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When a blog post is pulled it is sent for moderation to moderation queue. Most of them (my guess is 90%, because 90% of my last week's statistics about these posts say that they) have a problem of format. Most of the blogs have good content, good topic discussed and other similar good things. But the format such as syntax highlighting, other targeting scripts and web analytics JavaScript script files inside the HTML make them not comply to the CodeProject standards.
Some of these bloggers are good members of CodeProject so they also know good about CodeProject standards and theme. They can edit their posts in a way that it suits CodeProject theme and standards.
Wouldn't it be easy, along with the notification of "Your blog {blog} has been consumed and {number of articles} have been pulled". You also show them a link to where they can check their posts and then submit publish. On the page you can ask them to check if the post complies with standards including quality and quantity of post, syntax highlighting (if used) and other stuff such as removing the scripts and other HTML raw data.
This would save one cycle of moderators and would ask the user to manually publish the post after reviewing the stuff.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It is changing all the time, but you may be able to reproduce it anyway...
When I looking at the list of the unanswered questions I see certain order, but when moving from question to question it is not the same...
Just now I realized that when clicking on 'Next' in question with arn=1 a got arn=5 instead of arn=2...
going directly to question 2 is working perfectly, but when hitting 'Next' there I'm getting an other question with arn=2 and from there 'Prev' takes me back to the previous question but this time with arn=1...
Big mess there...
[FOLLOW-UP]
It may be a caching problem as it seems to be settled after 10-15 minutes...
[MORE FOLLOW-UP]
It is an in-out condition. I saw it yesterday a few times, and just now I have 1 to 11 jump in the list!
[EVEN MORE FOLLOW-UP]
On the same accord: if question is deleted you still can get it while moving with 'Next' button, but on the page of the deleted question there is no 'Next'/'Prev' button...
[AND EVEN MORE FOLLOW-UP]
I also noticed that in some cases there are no 'Next' and 'Prev' buttons at all - as I see it only happening with a new item, that just popped in the list (and in the first place)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 19-May-15 9:19am.
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Please Delete this account :
MehranGhanizadeh
I have already an account in CP, created in 12 years ago,
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=377823[^]
and I have created this account, by mistake, by logging in from google plus,
please delete the second account, in which there is no profile picture. Thanks in advanced.
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You can do that yourself: go to "My Settings", check the "Close this account" checkbox, and then click "Save My Settings".
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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When I try to sign into Code Project it takes me straight back to the page I was at, doesn't sign me in, and doesn't report an error.
I try to reset my password and I get an error saying my account does not exist. So I try and create an account with my email address and it says that it is already in use - same goes for my display name.
I created this new account and everything works fine. I have this problem on a fresh Windows 7 install, and I've tried the troubleshooting steps (cookies enabled etc).
Can the account be deleted/fixed/reactivated/reset/... ?
Thanks
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Thank you kindly for the report. We're on it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Some Whois data.[^]
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 message[^] Sascha refers to has been removed as inappropriate, I feel that sends the wrong signals to the users.
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I'm not sure if this is somehow related to the already mentioned mirror, but I wanted to inform you that I located another one:
http://dj9okeyxktdvd.cloudfront.net/
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Thank you kindly! We're on it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Not a big issue, I just thought you'd like to know. The vertical line in the message tree sometimes appears in the middle of the page like this one:
http://imgur.com/ko7eTrG[^]
I'm not sure when it occurs, I tried opening several, but this is the only message where it is happening right now. Maybe it is caused by the highly intellectual content of the post 
Safari on iOS 8.3 (iPod). Looks more like a crack in the screen until you look closely and notice it scrolls...
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I found that if you go from a post to one below it the issue appears, but not the other way around. Same happens between threads as well.
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 general topic has been brough up several times recently but I haven't seen this suggestion yet)
Suggestion:
To improve the appearance of the technical discussion forums, introduce a push-off forum ("trashbin" / <insert nicer name here>) into which protectors may move those questions which in one or the other way violate the posting guidelines but don't have to be completely deleted. The poster might receive an email notifying him about that.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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This is what voting was meant to accomplish: People downvote the bad questions and we de-emphasise them.
If a protector moves a question to a trashbin, who would then answer them? Who would actually want to go dumpster diving to find what's there?
To me this is "deleting the bad ones without saying you're deleting them", which may be more palatable to some, but the effect is the same.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Who would actually want to go dumpster diving to find what's there?
I would. Oh sorry, wrong forum... 
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You won't find any lasers there 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Based on the discussion under this answer[^], do we need to have an explicit declaration of when it is and is not acceptable to post links to commercial products?
In case it gets deleted:
- (Question about Excel Interop)
- (Answer which links to a well-known and oft-spammed commercial product)
- Me: Posting links to commercial components is considered spam.
- Him: Where does it say that?
- Me: Why would it need to say it anywhere? You're posting a link to a product which has to be purchased, giving the makers of that product free advertising. That's spam by anyone's definition.
- Him: Spam is unwanted communication. This individual asked for a suggestion so in response I said what I have used with success and provide him a link to look at it under his own accord. If you go by that extreme, we can't talk about any of Microsoft's products or post any links to them because they are commercial.
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: do we need to have an explicit declaration of when it is and is not acceptable to post links to commercial products?
If so, maybe distuingishing between posting a link to a commercial product and just mentioning its name?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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When I used links to commercial products in answers/solutions I marked them as exactly that. It was not often I used this, but with the currently enforced policy I'd think twice about doing that.
Not that I'm doing much answering these days, there's just to much nitpicking and "I'm holier than thou" going on for my gusto.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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It depends...
A solution (an answer) is not a spamm, if it meets all the following criteria:
1) a solution is not a link-only-answer,
2) a solution explains at least in few words the issue,
3) link to commercial product is related to OP question (someone is looking for inspiration, design pattern, etc.)
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Hi,
I just wrote and publish a tips/trick. It has been voted 2 and 4.
It is not an extraordinary tips. But it does what it should and does it well, at least, to my point of view. I took the time to write a sample and share it to help people.
Everybody has the right to vote to their feelings, that's fine. But I wonder if it would not be a good idea to force people to write at least one line comment (minimum of some characters) that would explain their choice when they vote 1,2 or 3 stars? That way it would be easier for the writer to improve either its article, its code or at least understand the decision of the person. Stars are the only rewards to writers. A bad evaluation is hard to receive but it could, at least, be really useful if it come with comments.
Could it be a good idea to force people that vote 1-3 stars to write a little comment?
Would it be just a minimum of respect for the author?
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Eric Ouellet wrote: force people to write at least one line comment (minimum of some characters) that would explain their choice when they vote 1,2 or 3 stars?
It was exactly like that not too long ago. But it didn't solve the issue: Many people who downvoted just left a nonsensical comment.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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