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If user wants to give any unsuitable content, then they can also do that by third party drop sites. And it will require moderation.
Instead we can make this functionality in CP, so that we would be having the image alongwith the question (not external image links).
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Providing links is already possible, and already moderated. Plus I have the choice to open or not open a link, and can preview where this goes to. In all cases, surfing CP is safe.
Your request implies:
1. that the CP content could not be safe anymore, eg, I cannot open a CP page anymore without a risk of NSFW pictures displayed ( and that will happen, trust me).
2. that something for which a solution already exists must be rethought, with extra implementation and extra moderation.
No, thanks.
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If you really need a "screenshot" to include with your whatever: then why don't you do a screen-capture on your own computer, open it, and crop-it, so only what is relevant appears, then put it on-line in the cloud somewhere (like Picasa, DropBox, or whatever) and post a link to it in your question or comment.
That gives the CP user the option to view the screenshot or not.
If CP allowed the inclusion of pictures, screen-shots, etc., it would be a mad-house rather than a fun-house
best, Bill
"If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer ?" Stephen Wright
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In my profile, I set my company name to "Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion", but after I save it, it is truncated to "Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism".
Who ever heard of SPECT?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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You should have gone to SPECT Savers.
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You sir are a cad.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Who ever heard of SPECT? I don't 'spect anyone did.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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I'm not even going to answer this one.
(oh, hang on... dammit!)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Change your company name to something shorter...
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It now says "President, Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terror"
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It's terrible! Where's the revenge and extortion?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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The word terror is more comprehensive and includes revenge and extortion.
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The best I could get is - SpExec @CounterIntelli,Terrorism,Revenge,Extortion
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Have you clicked the "show minor revisions" button on the page listing the revisions?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Minor revisions section is showing 9 revisions. Revision page is reflecting 6 revisions and the article home page is showing 8 revisions. Could you please clarify how the number of revisions is calculated.
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Excellent point!
Elina found and fixed the issue.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks Chris and Elina !!
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In the process of resetting my password, I clicked on the first 'The Code Project' link in the e-mail I received. It brought me to the site, already logged in. I assumed I was logged with the temporary password.
However, when I tried to change my password using the temporary password as 'Current Password', I got the following error message: "Unable to update password. Please ensure you provide the corrent current or temporary password."
I assume the link in the e-mail connected me with my old password.
To be able to change my password I had to sign out
and then manually connect with the temporary password (not using the link in the e-mail). I could then use the temporary password as "Current Password".
Also, note the typo in the error message: "corrent" instead of "correct".
Xavier Stévenne
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I am wondering if there are plans to finally roll out support for allowing article writers to moderate comments on their article. Of course I don't expect that all us authors will get ability to moderate - but if you are above certain threshold, you should be able to moderate.
And not only this would allow good article writers to easily battle with trolls and content that's simply not appropriate on the page where there article is - it would be good motivation to keep writing.
(Admins, I have same thread in Lounge, please delete it)
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I don't agree with this. What's to stop someone with a high enough rep removing legitimate comments on their article? Just because someone has a high rep doesn't mean that they are always right, or that they will always behave honourably. Sorry, but this gets my vote of no.
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No, I'm not going to allow authors to delete comments on their articles. That totally invalidates the ability for members to objectively and independantly review others' code, as well as making it impossible for readers to gauge the relevance of the comments they are reading.
You've made the request in order to remove trolls and spammers, and this is a genuinely good reason to provide this feature. However, the flip side is that authors will be tempted to, and often will, remove those comments they don't feel are fair, accurate, or of their liking. And unfortunately the definition of fair, accurate, and to one's liking is extremely subjective. It is far more beneficial to readers to see a debate on differing approaches, as well as seeing genuine issues and objections being raised, than it is to see a comments board sanitised.
Every message posted on every message board includes the ability to have that message marked as spam or as abusive, and enough votes results in the message, and any associated vote, being removed. We also have a Spam and Abuse forum[^] for reporting instances of spam or abuse.
The community should be in charge of judging and removing spam and abuse, not a single member.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I somewhat expected this kind of response. But I guess it was worth a shot since I truly enjoyed writing articles on CodeProject and would love if I could still do that, only without getting trolled.
Speaking of current system I would love if it worked. But it doesn't - there are posts with more than 5 negative votes and they are STILL showing up in the timeline; aren't hidden or grayed out. I understand that site benefits from more visits, trolling and flame wars - but what is completely ignored is the time and energy of the author; majority of them just gives up checking on comments and accept that their effort will be ___ on. Here are some examples - you tell me if they are really adding any real value to articles or are "beneficial to readers":
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4338474/My-vote-of-1-Useless.aspx[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Messages.aspx?fmid=2219960[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3537485/My-vote-of-1.aspx[^]
I really wanted to talk more about this, but as I see status quo will be upheld - I don't want to put more emotion and time into this.
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