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    Chris Maunder wrote:

    The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, inciteful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions?

    ...Beer, Rum...OK pretty much any alcohol will do.

    Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004

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    Clearly I need to rephrase my posts a little

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      I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

      cheers, Chris Maunder

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      Patrick Etc
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      Chris Maunder wrote:

      The ones who have interesting stories, inciteful comments

      You might want those to be insightful comments. The inciteful kind probably aren't the ones you want around.. :-D

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        Chris Maunder wrote:

        The ones who have interesting stories, inciteful comments

        You might want those to be insightful comments. The inciteful kind probably aren't the ones you want around.. :-D

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        Talk about Freudian...

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        • C Chris Maunder

          I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

          cheers, Chris Maunder

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          Pete OHanlon
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          Chris Maunder wrote:

          1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

          I really don't think this is such a good idea. Instead of kicking them out, could you not have the system just not display posts from these people, unless it's them who are logged in? This way they will see their messages, and that there are no replies - hopefully driving them away from the forums.

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          • C Chris Maunder

            I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

            cheers, Chris Maunder

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            Jon Hulatt
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            Possibly having (more) moderators would be the easiest way to improving the wheat:chaff ratio of the boards. There are enough long standing members of the community who'd be happy to do this. I'd also like to see the ability to delete posts removed once there is a reply to the post.

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            • C Chris Maunder

              Clearly I need to rephrase my posts a little

              cheers, Chris Maunder

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              Chris Maunder wrote:

              Clearly I need to rephrase my posts a little

              No, not at all, I think it was perfectly put.

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              • C Chris Maunder

                I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                cheers, Chris Maunder

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                Chris Maunder wrote:

                2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, inciteful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions?

                My only concern here is that it'll encourage the univoter idiots to move from the lounge/soapbox and attack the programming forums more heavily since they'll actually be able to do damage to their victims status this way.

                Chris Maunder wrote:

                1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                Not sure about the abuse factor, but I'd recommend it only flagging someone for your attention and review rather than it happening fully automatically. You'd also need to worry about if the booted idiots would simply begin spamming their crap elsewhere. I'd also recommend it initially being a temp ban, and letting the idiots have a second chance after a month or six. You should probably require a reason for each ban request. This would be useful in filtering spite ban attempts and to let a booted idiot know what brought the hammer down on them.

                -- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                  cheers, Chris Maunder

                  CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                  I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                  And what would happened to the kicked one ? Would he be banned forever ? I am not really for it, everybody must have a second chance.

                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                  2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down.

                  :cool: I have started to write a thread in the suggestion forum yesterday yielding the exact same idea. And then I looked at the ranking how it was, and could not gather my thoughts together enough to come with a _real_ replacement, and canceled my post (I sort of also had the problem with rewarding cool people).

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                    I agree that changes are needed, and I have no problem with your suggestions. As someone who posts, but doesn't write articles, I am pleased to see that you are considering access based on posting and answering questions. As far as abuse goes, most systems will be abused by a minority. This then, is a general appeal to 'gold' members to not abuse their position. Thanks, Tim

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                    Tim Carmichael wrote:

                    As someone who posts, but doesn't write articles, I am pleased to see that you are considering access based on posting and answering questions.

                    I second that.

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                      cheers, Chris Maunder

                      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                      Mircea Grelus
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                      Chris Maunder wrote:

                      1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                      Since the current system of becoming a gold member is time since registration, I think this could be abused in the long run. It would probably be a good idea to change this, or start an additional ranking system based on high votes from currently ranked members. Besides the current Silver/Gold/Platinum in time this would generate another rank system based of actual activity in the forums. And when this additional system will become pretty consistent, rights could be given to users based on this ranking which is closer to the truth of the actual activity of the user. I think a long term solution is needed for this problem because we've had it before and it's going to be there for us in the future too.

                      Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                        cheers, Chris Maunder

                        CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                        Chris Maunder wrote:

                        The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions?

                        Cake.

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                          cheers, Chris Maunder

                          CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                          Corinna John
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                          Thanks a lot...

                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                          I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button.

                          It should be accessible only by members with a status that cannot be achieved by waiting, downloading and posting rubbish. The only status they don't get by waiting is Platinum. We need a new ranking based on - posted answers in the programming forum - articles with rating 3+ - to reward the nice loungers: average score of the member's Lounge postings

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                            cheers, Chris Maunder

                            CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                            Prakash Nadar
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                            Chris Maunder wrote:

                            - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam

                            But you should change the way silver and gold are awarded, just being registered for more than 1 year should not increase the level.

                            Chris Maunder wrote:

                            - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day

                            good.

                            Chris Maunder wrote:

                            - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages"

                            ok.

                            Chris Maunder wrote:

                            I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                            yes kicked but not permanentely maybe for a day or something like that.

