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No, it would just flood all the other lounge threads down to page 9 after a day or two.
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Michael wanted a sticky thread, not a sticky message. 
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A colleague of mine mentioned today that having discussions/blogging/etc can be harmful when it comes time to get a new job, because HR people search for you online to see what your personal views are. They can then silently use that information against you, "Sorry, the position has been filled (...and you're a liberal hipster with a pet cobra)."
What better place to look up how someone thinks about a wide range of topics than to go to that person's CP profile and view their message history log! I think that the message log should be restricted to CP members only. At least that would make it more of an effort for some HR person to snoop around. Perhaps there could also be a constraint, such as, you can't view a message log until you've been a member for a day or week.
What do you think?
:josh:
My WPF Blog[^]
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No way. I firmly believe if you're going to post something in a public forum you should be willing to stand by it. Too many times people assume they are anonymous or not subject to social niceties simply because they are on the other end of an ethernet cable. I'm very much against absolving people of responsibility for their own actions.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm very much against absolving people of responsibility for their own actions.
That wasn't my objective, really. I agree that people shouldn't feel free to go around posting that people are a-holes and c-suckers. I am more concerned with an innocent statement such as "I think the war with Iraq is unnecessary." Political views like that are the type of thing that an HR person can use to filter out resumes, based on his/her personal views. There's no need to be absolved of a statement like that, it's just an opinion.
But, in the end, it's your site, so, whatever.
:josh:
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Josh Smith wrote:
What do you think?
If you don't want somebody to read it, then don't post it on the internet. I actually like that potential employeers can read what I write here at CP. Anybody who doesn't want to hire me because of my views isn't the kind of person I want to work for anyway.
Michael
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Michael P Butler wrote: Anybody who doesn't want to hire me because of my views isn't the kind of person I want to work for anyway.
When interviewing at a small company I agree with that. But when interviewing at a large company that idea doesn't pan out because the person who is filtering resumes has nothing to do with the job for which a developer applies. The HR people are the ones I'm concerned about, not the dev managers. What if they see that candidate X is "against Bush" or whatever and, out of personal spite, throw away his resume? Just a thought.
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One could use a pen name; most of CPians have been doing so.
Best,
Jun
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Jun Du wrote: One could use a pen name; most of CPians have been doing so.
Good point. It's too late for me now, though (not that I'm particularly offensive or opinionated). The idea of my posts being viewed by HR people really shook me up. It's probably not a big deal unless you say lots of offensive things. I hope.
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Do you ever ego search[^]? That's a great way to see what the world thinks of you 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Huh... Apparently you're quote worthy!
(and also edited a book of classic Christian texts  )
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The world seems to think that I'm a professional basketball player. Hmm, that's odd, I'm actually a consultant. I wonder what gave them that idea...
:josh:
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Josh Smith wrote: It's too late for me now
Naw, just find someone else with your name and claim up and down it was them...
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Unless, of course, they find this thread. 
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You could use an anonymous ID to make political/religious postings, and use your real name to make technical posts. It's messy - but eventually, it's best to be careful about what you post on the web under your real name.
Regards,
Nish
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Agree with Chris. If you don't want people to know, don't post it. (Or make sure HR bozos can't track it to you  )
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
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It looks like one of the banner ads crept into the left side. I grabbed a screen cap of it, but I have nowhere to upload it really. Anyways, the offending ad was for Prof-UIS.com. The banner pushes the left side way out.
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Chris -
I would like to suggest that you ditch the "white on black" color scheme of the Sections, Community, The Code Project headers, and use either the green and/or the same color you've used at the top of the page where the member name and settings links appear ...
The black and white just looks out of place ... IMHO ...
Beyond that, excellent work on the new front-end.
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's Site
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I print selected articles for later review. Until now I have never experienced truncation of printed material. Under this new format I find some articles being truncated on the right of each paragraph. Please correct this problem or make suggestions for properly printing of these great articles. Specific example: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ModelViewPresenter.asp?print=true
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That particular article hasn't been edited and has images wider than the 640 pixel limit we ask. As soon as an editor gets a chance to edit it, it will be fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris,
I have run into this problem too. (see http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/BackSideOfExceptions.asp?print=true). This article doesn't seem to have any overly wide images. It looks like the rating bar at the top right and the page header are cut off too. Other than this printing problem, I think the new remake looks great. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
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Won't it be better, if we have an option to search in Forums, for Example I want to get all discussions which happened about Datagrid.
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See the "Search comments" link in the header of each message board.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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