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Jörgen Andersson wrote: it's always Halloween on CP
You mean things rise from the dead, we're constantly being freaked out by strange creatures, and everyone drinks too much?
I guess you have a point.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh god, it's painful to laugh when you have a lumbago.
Now I have to get another coffee and some screen wipes.
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Chris Maunder wrote: and everyone drinks too much?
as far as it is not after midnight...
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 just burst out laughing!
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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@Chris-Maunder, the site is EXTREMELY slow for me right now. What's up with it? Is the Turbo feature disabled again? Or is the database issue back to haunt you?
I keep getting all sorts of errors as well.
EDIT: And as soon as I post this, it goes back to normal. 
Must be Gremlins.
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???
modified 18-Oct-15 16:15pm.
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Consider the button pushed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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@Chris-Maunderr, the site is EXTREMELY slow for me right now. What's up with it? Is the Turbo feature disabled again? Or is the database issue back to haunt you?
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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My answer to this[^] is in pending status... I believe it is the spam filter... Are you sure the filter is not over-sensitive?
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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No. It's very easy to recognize what answer is spam and what isn't.
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Q/A A vote of three (3) for an answer, is it neutral or not? Does it Change the rep Points of a member who answered?
So far I assumed 3 is neutral... but a member who's answer I voted 3 (and of course gave also a comment why) claimed it is not...
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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3 is neutral and gives no points. It has, literally, no point.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thank you.
Quote: It has, literally, no point
? I think it makes sense if one votes and give also a comment for the vote. At least a 3 means I recognized the answer, even I can maybe not agree with it.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Chris Maunder wrote: It has, literally, no point
It does : Our Swiss members would not be able to vote, without it.
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Chris Maunder wrote: It has, literally, no point.
Ahhh, so was it coded by Oblio?
(The Point[^])
"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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Do you have a Vote3() method that's an empty body with the original throw new NotImplementedException() commented out? That'd be awesome. That's +10 points in any reasonable code review!
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You bet I do
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hi!
I'm used to press Ctrl+AVPag keys to go to the next page but it looks like it is not working anymore.
Using Windows 7 and IE11 here.
I've tried it in The Lounge.
Keep up the good work here! 
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See the instructions at the bottom of the page.
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Thank you Richard...
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This closed question: [^] appears to be the first question on QA asked by this OP.
Right now, the question is showing only one vote of #1.
While I felt the question was "borderline," I did ask the OP in a comment if this was a WinForms question, and asked them what they had tried. If they had responded appropriately, I would have given them some ideas about how to get going on this.
It seems reasonable to me to have some time-span of "grace" ... perhaps 24 hours ? ... before a question is closed, possibly taking into account the "newcomer" status of the OP. And, yes, of course, a "worst case" will soon show up whose behavior cries out for "no mercy."
thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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With respect I disagree about a grace period because
- Some questions just aren't appropriate
- Some questions are abusive or spam
- Some questions are duplicates
- Some questions have no hope.
These need to be removed immediately.
I think what you're after is a way to mark a question for clemency. A "I know this looks bad but we should give it a chance".
Fair enough, but it adds a level of complexity that may do more to confuse the general populace than make it easier.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks, Chris,
Indeed, some posts shout their need to be exterminated asap. What is obvious is that the current structure makes it far too easy to close any post.
I think the current metric for closing posts (that are not abuse, not spam, not totally whacko, not off-topic, not wrong-forum, etc.), the number of down-votes, is not serving the greater good of CP.
An idea (one of many possible) for another type of metric: a post on which a CP member with a certain "Authority" rep-level (or MVP status ?) has made a comment, or posted a solution, or voted the question above #2, should not be arbitrarily closed by a small number of down-votes.
The "bigger picture" structural issue I see is the absence of many CP MVP's from active participation in QA (for reasons that do not need re-stating), and the de facto encouragement of people to become "homework factories" in order to boost their reputations. imho, we do not create anything of value by simply providing code without comment, without an attempt to engage in dialog with the OP, without at least the attempt to educate.
Yes, I know, so easy for me to suggest ... when I don't have to sweat blood over the complex software that runs CP to implement what I suggest 
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The software is the easy part. Modelling human psychology is the hard bit.
BillWoodruff wrote: [a] post on which a CP member with a certain "Authority" [...] has made a comment [...] should not be arbitrarily closed
This is on the TODO. It's related to the same issue where you go to answer a question but someone else has closed it while you're answering.
I'll try to kill, or at least wing, two birds with one stone.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris,
Glad to hear you've got those two birds in your stone-sight
One rationale I see for a "grace period" of 24 hours is that if the OP is asked to clarify their question in a comment ... let's assume they are in a time-zone that is not the same as the person who posted the comment asking for clarification ... then I think it is only fair to give the OP a chance to respond.
On a technical level, it seems to me delaying question closure for a fixed period of time after the question is posted should be possible, should not require major surgery (?).
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Instead of just closing questionable questions there should be a possibility for the OP to improve the question after it has been closed because it's unclear or incomplete.
So instead of just plain rebuffing the OP he gets a message that those willing to help (well, at least those that looked at the question) don't think the question is phrased in way to be answered and some hints about what he could do to improve the question so he can refine and resubmit it.
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