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modified 30-Dec-17 19:56pm.
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On many occasions I have recommended in other technical / programming forums to read Code Project "How to post / answer question".
In other words - I hold Code Project in high regards partially because these "How to ..." instructions.
Unfortunately I am beginning to see " I am the expert , do what I say ... Read the book " attitude in some newer forum replies. I call such replies "sermons" and have encountered few of such replies to my own posts.
Would it be possible to include in "How to" instruction to refrain from expressing such "teaching" attitude? Specially when most computer geeks are no teachers by profession.
There is a big difference between post explaining the resolution of the problem and just nagging OP to read such and such book starting from Chapter 1.
Cheers and best in 2018
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How about "Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.".
Does that cover it?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Maybe add the LMGTFY as well?
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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Nah - I always want to punch someone when they throw that one at me. I know it has it's uses but I just have a personal bias against it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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the name & pwd boxes disappear immediately, leaving just the labels.
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Do you have any addons installed, like adblocker?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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UBlock.
yep. that seems to be the cause.
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Which version? On 57.0.3 (64bit) on Win10 it's all working as expected for me.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Bug in calculation of time[In my eyes]
In my profile questions section time showing 5hrs 5mins ago updated
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In Detais Question section time showing 17mins ago updated
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I've noticed that when spam questions - usually supplements or "male enhancement" products - get through without being spotted they contain non-link URLs which contain the same site: supplementdealuk dot wordpress dot com
If we blacklist "http:..." and "https:...." so any message containing it goes direct to moderation we can prevent these getting published, and thus from appearing on the front page? All it would take as far as UI is concerned would be a Protector only list edit page to add / remove URLs from the list in the same way that uBlock does for ads?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Great idea.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just mark them as Spam. After being flagged as Spam a few times, the Spam Filter will learn that these links are associated with Spam and send messages to the Moderation.
The problem with Black Lists is that the Spammers change their urls regularly as they get black listed, so we would have to spend a lot of effort to maintain a Black List.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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We do, but the detector doesn't seem to pick up on non-link URLs too well - look at the number of "Spam in QA" reports in the S&A forum.
How about we time stamp them? A black list entry lasts 30 days since it was last seen and is then automatically removed? Anything which makes it harder for them encourages them to move to a more vulnerable site ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Here: Member questions & answers[^]
According to the list, I posted my answer to "Python convert string and variable to list name" 6 hours ago, which is wrong. If I click on the link, it says "Posted 1hr ago", and that's correct.
[Edit] Probably the same as this bug report[^].
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
modified 26-Dec-17 16:19pm.
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Rep points for posting and being upvoted (and other such things) are often missing. Yeah - I know I've posted about this in the past. Now, however, I realize that I'm specifically targeted.
I can't see anyone else's stuff, mind you, and so, without evidence to the contrary I just assume it's just me.
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When I try to vote I received the above message. What do I need to do to get a "confirmed email address"?
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I've had another email sent to you. Just click the link in the email to confirm and you'll be good to go.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Try to sign-in in your CodeProject account while the "New Membership" email field is not empty instead contains an invalid email value. The sign-in will not proceed and will ask to correct the "New Membership" email. Since you are an existing user, you won't want to use or correct that field. When you are providing correct details under the "Existing Members" form, then clicking the sign-in button should allow successful login and ignore the email value in "New Membership" email field.
Here are the steps to reproduce the above issue.
1 - Go to the sign-in page on the code project site.
2 - The page will have two forms - one for "Existing Members" and other for "New Membership".
3 - Provide an invalid email value under the "New Membership" email field.
4 - Provide correct details under the "Existing Members" email and password fields.
5 - Click on the "Existing Members" sign-in button.
6 - It'll not log in and ask to correct the "New Membership" email.
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Thanks for the report. I'll get this sorted out.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks for the consideration.
Best.
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The home page is currently showing my new tip as posted five hours ago:
It's currently 12:17, and (according to Chrome history) I posted it at 11:38.
If I've invented a time machine, I'd have thought I would have had much better uses for it than that... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Maybe Time Zone problems?
I mean, it takes your time zone publish time, but it compare with server current time? or something similar?
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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I think I know what the issue is: it's the time formatting of the new Follow system you're testing that's not handling the GMT offset correctly (ironic given I don't think you have an offset). Thanks mate. Not tonight though: too much celebratory imbibing going on to code safely.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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