Bugs and Suggestions

Jochen Arndt3-Jul-14 22:02

3-Jul-14 22:02

Similar here at work with FF and Win7 but not at home with identical software (but a faster system).

Just move around with your mouse until the popup stays on screen. There is no need to click anywhere. When you move slowly around you will notice that the popup disappears when over the border lines of the top rectangle. Moving faster to cross the rectangle's bottom line often helps.

Rage3-Jul-14 22:12

3-Jul-14 22:12

mmmhh, there *might* be a more intuitive way. Also, something must have changed in the behavior, because I have been moderating for quite some time now, and never had any usability problem with that particular menu.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Jochen Arndt4-Jul-14 4:49

4-Jul-14 4:49

I just checked it at home and there is a difference:

At work there is a rectangle around the top (n items need approval / n articles, m blogs, o tips/tricks) but here at home there is only one big rectangle around the whole popup (the line that has to be crossed fast is not present).

So it seems that the problem is sourced by some Firefox setting. Did you change anything?

Rage4-Jul-14 5:05

4-Jul-14 5:05

I did not. But my company may.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Chris Maunder5-Jul-14 16:27

5-Jul-14 16:27

Jochen Arndt wrote:
Did you change anything

Nothing changed our end.

Can you send me a screenshot? (chris at codeproject.com)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Jochen Arndt6-Jul-14 21:09

6-Jul-14 21:09

Chris Maunder wrote:
Can you send me a screenshot?

Done.

Jochen Arndt7-Jul-14 1:03

7-Jul-14 1:03

I have identified the source:

This happens when the hardware acceleration is disabled in the extended configuration tab. After enabling it (requires restarting Firefox) all is OK now here at work.

Maybe Chris will find a solution with disabled acceleration.

Chris Maunder8-Jul-14 15:03

Voting rules are leading to false results

8-Jul-14 15:03

I'm placing that firmly in the "Firfox Bug" bin. Sorry Frown | :(

cheers
Chris Maunder

KarstenK3-Jul-14 21:34

3-Jul-14 21:34

if I wanna give 1 up to 3 stars the website wants me to give some remarks. This stops me from voting honestly, and in the result I only vote for 4 or 5 stars. So the rating goes up. Your Business case Mad | :mad:

I understand the stars that

1 poor, avoid reading (here is an answer really needed)
2 not too bad
3 average as the most
4 a better one
5 outstanding, the author did a great job. Blush | :O

I guess many others peoples have the same experience and it is an old discussion.

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

Rage3-Jul-14 21:40

3-Jul-14 21:40

KarstenK wrote:
This stops me from voting honestly

Why ? If you put a negative vote, then please also explain why.

KarstenK wrote:
in the result I only vote for 4 or 5 stars

So you vote something a 5 when you think it deserves a 1 because you are too lazy to drop a comment explaining why the article deserves a 1 ? The real question is here : who is behaving inappropriately, CodeProject, or you ?

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

KarstenK3-Jul-14 22:03

3-Jul-14 22:03

you didnt read what i wrote. 1 stars needs some explanation, but 2/2 stars, below or average.

What should I write?

My point is that it stops from voting less than 4 stars, and so the average is misleading.

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

Rage3-Jul-14 22:10

3-Jul-14 22:10

KarstenK wrote:
What should I write?

What prevented you from voting a 4 or a 5. A ... remark.

KarstenK wrote:
y point is that it stops from voting less than 4 stars

No way, you may also don't vote at all if you are too lazy to drop a comment. No one forces you to vote articles. And voting a 5 because you do not want to drop a comment for a 2 or a 3 is just plain nonsense, I hope you realize that.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

KarstenK3-Jul-14 22:48

3-Jul-14 22:48

OK. Thats fine.

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

Nelek5-Jul-14 4:54

Nelek

5-Jul-14 4:54

Rage wrote:
And voting a 5 because you do not want to drop a comment for a 2 or a 3 is just plain nonsense, I hope you realize that.

I think you didn't understand him.

He didn't say that he gives a 5 in places where a 1 is deserved.

He said that he does only vote 4 or 5 (where they are deserved), but doesn't give 3 or less votes.

It is not the same

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Chris Maunder6-Jul-14 15:05

6-Jul-14 15:05

If you're not willing to provide a reason you downvoted then I would prefer you don't vote at all. Telling smeone their article isn't great doesn't achieve anything if you don't also provide information on how the author can make their article better to avoid downvotes.

cheers
Chris Maunder

KarstenK14-Jul-14 20:46

How do I delete my CodeProject account

14-Jul-14 20:46

I dont want to discuss much about, because I dont want invest to much effort in it, but if I see such article I get a little disturbed about this discussion. It indicates that I am righter than you..

(The articles got 2 votes, which are resulting to an average of 4.67)

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

KernelNinja2-Jul-14 19:18

KernelNinja

2-Jul-14 19:18

There seems to be so way to do that using the Web UI ?

#realJSOP3-Jul-14 2:36

#realJSOP

3-Jul-14 2:36

0) Stand behind your chair (if you stand in front of it, this won't work)

1) Come up with a suitable chant that appears meaningless to passers-by

2) Wave your arms with flourish and style (remember to extend your arms, straighten your fingers and maintain a fluid motion at all times)

3) after about 30 seconds, shout "ACCOUNT BE GONE!"

4) If that didn't work, sit down so you don't look like too much of a retard.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

modified 5-Jul-14 12:48pm.

Chris Maunder3-Jul-14 2:51

3-Jul-14 2:51

OK, that's scary, because his account is now gone.

How long did it take you to work that one out?

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP3-Jul-14 3:16

#realJSOP

3-Jul-14 3:16

I'm a haxor with l33t skillz, fo shizzle.

Comments on blogs in moderation queue

DaveAuld3-Jul-14 22:47

DaveAuld

3-Jul-14 22:47

Are you sure he was actually wanting his account deleted, after all it said "How Do I" not "Please delete my account"? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

OriginalGriff2-Jul-14 6:01

OriginalGriff

2-Jul-14 6:01

This blog: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=131643&aid=792410[^]
has some HTML characters comeing through to teh txt:

agree on what’s the difference

and some HTML comments:

<!-- Cached "rss-item" item from 2014-07-02 09:47:46 --> Clocks in computers

showing in the text - but I can't comment on it until it's approved, so I can't tell him there is a problem, or why it might be rejected.
I can understand it, but there should be some mechanism for saying "this looks very wrong on CodeProject because..." rather than giving it a generic "formatting required" vote.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Re: Comments on blogs in moderation queue

Sean Ewington2-Jul-14 7:16

Sean Ewington

2-Jul-14 7:16

I think the "format and layout" report applies. It looks like those HTML characters were in the original document and the article editor simply didn't like it. I cleaned it all up.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Site API

#realJSOP2-Jul-14 2:23

#realJSOP

2-Jul-14 2:23

Back a few years ago, there was talk of creating a web service that would allow us to write apps that retrieved our reputation points and other info. Was that ever developed/released, or are we still relegated to scraping HTML for the data?

Re: Site API

Chris Maunder2-Jul-14 6:37