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I used to vote. I can't vote now.
Quote: You do not have sufficient Reputation to vote in this survey
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The problem I'm addressing came up many times recently: There are members approving articles without spending any thought on it. Today, a question, probably intended for QA but mis-posted as an article, got approved as an article (ref. Approving without reading. - CodeProject[^]).
My suggestion for solving this issue:
Instead of requiring a fixed number of 10 approvals to get published, an article (or other kind of publication) in moderation requires an approval/report-ratio of X with a minimum of Z votes in total. Approvals and reports don't uniformly count as "1", but instead are weighted, based on..
(Option 1)
..the reputation of the member casting the vote. (In which way exactly I'll leave up to the admins.)
(Option 2)
..the past quality of votes of the member casting the vote.
Explanation: After an article didn't get approved because the reports weighed higher than the approvals, members having approved the article are given a malus to the weight of their future votes. As we currently don't have the problem of articles not being published because of too many false reports, the inverse case probably shouldn't lead to a bonus to the weight of future votes. Instead the vote-weight of members who were given a malus previously could recuperate over time. Members who just acquired the right to moderate articles might start out with a lower vote-weight.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 16-Apr-16 17:26pm.
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You are absolutely brilliant![^]
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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The Javascript that generates the "Quote Selected Text" button in the QA Answer editor has some issues with quoting.
The generated button displays with the text:
');" class="button"> Quote Selected Text
The generated HTML is this (as displayed! I had to change the actual quoting so it would display here as the actual HTML):
<button onclick="return QuoteText('<ASP:Literal ID=" quotebuttonname"="" runat="server">');" class="button"> Quote Selected Text </button>
The nested " in the onclick seems to be the issue.
The Javascript is:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.all||window.getSelection) {
var quoteButtonName = "%3CASP:Literal ID=\"QuoteButtonName\" runat=\"server\" /%3E";
document.write(unescape("%3Cbutton%20onclick%3D%22return%20QuoteText%28%27"));
document.write(unescape(quoteButtonName));
document.write(unescape("%27%29%3B%22%20class%3D%22button%22%3E%20%20Quote%20Selected%20Text"));
document.write(unescape("%20%20%3C/button%3E"));
}
</script>
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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All sorted
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's too bad that there's no HTML tag that closes all tags that are still open within a div that contains this tag.
I'd call it </imaretard>
Usage would be:
<div>
<table...>
</imaretard>
</div>
and it would close the table element.
".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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When I view my latest article, some images seem to randomly not be found (I get the broken image icon). Refreshing the page fixes it, but the next time I come back to the article, it might happen again. I thought it might just be the crappy DoD network coupled with being forced to use IE that was responsible, but it happens at home with Firefox as well. Article link:
Another Take on a WPF Wizard[^]
".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
modified 14-Apr-16 7:53am.
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I have noticed this sometimes during the last days for articles in moderation. Placeholder shown but right clicking for image info (with Mozilla) shows the image in the preview.
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We have a sync service that ensures all images are on all sservers. It can take a short time to kick in sometimes. Let me know if you keep seeing these issues.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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and nobody cares. probably why this hasn't been noticed. SOME of us work in a shop where VB is the standard...
reading the article by "Jalapeno Bob" from yesterday titled
Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET
link to download gives the following response
/KB/vb/1092049/SpecialFolders.zip appears to be missing on our servers. D'oh.
if i click on the 'if your download doesn't start, click here' link, big black windows cmd-looking window appears, with the following text
Ticket: (No ticket provided - possibly an error in the error-system)
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_
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We love VB too. We really do. Can you please try again? There was a problem with the links in the article.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just had a answer come up in moderation, where it had a link - which was nice and visible in yellow - but the analysis gave:
Token % spam # in ham msgs # in spam
domain:www.codeproject.com 4.40 % 4,593 73 Perhaps it should ignore links to CP? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 13-Apr-16 4:40am.
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This value will not increase the probability of being spam. In fact it will tend to reduce the probability, so why add a explicit special case.
The strength of the spam filter is that it learns what is spam based on the moderators' decisions
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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The issue is that spammer are hiding links in punctuation and spaces and so when it comes time to approve / reject spam, knowing that there are hidden links allows you to spot SneakySpam™
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's kinda the whole idea - a link to CP isn't spam, so it shouldn't be considered in the decision!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So when I write a formula using this code:
<div class="math">$20 \mu \cdot 5$</div>
It shows up correctly, but when I try to do an inline math formula with this code:
20 \mu \cdot 5
It wont show up.
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It's not you - it doesn't work in the Article Formatting tips for CodeProject[^] article either! 
"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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If Chris can't make it work I excused - I think
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In which article?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The formatting tips about LaTex Math states that you should use $...$ for block and (...) for inline...
So it should be
(20 \mu \cdot 5)
It worked for me...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Message Removed
modified 11-Apr-16 9:46am.
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But it seems like basically all of them have one thing in common.
The same line repeats twenty or so times.
The spam filter might be in the need of a tiny tweak?
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