Bugs and Suggestions

11-May-10 2:30

daveauld wrote:
so whoever did that, thanks for the generosity

You're welcome. Sorry, but I got distracted otherwise I'd have done more.

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Suggestion: Mandatory Message While Change Previous Vote in Articles

Abhijit Jana10-May-10 6:35

Abhijit Jana

10-May-10 6:35

Like Vote 1 and Vote 2, is it possible to ask a mandatory message while some member changes their existing vote?

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Re: Suggestion: Mandatory Message While Change Previous Vote in Articles

Chris Maunder11-May-10 3:02

Re: Suggestion: Mandatory Message While Change Previous Vote in Articles

11-May-10 3:02

There is for articles.

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Abhijit Jana12-May-10 1:30

Abhijit Jana

12-May-10 1:30

This mean, If I down vote some article ( I have voted 5 earlier and now want to give 3 ) Message it mandatory ?

How to test ? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Feature request: message board ignore list

Moak10-May-10 1:25

10-May-10 1:25

Hi,
it would be nice to have a personal ignore list like in other forums:

Postings from users on this personal blacklist will be ignored or marked (e.g. greyed out subject Message from this user ignored). The motivation behind this feature request is that there are members who stick out negatively. For example members who repeatedly repost the same questions or delete their posts. With thousands of members it's just human to have a few that can't follow the community guidelines or are just plain annoying. Wink | ;)

I know that you can vote down messages, when it is repeatedly the same user and talking to him hasn't helped then I would prefer to ignore this user's messages automatically in the future.

Just a suggestion.
/Moak

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Pete O'Hanlon10-May-10 2:06

10-May-10 2:06

Moak wrote:
I know that you can vote down messages, when it is repeatedly the same user and talking to him hasn't helped then I would prefer to ignore this user's messages automatically in the future.

What happens when the user gets sufficient experience that they start asking questions that you are interested in? Suppose they've answered something correctly and you have the same problem - you'd no longer see the solution.

Also, this would place yet more strain on the CP servers because each user would have their own list. Another point to consider is what the effect this would have if you ignore a user who posts a message; would you want to ignore all the replies as well?

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Dan Neely10-May-10 2:25

Dan Neely

10-May-10 2:25

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Another point to consider is what the effect this would have if you ignore a user who posts a message; would you want to ignore all the replies as well?

And then there are replies to replies, and replies to replies to replies, and etc....

Eventually the subject is likely to become something other than troll bait; the lack of any good way to implement this has kept me from ever using a killfile back in the usenet era.

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2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Moak10-May-10 2:53

10-May-10 2:53

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
What happens when the user gets sufficient experience that they start asking questions that you are interested in?

I can live with that. Then there is always the possibility to revise your decision later for individual users. From my experience with other forums, people don't end up being blacklisted quickly but usually stay there for a long time. A ignore list will not stand in the way of users changing their behaviour.

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
would you want to ignore all the replies as well?

No, the point is filtering text from disruptive people not to ban them for the whole community. From my experience with other forums this works even very well in long threads, it gives you a strong indications to read on or not.

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Pete O'Hanlon10-May-10 3:50

10-May-10 3:50

Moak wrote:
A ignore list will not stand in the way of users changing their behaviour.

No, but if you don't see them then you don't get to see that their behaviour has improved.

Moak wrote:
No, the point is filtering text from disruptive people not to ban them for the whole community. From my experience with other forums this works even very well in long threads, it gives you a strong indications to read on or not.

And you end up losing context. Ultimately, you can see the user name easily, so just ignore them if you want to.

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Moak10-May-10 4:39

10-May-10 4:39

Pete this is just a suggestion with additional features for those who want to use it, nobody is forced to use it. Smile | :)

Let's assume for a moment you want to use it, it will give you new possibilities to ignore, unignore users, see ignored messages on a extra click (details depend on technical implementation, but that's how it works in other forums). As long as someone is on your personal ignore list, it's a concious decision that this user is more disruptive than helpful. With a ignore list you gain productivity and a more relaxing time. If you don't want to use it, nothing changes from your perspective.

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Pete O'Hanlon11-May-10 1:12

11-May-10 1:12

I agree, but I think there are bigger things for Chris and co to focus on hence the alternative viewpoint - I really don't see it as that big an improvement, but if we all agreed with each other all the time, this would be a really crappy site.

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Chris Maunder13-May-10 2:59

13-May-10 2:59

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
but if we all agreed with each other all the time, this would be a really crappy site

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Chris Maunder13-May-10 3:01

13-May-10 3:01

I know there are some who would like it but it would not, in my opinion, be a highly used feature and would create more issues than it would solve. Well, issues for us, in any case Wink | ;)

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Moak13-May-10 3:19

13-May-10 3:19

I totally agree, it is a 'nice to have feature' not an urgent one. Should have said that. Smile | :)

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How Long Does It Take?

#realJSOP10-May-10 0:16

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10-May-10 0:16

When you post a tip/trick, the Date Posted doesn't actually show the date until some time after it was posted. For instance, I posted one on Saturday, and today the date posted reads "2 days ago". I personally think this serves no beneficial purpose as opposed to just posting the date.

The reason I'm asking is that it makes scraping the data (specifically, the date posted) a bit more problematic because now I have to have two different parsing methods and the possibility of having to do date math.

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Luc Pattyn10-May-10 3:04

Luc Pattyn

10-May-10 3:04

IMO you won't win this one. Just check for "ago" and take it from there.

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Chris Maunder11-May-10 3:15

11-May-10 3:15

Why do you say that? Confused | :confused:

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Luc Pattyn11-May-10 3:29

Luc Pattyn

11-May-10 3:29

1. for small timespans relative time is easier to humans than absolute time
2. easy scraping is not very relevant, those pages are for human consumption.
3. consistency; articles, forums, Q&A, T&T all should use the same.

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Chris Maunder11-May-10 3:15

11-May-10 3:15

For Tips n Tricks I think you're right: we should be showing absolute dates, no relative, since tips are less time sensitive than Q & A's.

You're just really trying to get me to finalise the API, aren't you? Wink | ;)

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Not able to add comments (again)

#realJSOP11-May-10 8:46

#realJSOP

11-May-10 8:46

Yep - you're onto my nefarious plans. I must now change tactics. DAMN YOU, MAUNDER! Smile | :)

Ankur^\m/9-May-10 19:28

Ankur^\m/

9-May-10 19:28

I am not able to add comment to this[^] answer. This was reported before but we were able to add comments to the posts after sometime so it was not a considered a bug I guess. But it is happening again. Unsure | :~

Anyone facing same issue?

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modified on Monday, May 10, 2010 1:34 AM

Re: Not able to add comments (again)

Matthew Dennis10-May-10 5:02

Matthew Dennis

10-May-10 5:02

I am trying to track down why you are having issues with adding comments.

Were you having problems with your Internet connection at the time, such as very slow response.
Did you disable JavaScript?
Were you connected at a different location than normal?

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Re: Not able to add comments (again)

Ankur^\m/10-May-10 18:18

Ankur^\m/

10-May-10 18:18

Matthew Dennis wrote:
Did you disable JavaScript?
Were you connected at a different location than normal?

No.

Matthew Dennis wrote:
Were you having problems with your Internet connection at the time, such as very slow response.

Internet speed was comparatively slower than the normal at that time. But then I could access every other page properly.

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Q/A Comments Suggestion

#realJSOP9-May-10 1:15

#realJSOP

9-May-10 1:15

Can we get a darker border around them? I can hardly see the border, and the comments are starting to look like one great big giant blob of text.

Re: Q/A Comments Suggestion

Chris Maunder16-May-10 5:24