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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                              cheers, Chris Maunder

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                              Chris Maunder wrote:

                              1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                              Bye, bye, John Simmons... :-D

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                                cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam

                                Make that gold and above. There are heaps of them anyway....

                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute

                                I thought this was in place since last month?

                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                                I'm tempted to say 'Great idea!' but sadly it's going to be abused. Maybe you can make it accessible to Platinum members only - there are only a few of them, and they're all generally good apples.

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                                I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles.

                                Again, this is going to be HEAVILY abused. Point #3 mitigates this abuse to a certain extent, but if you want to see an example of this abuse, I suggest you look at the votes I've been garnering in the C# forum. I don't give a damn what happens in the Lounge, but I do my best to help people in small ways in the C# forum, and some arsehole is dutifully voting every post of mine down. That is abuse in my book. :|

                                Cheers, Vıkram.


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                                • C Corinna John

                                  Thanks a lot...

                                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                                  I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button.

                                  It should be accessible only by members with a status that cannot be achieved by waiting, downloading and posting rubbish. The only status they don't get by waiting is Platinum. We need a new ranking based on - posted answers in the programming forum - articles with rating 3+ - to reward the nice loungers: average score of the member's Lounge postings

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                                  Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                  I mostly agree, but why should only articles with a rating of 3+ be considered? Surely poor (and pathetic) articles should be given the thumbs down?

                                  Cheers, Vıkram.


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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                                    cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                    code frog 0
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                                    Chris Maunder wrote:

                                    - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages"

                                    I don't like this mainly because there are some members here who have invested a ton of quality time here. The message count is always a fun topic when someone brings up CG's messages in the lounge for example. It's just friggin amazing.

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                                    1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                                    I think this is a great idea but it should be reset every day. Banning shouldn't be permanent. What I think would be really great is if you do get banned for the day any messages you posted that day don't count towards your message count at all. Getting banned results in an automatic subtraction of 10 messages from your total message count in your profile.

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                                    2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions?

                                    If the "Kick" button does it's job you shouldn't really need to make any changes here. The current status system seems to be adequate.

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                                    • C Chris Maunder

                                      I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                                      cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      lost in transition
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                                      You're the boss handle it the way you see fit. I'm still going to hang around.


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                                        I'm getting as tired as everyone else of the crap that is going on so I'm proposing the following changes: - I've increased the threshold for messages to disappear if marked as spam - Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam - Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute and also a limited number of times a day - Once you hit 5,000 messages then your profile will simply say "over 5,000 messages" Two more thoughts: 1. I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be? 2. I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles. You post rubbish and you go down. The only problem with this is how we reward those members who are simply great to have around. The ones who have interesting stories, incitefulinsightful comments, are great moderators of the mood, and whose participation makes CodeProject what it is. Suggestions? -- modified at 10:20 Wednesday 18th July, 2007

                                        cheers, Chris Maunder

                                        CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                        Bert delaVega
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                                        Instead of just a "kick" button, I think you should have a jailhouse type of area with suspension of posting ability. After multiple offenses, they're kicked off the site for good. Also, rename the lounge to "Off Topic Lounge" to maybe cut down on posts going to the wrong place. I also think the idea of ranking based on posts and articles is a good idea. Some people enjoy helping others in the forums but don't write articles. Others write articles but don't post.

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                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          Only silver and above members can mark messages as spam

                                          Make that gold and above. There are heaps of them anyway....

                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          Your IP address can only vote a limited number of times a minute

                                          I thought this was in place since last month?

                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          I'm tempted to add a "Kick this person out of the lounge" button. It would only be accessible by Gold and above members. Just how abused would this be?

                                          I'm tempted to say 'Great idea!' but sadly it's going to be abused. Maybe you can make it accessible to Platinum members only - there are only a few of them, and they're all generally good apples.

                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          I will be replacing the Silver/Gold etc ranking with a ranking based on your participation as an author and as a poster. If you answer questions in the forums that are well received you increase your status; same with your posted articles.

                                          Again, this is going to be HEAVILY abused. Point #3 mitigates this abuse to a certain extent, but if you want to see an example of this abuse, I suggest you look at the votes I've been garnering in the C# forum. I don't give a damn what happens in the Lounge, but I do my best to help people in small ways in the C# forum, and some arsehole is dutifully voting every post of mine down. That is abuse in my book. :|

                                          Cheers, Vıkram.


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                                          Mircea Grelus
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                                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                                          oting every post of mine down

                                          Yes this is an issue that is really disturbing. I'm not saying it is a big issue in the Lounge but it is in the programming forums. Platinum members should be given the doubtful rights right now, like kicking out of the Lounge for say like 1 week and it should be a must to provide a reason for doing it, so that the person is aware of what went wrong.

                                          Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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