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What's the specific problem you're looking to solve?
I'm in favour of fixing broken things. I'm not in favour of breaking something else to fix something. And then causing leaks and squeaks and endless complaints about the fix forever after.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This is based on the assumption that most higher level users are actually programmers and have a certain level of maturity and integrity.
Um. Mostly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: What's the specific problem you're looking to solve?
Things that bother me, of course.
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm in favour of fixing broken things. I'm not in favour of breaking something else to fix something. And then causing leaks and squeaks and endless complaints about the fix forever after.
And you call yourself a programmer? 
BTW, you might recall an earlier suggestion I made regarding only allowing "This article is useful" votes, eliminating the numeric voting altogether. Of course, there's really no way to back-fill the system unless you make the assumption that an existing vote of (for example) 4 or more is required to determine whether or not an article is "useful", and all (existing) lower votes are thrown out.
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Message Removed
-- modified 18-Dec-14 7:08am.
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When approving a forum message from the moderation queue, it will be shown as modified (" [modified]" appended to the subject). This might irritate the poster.
Also the message count on the user's profile will count such messages twice. I just noticed this behaviour with a new member posting his first message. When then openning the Lates Messages list, there will be only one message shown.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: message from the moderation queue
Where is it?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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It seems to be one of the new spam prevention mechanisms.
When then spam detection triggers on a new forum message, it will be put into the moderation queue where it can be tagged as spam or be approved for publishing.
The moderation queue link is shown on the main page above the article moderation links when it is not empty.
I had so far one spam message and two valid posts. With the spam message I reported the account which got then closed very fast.
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I have never seen that link. Thanks for pointing that out. I will try to follow that link.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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You should spend more time on the main page than in the spam forum and Q&A 
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"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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I want student management system in android source code
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And I want a pony.
Try the Q&A[^] for better answers.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Thanks!
This is going to be a great Christmas! 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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It's a standard joke in my company for whenever marketing comes with a badly thought through feature request. (almost always that means)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Then you have come to the wrong place.
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I see that you're new to Code Project. First of all, please let me welcome to the community - it's a great place to be, and people will generally try to help out. Saying that, there are a couple of things that you should be aware of.
First of all, this part of the site is intended for people who want to suggest a new feature for the site, or who want to report a bug in the site. This isn't the place to pose a programming question.
Second point - people will help you with issues. They are highly unlikely to just hand over fully working systems for you. If you're lucky, you might find an article that does exactly want and that's great; the articles are what makes this site great after all. If there are no articles, then people will answer specific programming problems, but you have to show that you have tried things, and you should highlight where things are going wrong.
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Normally I just nuke these misplaced threads but nuking this would be liking kicking a stranger who unexpectedly opens a door for you.
You're a good man, Pete.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: You're a good man, Pete
He sure is. After reading arrogant and often technically shallow responses from people, and assuming even momentarily that the site's not what it used to be, you then come across guys like Pete and feel comfortable in that - for every idiot out there, CP has intelligent, smart-thinking folks like Pete! 
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 You're making me blush guys. I'd like to think that the vast majority of people here would respond in a similar way. People here are generally pretty good.
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Hi CP Admins,
I am Mohammed Hameed, the CP account holder for email Id: hameed dot in at hotmail dot com.
Currently using CP from the currently logged in account: hameed dot in at gmail dot com as my previous account is blocked.
Please consider this as my humble request to reactivate my account as currently it is blocked some months ago. I don't know why it has been blocked, may be unknowingly have done something which is not acceptable as per CP rules.
I have been using that account for more than 6 years now and I am the Article writer for the popular article: Code Review Checklist and Guidelines for C# Developers
and I want to write some more articles using this account.
Thanks.
modified 16-Dec-14 10:36am.
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I've looked into the things you posted on the days you were reported. Your account was not closed for an isolated incident, but rather over time. I would say to please avoid posting links to third party sites and products, and avoid accepting your own solution as the answer wherever possible.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean Ewington wrote: and avoid accepting your own solution as the answer
Hey Sean,
What's the deal with that? What's wrong in accepting your own answer if it's the best of the lot? (You could suppress rep score points if you think that's going to lead to cheating). But to force someone into picking the 2nd best solution merely because it'll get you banned from the site seems like a quirky approach.
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If you wanted to make a new separate suggestion to suppress rep points when you accept your own solution, I'm sure it would be something for the team / community to mull over.
My impression is that it isn't a huge problem, though.
In this case, of the questions asked that had solutions, a fairly large percentage were self solutions. Were they all legitimate situations? I want to believe so. But the more self solutions you accept, the more people might wonder. What I was trying to get at was more along the lines of, "if 80% of the solutions on your questions are your own solution, maybe try and lower that percentage a bit."
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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