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Or at the very least a persisted preference option that says "hide all sports posts".
How to implement? Scan for words like "world cup", rugby, cricket and nuke 'em.
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The threads could add tag support. That way people starting threads on cricket, football, or tennis could just use the right tag, and people who don't want tos ee those threads can use the ignore-thread-by-tag feature (which they'd also have to write then) 
They already have the framework to do this (for the QA forum), so the regular forums could probably borrow from that.
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Who's a clever bunny then!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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As long as the titles are not actually deceptive, it's not hard to skip over them.
I am also anti sports, but it's a perfectly valid topic for the lounge. It's not as if there's not plenty of other lounge activity I skip over.
CCC's
Drunken ramblings.
xxxOTD...
I woz headbanging at heavy metal.
But I don't object to their presence.
I do think putting scores in titles is in poor taste. The only people who'll care will be made unhappy. But that practice stopped.
What next... No Olympics?
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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500 characters is rather restrictive for a sig if one wants to properly format and provide some links. Any chance we get some more? Could we trade 300 chars for some rep points? Right now I have to cut some words...
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Wanna' rent some of my unused sig? Maybe even for some rep points.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Thanks for your kind offer. I'll wait for some more before I make a decision. Don't call us, we'll call you.
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problem kinda solved for now. Thanks.
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No Luc, you need to be more creative than that.
1. Using classes you can make your sig be essentially the same with 60 less characters
2. Using relative links you can make your sig be exactly the same with 50 less characters, though the links won't work in forum email notifications (however, a simple fix my end will fix this).
3. Doing both gives you an extra 110 characters.
4. I can see a fairly obvious further 100 characters that can go since I already have that particular link bookmarked.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks.
1 is a mystery to me. Are you referring to pre-defined classes? is there a way to have a macro-like functionality, so all hyperlinks get a more compact code?
2 I did. Is OK.
3 = 1+2
4: others may click too.
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You can use class="callout align-center" instead of the inline style you're using. As to compact links, there are plenty of tinyurl provider sites out there that may help.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, got over 100 chars free now.
Are callout and align-center your classes? (they are not present in my books!)
are they documented somewhere?
guaranteed to survive site changes?
OK for relevant browsers?
what happens to existing messages when you change those classes?
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Luc Pattyn wrote:
Are callout and align-center your classes? (they are not present in my books!)
They are ours.
are they documented somewhere?
No. That would make things too easy.
guaranteed to survive site changes?
Highly likely to, but definitely not guaranteed. Very few things in life are guaranteed. Sometimes you just have to let go and take a risk.
OK for relevant browsers?
Yes
what happens to existing messages when you change those classes?
The end of life as we know it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you very much. I've located their definition now. I am using callout with reduced margin (I don't like wasting space). I think I'm done sig-wise for the moment.
I'm not going to use tinyURL and the like; I understood they are temporary. And they do create extra dependencies.
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It took me a while, but now I realize the big disadvantage of div class="callout" is it doesn't work in the notification e-mails CP sends.
Unless you would automatically add the corresponding style definition...
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Not sure I can justify having the callout style in everyone's inbox 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Sure.
However IMO you could substitute the appropriate style="..." for the existing class="callout..."
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Yes you could.
If you had the space
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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And you could, automatically, when creating the e-mail message.
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I see in your list of recent changes that you fixed a problem with comments, and that you are currently working on improving the comment system...but I haven't been able to post a comment for at least a week now so I thought I'd mention it in case it's something no one else has let you know about. I press Add Comment and the box comes up. I type in a comment then press submit comment and the box closes but the comment doesn't appear below the question like it used to. If I hit Add Comment again my message is still in the textbox. I'm using IE8. Java is on.
Thanks.
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One common issue we've seen is an old cached version of the script. Can you try Ctrl+F5 on the page you wish to comment, then try commenting again?
Our usual cache busting doesn't seem to have worked
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I looked, but can't find a way. I want to delete this article (it was my "tough questions" experiment that didn't work as planned).
Problem: WCF Web Service on a Secure Server[^]
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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The Delete button on the article should do it.
You currently have it locked for editing so I can't help you at the moment. Lemme know if you want me to nuke it for you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Lemme know if you want me to nuke it for you.
I think you're gonna have to. I don't see a delete button *anywhere*. 
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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