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It's obvious after all these years that people don't (or can't) read the big message at the top of the lounge.
So, instead of everybody flaming people who ask programming questions, I think we need a way to "kindly" redirect people to the correct forum to ask their question. Maybe a little javascript activated drop down menu that says "Ask In...".
What do you all think?
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Steve Echols wrote: can't) read the big message at the top of the lounge
Steve Echols wrote: little javascript activated drop down menu
When a big bold HTML can not achieve this, do you think a little JavaScript can bring the offenders to book. Anyway, let us have some fun-time till the jerks realise their folly and mend their ways. 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: When a big bold HTML can not achieve this, do you think a little JavaScript can bring the offenders to book.
Well, that was for us CPians, so we could redirect them to the right place. (Can't we all just get along  )
Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: Anyway, let us have some fun-time till the jerks realise their folly and mend their ways.
Yeah, it is pretty fun to beat up on noobs, until they snap and start killing people in malls.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Report as "Spam", "Abuse", or "Programming Question"
Maxwell Chen
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That might be an option.
I was thinking it could automatically move the whole thread to the appropriate forum, but now that I think it through, it would probably be abused, just like everything else.
Oh, well, it was just a thought.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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If CP developed a robot or Java script to detect programming questions, many post in the Lounge might be treated as programming questions because of hex numbers, specific keyword or terms, etc.
Maxwell Chen
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Na, I meant the CPians who knew what forum the question should be asked in could hit a button, and it would move the thread over.
Thanks for responding though.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Steve Echols wrote: the CPians who knew what forum the question should be asked in could hit a button, and it would move the thread over.
It had better be moved by admins, otherwise there might be problems / argues.
Maxwell Chen
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Hehe, that ought to be funny enough when it starts to move posts high and low based on some "code" in the posters signature...
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Quite often the pq's are accompanied by "please email solution to abc@def.com". Why don't we just take the email address and submit it to a large number of known spammers?
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Add a "Ask your URGENTZ Question here!!", and a check box that says "Do you want codez with your answer?", then promptly redirect them to rentacoder. 
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Steve Echols wrote: flaming people who ask programming questions
But it's fun when we are grumpy
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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I just about clicked 'Abuse' on a message I had no intention of doing. I was dragging the mouse and sometimes my finger gets heavy (1600 pixels is a total drag).
It occurred to me that we should have grayed out (unvote, unspame, unabuse) links for messages that activate once we do any of the above. I'd have hated to vote this particular message spam it would have made me well ... okay so it's not that big of a deal ... okay so maybe it's not even worth bringing up ... okay I'll umm ... yeah I'm leaving ... right now ... so long, BYE!!!
Really though it may not be a bad idea...
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code-frog wrote: I just about clicked 'Abuse' on a message I had no intention of doing.
But it also pops up a JavaScript confirmation before the spam or abuse report actually is sent to the server!
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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We've done a lot of work to fix the minor niggles (and also the major ones). I just wanted to test the wind and get an idea from you all as to whether you feel the site is now fast enough and usable enough.
Apart from the tidy-ups we need to do (and the 5 minutes of outage here and there as we upload new versions), is everything going OK or are you still having major problems?
1 = Not so Good, 5 = Going Well So Far
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Speed has improved. RSS feeds via Google Reader are excellent although sometimes it is quicker to click the Google Reader link to a Lounge posting than to navigate to the Lounge from other forums. And I appreciate the "irony" comment on some error pages.
From time to time, when viewing an article in a new tab (mainly Firefox) it forgets by login status in the new tab but continues with my correct login status from the preceding tab.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Richard A. Abbott wrote: From time to time, when viewing an article in a new tab (mainly Firefox) it forgets by login status in the new tab
Hmm.
Do you open a new tab from a link on a current page, or open a new tab then go to the site directly by typing the address in the address bar?
When you refresh does it pick up your sign on?
Do you have "remember me" checked when you log on?
Are you waiting a good amount of time (over 20 mins) between viewing a page and opening a new tab from a link from that page?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I usually login from a button on the toolbar, or if I am ONLY using Google Reader, the lounge posting link, both no problems there.
From home page, I can right click and send to new tab an article for viewing. Intermittently, I get the warning that you must login, refreshing page in new tab don't help. Yet from the home page in the preceding tab I can navigate to any forum without loss of login status even if I right click and send to new tab any links on sidebars.
As said, it is intermittent.
Chris Maunder wrote: Do you have "remember me" checked when you log on?
Yes
Chris Maunder wrote: Are you waiting a good amount of time (over 20 mins) between viewing a page and opening a new tab from a link from that page?
No, not usually.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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I haven't had an error page come up, but the speed is still a bit dodgy during peak hours, but it has definitely improved.
Marc
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Chris Maunder wrote: 1 = Not so Good, 5 = Going Well So Far
I have two systems: one at work, the other at home.
At work: Going well so far. The speed is good. And clicking the Lounge main link won't give me an ASP error now.
Regarding to the clipboard issue, I will ask the IT guys at my company today.
At home: I have to verify tonight. The 10 Mbps DSL connection doesn't look like 10 Mbps. Accessing CP at home has been very slow these months. But it is fast while accessing other sites. Maybe it is because of poor routing to CP.
Maxwell Chen
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Its been good as gold only I cant email people with the email link in a post
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Chris,
Great job ! Speed is good for me. Message boards loads much faster than ASP version. But the HTML tags showing in mails (message board reply) still exist.
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Chris,
First, we should all appreciate you and your team for the real hard work and countless sleepless nights you guys have put in and that too during the New Year Seasons in bringing in the best possible user experience in the website, patiently listening to the zillions of emails that kept pounding your SMTP hamster.
The speed and performance has definitely improved in good leaps and bounds in relative to what it had been during the stage of deployment.
Instead of just voting your Feedback in beguile mundane arithmetic figures like 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, we wish you good luck in more success in bringing more features and enriching experience at http://www.codeproject.com/[^]
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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The slowness is sporadic or the number online being < 9000 is sporadic?
I'm in Australia at the moment and the site is blazingly fast for me. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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