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That makes perfect sense.
As someone who initialed posted a few articles, posted a bit, then didn't even hit the site for more that a year, before returning to activity with a vengance I guess I would be a prime example of someone who skews the figures if you try to assess active membership.
Thanks Chris
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Chris Maunder wrote: This is the $64,000 question
I always like to attempt and answer those.
How about this: award participation points for fetching an article page; deactivate accounts that have constant total rep over some period of time (say 1 year); and omit them from the members count.
So your read-only account gets deactivated unless he (occasionally) logs in for reading; if he does not, he has to reactivate his account or create a new one. You could even send an e-mail that his account is going to be deactivated as it seems unused, giving him the opportunity to still rectify the situation.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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I second that motion. That seems like a good solution. The old programming forum VBIP (closed down now) used that technique (awarding points for viewing articles)
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I'm not going to deactivate someone's account simply because they haven't read an article in a year. That's arbitrary and punitive.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I see you want to hold on to those 64K$.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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As this is a programming site, how about a programming style solution? Treat the accounts like they are weak references - if somebody doesn't perform any site activity for a period of time then "garbage collect" their accounts. When they eventually do log back in then the account gets resurrected. This way you get a more accurate count of users.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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Nah. Calling all those alter ego's garbage, I can't appreciate that.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Just found one here[^]. I've deleted it but thought I'd make you aware that it's happening again.
Two more here[^].
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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There are lots of them spamming through QA.
It's time for a new signature.
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They keep Popping Up!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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I very nearly put that in my OP.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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This is never ending list.... I don't know who and why they are doing this. . And why Q&A
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They are intelligent. Last time they created ID's with viagra/cialis/levitra in them.
Now since that has been taken care of, they are here with random_charaters@random_characters.com
I am curious how this is handled.
*minor edit
..Go Green..
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I've reported on one of the answers by this user [^], but it appears that he has posted a few others.
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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I've put a cork in it for now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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See Here[^]
Dave Auld had given a good reply to the question, and I tried to comment on it.
The comment box opened and I typed a 'good tip, I might try it' sort of comment.
On hitting the post button below it the box evaporated into the ether and the comment was glaringly absent.
Dunno if it is just me, just that page or something deeper and perhaps more malevolent.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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This problem was there sometime back and has been solved.
Hit Ctrl+F5 and try again (hey I am serious this time).
..Go Green..
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was your comment sufficiently substantial? in order to evaporate in ether, I suspect it was really volatile.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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shucks you can just buy me a pint next time
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I too have been unable to make comments recently. I tried to post a comment reply to CG's comment here, but it evaporated. I navigated away, came back, and pressed CTRL+F5 and no dice. My comment just up and ran off.
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Location: Section:
Either:
add to Platform: a new sub-menu-item: Windows Azure
or create a new Section:
Windows Azure
+ Windows Azure Storage
+ SQL Azure
+ AppFabric
Jeff in Seattle
Interests:
Dating my spouse, Playing with my daughter, and Camping in my SportsMobile.
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PHP is an active language within the Windows community.
I have a couple of requests pertaining support for PHP article submissions:
Location: Section: Pulldown menu
Under Languages, add PHP sub-menu-item
Article Tags
Under Languages, add PHP check-box
PRE tag
For HTML tag PRE, provide support for PHP:
<br />
<pre lang="PHP"><br />
Thanks
Jeff in Seattle
Jeff in Seattle
Interests:
Dating my spouse, Playing with my daughter, and Camping in my SportsMobile.
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php is for script kiddies
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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I have been programming in C++, C#, and Java for years.
But for front-end web development, PHP rocks!
Jeff in Seattle
Interests:
Dating my spouse, Playing with my daughter, and Camping in my SportsMobile.
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