeah, we could tie them together and make points appear/disappear each time a new vote is made (meaning thresholds will change and the set of "accepted" votes changes) but how would this - at a practical level - make any difference?
Your rep reflects the ebb and flow of how you and your work is regarded, regardless of whether those opinions are accurate. Not that "accurate" in this case is even possible. That's like saying someone's opinions on your opinions could be accurate.
I know what your response to that last statement already is. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was answering a Q&A question, and was typing a for loop, and the editor kept capitalizing the indexer var (I was typing a lowercase "i", and it kept turning it into and "I". In fact, the same thing happened while I was typing this message.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Link or example please?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It appears as if it only happens at work (using IE 11 I think). With Firefox, it doesn't seem to do it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It does happen in IE.
Typed in IE (I typed a lower-case "i"):
for (I =
Typed in Firefox (again, a lowercase "i"):
for (i =
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Is the IE spellchecker on or off?
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Is there any way to implement so that User can select two or more topics to show the corresponding articles.
Right now we can select only One "header" and it sometimes forces me to click on the other header to see what has come.
Its not a major issue but helps a lot if it can be implemented.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Oh, we're going to make it way better than that
cheers
Chris Maunder
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