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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I could vote someone back to the reputation stoneage if I wanted to.
Yeah, I remember last week's thread about this[^] from the Lounge. 
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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No John, a down-voter does not earn rep points. It used to be so for a very short time, but that acted like an open invitation to uni-voters, so Chris modified it. The FAQ is correct on the subject: for every organizer source, it either says "up-vote" or "report", but not "down-vote".
My suggestion on the subject has been to indeed reward downvotes also, but only for sufficiently reputed voters. I want a scoring system to be as symmetrical as it can be.
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In the Q&A section,
In the right hand side, it says: "Your status enables you to edit or delete this question".
But when I tried deleting this[^], I am given a message - You do not have sufficient rights to delete (or something similar).
The user created two posts for the same question. Here[^]!
[Update]
Seems someone has deleted the post. The first link is not valid now.
[/Update]
..Go Green..
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I've walked through it and I can't see any reason why this would be the case, unless someone deleted it while you were viewing, meaning you no longer had the ability to delete it.
If it happens again please let me know.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I don't think the post was already deleted when I was trying because it was a non-authorized error. Moreover after sometime when it was deleted, I got the error that post was already deleted (I had a window opened).
Anyways, I will inform if it happens again.
Thanks!
..Go Green..
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I've added it to the bug list in any case.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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While writing my last article: Native WPF 4 PropertyGrid[^], I tried to specify the Workflow Foundation (WF) category, but I just found WCF and WPF. I also found AppFabric, which is not the same as WF.
Best regards,
Jaime.
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Hello Chris,
I mean a different feature.
It is related to the "Article Tags" you define for an article: a bunch of checkboxes in 5 columns.
In the "Technology" column, there is WPF, WCF and AppFabric, but not WF.
Best regards,
Jaime.
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It's now there (in the "Topics" column. It will be moved soon)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Good catch.
It seems to be the same site; the home page is up-to-date, and article view counts for both URLs track each other. Did Chris take over DNS? is this a result of IPv4 running out of addresses?
To be continued, no doubt.
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It's been around since 11th of Dec 09[^].
I don't reckon an official statement on this issue from a CP staff or Chris M until today .
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Just a DNS thing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is there any way to get it straightened out? who is in charge of such things?
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A guy named "Sparky", who's office is located in a converted Minuteman missile silo somewhere in the mid-western United States. Don't go looking for him because you won't find him. If he had a static IP address, it would be 0.0.0.1, and he's been down there since DARPA started the NIPRNet.
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Thanks, John. I'll contact mister Sparky and tell him he should get his act together. If necessary I'll pay him a visit. My other sources have told me already that IP address, and some related ones, are located in Riverside,CA at (lat 33.9469, long -117.3960); with my special Google Earth plug-in I can see there's only four Minutemen at that location, so that wouldn't take long.
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Straightened out? No. Worked around? Yes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Wouldn't it be possible to detect the URL and redirect to codeproject.com?
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I understood both http://digital-clipart.de/ and http://www.codeproject.com/ are already pointing to the same IP address, by some mistake in the .de DNS tables; so I would expect the German registrars should be made aware and asked to remove such definition.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I understood both http://digital-clipart.de/ and http://www.codeproject.com/ are already pointing to the same IP address, by some mistake in the .de DNS tables; so I would expect the German registrars should be made aware and asked to remove such definition.
Not specific to digital clipart, but anyone can point their domains to CP's IP address (for whatever reasons they have). So I was wondering if there could be code that would detect the URL, see if it's codeproject.com and if it's not, then redirect to codeproject.com.
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Yes, and this code is already part of our system, but we have it turned off to give us some flexibility in other areas.
Easy enough to turn it back on...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: some flexibility in other areas
as in someLetter.codeproject.com? where someLetter is some letter, Latin or Greek?
you might check there is codeproject.com in there, and show a mysterious error page when there isn't.
however, IMO all this is just curing symptoms, not fixing the cause of the German masquerade.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: not fixing the cause of the German masquerade.
You cannot fix the cause. One reason people do it is for an improved google rank. Example, I register supercodefromspace.com and redirect it to CP's IP (via DNS). I post a few links around the web till Google picks on it, and I wait for Google to think that it's a mirror domain. My domain's page rank shoots up immediately, at which point, I set up a script/cgi so that any page request on my domain shows an ad or two. If I am smart I retain the CP page content and insert my ads all around the page. Lots of traffic, ads, and money. It's kinda parasitic but in a passive way since Chris and CP are not really affected. But it's still unethical and so the url-detection and redirect-to-regular-domain trick will prevent people from doing this.
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Wow. I never looked at it in that way. So I would definitely check "codeprojec.com" is present in the URL before presenting the page content.
Thanks for the insight.
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