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Re: Is this normal behavior?

6-Oct-14 9:21

That's by design.

cheers
Chris Maunder

vbmike6-Oct-14 9:22

vbmike

6-Oct-14 9:22

thank you.

vbmike

Do Q&A forum inquirers have any access to the answers on deleted question pages?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov6-Oct-14 9:05

Re: Do Q&A forum inquirers have any access to the answers on deleted question pages?

6-Oct-14 9:05

I think, here is the minor issue we have here:

I can see many cases when our answers are indirectly removed, because the whole question page is removed due to some member's abuse reports. (Thanks to Chris to restoring one of such my answers for me; I started to preserve some interesting answers in my records.)

I don't even question those abuse reports. They are usually quite fair; and I report bad questions myself. I also agree that such questions should be removed and that the answers on the removed page disappear. This is fine, because those questions and answers may not have any value for all the readers. But those answers could be helpful just for one person, OP. Some questions are inconsistent, incomplete, illiterate, even off-topic, demonstrate wrong approaches; often, such questions are cannot be fully answered. But nevertheless, such advice or incomplete answer could really be useful for this only person, OP.

That's why I wonder if such removed answers can be accessible be OP of not. If not, I would suggest they would go to our messaging system. This way, only the OP along would be able to read the deleted answers, which would be quite enough in such cases.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Wendelius6-Oct-14 9:18

Wendelius

6-Oct-14 9:18

Wouldn't the answers appear in OP's notification list and as e-mails for the OP. The notification list probably won't show the whole answer, just the beginning but the email should contain the whole story. Unsure | :~

Probably, but does it appear at all?..

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov6-Oct-14 9:29

Re: Probably, but does it appear at all?..

6-Oct-14 9:29

I agree. Good point. I mean that the messaging system (or something equivalent) could provide more suitable way of seeing those deleted answers (well, maybe comments, too).

My point is just the motivation. I can see that many of such answers could be useful to OP who deserves this little favor even if the question was bad. After all, if the post did not deserve this little piece of attention and advice, I would not probably post anything. Only recently, I added some useful links and other useful information on some removed answers.

One more note: we do see comments on deleted pages in our personal message pages (well, they could be better), but I'm not sure where the answers from removed pages go. If OP never see them, it would be not the best solution. Sometimes, the page gets removed when the answer is not yet submitted; so the submission is still possible, but then it may go nowhere.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Nelek6-Oct-14 10:58

Nelek

6-Oct-14 10:58

The question itself remains visible for some members with enough reputation but it is marked as deleted with the reason when reported or just as deleted when some protector dealt with it.

This morning I was thinking that CP had problems because I was answering in an article into moderation but I always got the "something wrong happen" picture with the hamsters ripping of a desktop. I tried and tried and nothing. At the end searched the article another time and it was edited to a tip. I could post my message at the first try.

What I want to say is... if the question gets deleted while you are writing the answer. As far as you don't get an error message I guess it is still posted and linked to that question. It might be not visible, but I think it is somewhere in the system. If not, there would have been much more difficult to restore your past answer (I remember the petition).

M.D.V.

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Re: Probably, but does it appear at all?..

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov6-Oct-14 11:48

Re: Probably, but does it appear at all?..

6-Oct-14 11:48

As I said, it certainly remains in the system; Chris retrieved one of such answers on my request. The problem is: the answer which is probably only useful for just one person, OP, might be not accessible to this person. If, for example, the answer is mine, it remains in the answer list, but the content is not visible to me. That's the only problem, the lack of access by OP. The pages with bad answers should eventually be removed from common access; I don't question that.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Wendelius6-Oct-14 17:42

Wendelius

6-Oct-14 17:42

I see your point. Not sure how this would or should work in the 'normal' CP site but what came to my mind is: If CodeProject API would have a method pulling out all personal answers (and possibly related question), then it would be easy to create a small app to list all personal answers...

A quick fix could that you would have an option to send your own answer also to yourself via email when answering a question...

No, the problem is different

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov6-Oct-14 18:20

Re: No, the problem is different

6-Oct-14 18:20

No, this is not a problem. We can always preserve our own posts. The only problem it to allow OP to read answers which were posted on the deleted question page.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Nelek6-Oct-14 21:43

Nelek

6-Oct-14 21:43

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote:
The only problem it to allow OP to read answers which were posted on the deleted question page.

First of all, I see your point and I am agree, that would be nice. It would be even nicer if the answers got "visible" not only for the owner but as well for the people with enough privileges that can see the question itself. I would personally still read the answers, there is always the possibility to find something unknown or a good link or something usefull without expecting it.

On the other hand (and back to "only the OP" part), I guess that the people posting question leave the "email me if someone reply to this message" checked by default, if so, they already have the answers in the email.

When I started on CP I was asking a lot, I got all notification emails and the best answers I received got saved in a special folder in my account (many of them are still there due to its quality).

M.D.V.

Emoticons display

Rage6-Oct-14 2:32

6-Oct-14 2:32

The rendering of the emoticons by FireFox is broken : appears as "| : - )".
It is highly probable that the problem is only on my machine, as nobody else complained here, but if I could have an idea at what to look at, I'd be more than happy !
OK, solved, had to debug the code, get the cloud server address where the emoticons are saved and add a security exception for accessing it.

~RaGE();

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Chris Maunder6-Oct-14 4:46

6-Oct-14 4:46

Rage wrote:
and add a security exception for accessing it.

On your browser or company / personal firewall?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Rage6-Oct-14 5:06

6-Oct-14 5:06

On my browser (FF24.8.0 - Win7), which runs behind the company firewall.

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Chris Maunder6-Oct-14 6:29

6-Oct-14 6:29

So the company firewall is blocking the emoticons? What about other items such as scripts and stylesheets?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Rage6-Oct-14 9:45

6-Oct-14 9:45

It works like a charm.
As I am not an expert, I am really not sure about whether it is the company firewall or something else : Firefox asked me whether I want to add a security exception (This typical window[^]) after clicking on the "I understand the risk". This made it work again. And everything else worked without any problem (scripts and CSS).

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Entropy isn't what it used to.

Richard Deeming7-Oct-14 1:21

Richard Deeming

7-Oct-14 1:21

That looks like a problem with an SSL cert. Since you seem to be the only one experiencing it, I'd guess that something in your network is intercepting HTTPS traffic. Unsure | :~

If you can reproduce the problem, try clicking the "Technical Details" heading on the error page. That should tell you why Firefox is rejecting the certificate.

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Rage13-Oct-14 5:13

13-Oct-14 5:13

I am still struggling with this problem. Here is the error:

dj9okeyxktdvd.cloudfront.net uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted. (Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

I have no idea what and how to modify it so that I do not need to add security exceptions every day.

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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 Maunder13-Oct-14 7:36

13-Oct-14 7:36

I've found the issue: we were actually requesting the emoticons as SSL. I've turned this off.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Rage13-Oct-14 12:50