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I am very curious to see what was written in the [message deleted] posts, especially when there are angry replies. You should just delete everything including the replies because the curiosity kills me.
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It makes clicking links seem less futile. Also, it adds an element of mystery to the whole "forum experience". Yeah...
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Shog9 wrote: It makes clicking links seem less futile. Also, it adds an element of mystery to the whole "forum experience". Yeah...
It's so hard to write sarcasm because the whole tone-of-voice thing is missing. Are you sure people understand that you're serious about this?
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Does it matter?
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That also adds an element of mystery to the whole "forum experience". Yeah...
What's in a sig?
This statement is false.
Build a bridge and get over it. ~ Chris Maunder
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I don't like the censor either, but if there are replies then I don't want to see the whole thing deleted. It might be possible to create a purgatory forum that the thread can be moved to if it was started by a post that is ultimately marked as spam or abuse.
Actually, what irritates me the most is that Kyle's actions forced legitimate long time members like Jörgen to spell his name incorrectly in order to maintain an account. If that were me then I'd treat that as the ultimate insult.
The other thing that irritates me is that Kyle used to restrict himself to the Soapbox (which admittedly spends most of its time in the gutter) and he was easy to ignore there. Now he is infecting the Lounge with his antics.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: It might be possible to create a purgatory forum that the thread can be moved to if it was started by a post that is ultimately marked as spam or abuse.
Thats a great idea. Just put the messages in the stream that goes to mud lake.
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You think it's bad? I'm a cat!
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Trollslayer wrote: You think it's bad? I'm a cat!
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As you, I am curious to find out what's behind the [message deleted], because I sure have somethign to say about it!
And that's the whole point of it. Stopping the replies to the post. The suspense kills me, but it is for the better of the country whole site.
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I would love to have an RSS feed for new messages in each forum. To one-up that, it'd be even better if there were a way for users to create an aggregated feed with only the forums we care about. For instance, I might be interested in C# and ASP.NET forums while someone else might be interested in Visual C++/MFC, ATL/WTL/STL, and (Managed) C++/CLI forums. This capability is in most popular forums now-a-days.
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Dear Chris,
I've made too much tentatives to explain on the VC++ forum that the <pre> tag should be used instead of the <code> one for posting code samples, but i must reckon that this is not intuitive. but i think a simple work-around would be to simply change the caption/picture on the 2 buttons which set the styles...
on the "pre" button, write "code" instead, even if the pre bloc is copied actuall finally, i think it will prevent some "read the posting guidelines" messages
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I think the problem is only with beginner posters. Most of us realized the pre tag early on (after getting flamed ).
But, I agree it would be a good thing.
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ednrgc wrote: I think the problem is only with beginner posters
but most of the fast/simple (and sometimes stupid) questions are from beginners, so let's keep the CSS up
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toxcct wrote: but most of the fast/simple (and sometimes stupid)
Those are usually mine
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ednrgc wrote: Those are usually mine
lol. i don't care, as long as you use <pre>
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I have a suggestion that its better that we separation(of course Chris) insert a editbox for insert code like signature of each member when someone enter code on this section it automatics insert two tags pre and code to his code
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i don't like this, because we can have the need of posting several blocs of code sometimes...
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I've no idea how much work it would be - server side - to identify <code> elements with embedded newlines and convert them to <pre> blocks, but it would probably be the most foolproof method of handling this.
But failing that, i think it'd be a fine idea to ditch the <code> button entirely, and label the <pre> button code . I don't think too many people use the <code> tag correctly anyway (except for myself... and i make my own buttons).
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i was as strict as "ditching" the <code> button, but why not, if that permits posts to have a better formatting...
Shog9 wrote: it would probably be the most foolproof method of handling this.
it could in at the same time transform the < into < and etc into ode samples; but there's certainly too much work there.
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toxcct wrote: it could in at the same time transform the < into <
...and insert a space on blank lines That one killed me until I finally asked.
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When we mark a message as spam or abusive, it also is voted 1. It is shown after clicking. My suggestion is that the same could be shown in the tool tip too, like "Mark this as spam (and vote 1)".
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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Hi All,
With respect to the site upgrade:
At times it can desireable to add a second or third page to an article so that the Article does not become cluttered. The additional pages could be used to expand on points in the main article, but does not neccessarily constitute another article. (I realize this is not required for a lot of articles - such as the screen shot articles with a note 'download to see the source').
Would it be possible to add additional pages to an article, much like ones adds GIFs, PNGs, and ZIP files?
Jeff
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Oh, please no. I hate paged articles - my page up / page down keys never work properly to navigate them.
Of course, if a large article can be split neatly into smaller articles, that's just fine.
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I think it would be a better solution to have the article contain
- download links
- introduction
- table of contents
- message board
Each link in the table of contents then would navigate to the appropriate section in the article content file, which contains the download links, introduction and content. That would also make the message board on large articles better visible.
Maybe a server-side script could do this automatically for articles that are at least X non-whitespace content characters (don't count HTML tags and attributes) long?
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