You could apply that same logic to pretty mjuch every forum on the web: most forums have a certain level of spam becuase preventing every spamming idiot means that ordinary members would be hugely...

Just because some dullard abuses a system that does not mean that the the system itself is bad, nor does it mean that the dullard is some kind of hero - it just means that someone has abused the...

Indeed, it is a relatively rare request to be honest, and anyway I'm an admin and it's part of my job :)

I am closing this thread as a fire fighting precaution

And, as if by magic, he's done it :)

Use interview-question instead, which will work.

Clicking on 'clear' is exactly what I do, simplest solution and saves my brain exploding :)

The down votes simply mean people do not agree with either your opinion on the matter, or perhaps more likely the way you have expressed. They certainly do not mean you do not have a right to reply,...

I think, perhaps, now is the right time for this thread to wind down - or at least for participants to step back and take a deep breath before posting.

Let's not have it become a slanging match,...

Why?

DaniWeb does have a proper office you know :)

Address can be found by clicking the Contact Us (http://www.daniweb.com/contactus.php) link at the bottom of every page.

Donating brings additional benefits over and above normal membership of the site, such as an advert free experience for example. More accurately it should be thought of as a subscription rather than...

Done :)

Done

Done

There's a forum fit for pretty much everything, but if a user truly cannot find somewhere then they should PM me and I'll point them in the right direction.

Yes it can - if you do agree with something then vote it up. As long as people use the voting system then the abusers will be drowned out and deserving posts will get positive scores. If the 'wisdom...

Sorry, jbennet is correct.

I also suggest that you reference the work in your report and cite any code which was given to you.

You asked for help, got help and now that help is available for...

I put the kibosh on it by saying everything was running fine :(

I think AD is probably right, was guilty of some double posts myself yesterday as a result.

Yep, yesterday was so slow I hade to give up in the end - but all is well again now, zipping along quite smoothly here :)

I believe it is calculated using the up and down votes your messages get, probably involving the number of individual members and number of individual posts which have been voted upon along the way....

The 'share' buttons are useful for forum posts beyond just news and tutorials, for the following very good reason: they can help get good threads in front of more people, beyond those who are already...

Have not tried it yet, but would use of an underscore work? So Windows 7 becomes Windows_7

I think that it needs time to settle. The whole idea of such a voting system is that it employs the 'wisdom of crowds' and as such we can only see if it is actually working or not over time.

The...

Don't forget netbooks, increasingly popular with the tech savvy user :)

The posts in question were deleted after being flagged as bad by other DaniWeb members. Upon investigation it turned out that not only did they have no bearing upon the thread/topic/forum in which...

If you have something that you consider is worthy of news story status then you can post it to the Upcoming News Stories (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum178.html) forum, where it will be reviewed...

Deffo speedier here. Nice.

Display bug (Firefox) - When looking at my inbox, the folder controls panel overlaps/sits on top of the favorite forums list and the latest posts/features lists overlap the inbox contents index.

The warning system provides a way of letting members know they have broken the rules without it actually giving them infraction points or being too formal - as it says, it simply serves as a reminder...

Hey folks, let's not get *too* far off topic here please :)

To be honest, I think the poll results attached to this thread pretty much say it all. Of those who were interested enough to vote, overwhelmingly they said no or don't care to the idea - which is...

Hey, feel free to keep making suggestions even if they are not applied or there is general disagreement - it's what being part of a community is all about.

Actually, the mods and myself spend a great deal of our time deleting the tipard spam and infracting/banning the users who spam this (and other 'ripper') stuff. I have banned half a dozen such people...

Yeah, user banned and posts have been deleted

Exactly. An Australian publication I write for just went through this process, took a couple of months but eventually the username was surrendered to it.

The fact that the daniweb username is not...

I've only been on Twitter for 2.5 years, and didn't know about that one! :) Now following...

Looks like someone has taken the daniweb name on Twitter (back at the end of 2008) although the account is hardly active with 1 foreign language post and just the 1 follower.

There are mechanisms...

Done :)