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Another issue I have with it is that it has been my experience that the majority of the problem is that people don't understand what code tags are or how/why to use them. An additional notification stating to use code tags is a moot point, and an alert prohibiting the posting process is just going to be more frustrating than anything else, really.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Davey has the same experience as I do, with the constant PMs asking, "What are code tags and why do I need them?"

I think that if we did implement this solution, there would be an increase in the percentage of people posting with code tags. But there would also be an even more significant decrease in the percentage of new posts. Essentially, all the people who post without code tags would instead get frustrated and/or confused and simply not post at all.

I am hesitant to follow in the footsteps of sites such as CProgramming, as that site has been around MUCH longer than DaniWeb, and hasn't seen anywhere at all close to the growth or traffic that we have. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why.

Hi there, welcome to DaniWeb!

I was born in '82 and was too young to remember this as well.

Yes, cookies are required to contribute to DaniWeb.

We use an out-of-the-box version of the jQuery UI (jqueryui.com) toolkit to do the popup. It is a very popular toolkit and I'd be surprised if there were any bugs as large as no Chrome support.

Try playing around with the dialog box demos at http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/ to see if you can reproduce the error. If so, it would be very much appreciated if you could submit a bug report to The jQuery Project, since it is a very actively deveolped project that a lot of people, including myself, use.

The only other thing I could think of is that a particular ad on DaniWeb loaded for you and broke the popup. You might only be experiencing it in Chrome because ads sometimes display based on cookies, which are browser independant.

We have not had a members list for about two years already. The reason being is that it is simply too resource-intensive to pull a list of all 850,000 members from a database table that is very heavily used.

Eeeww.

^ is a gaming geek

Quite a compliment coming from such a tattoo expert!!

My favorite part of this review was being a hand model!!

To start a thread, look at the categories across the top of the page (Software Development, Web Development, etc). Select one of the subcategories either from the dropdown menu or by clicking into the main category and then selecting the subcategory. Then click the button that says Start a New Thread either at the top or bottom of the thread listing.

Oh goodness gracious!! Didn't you ever get chickenpox when you were younger?

When I was a baby, I got chickenpox and ended up with one or two pox across my entire body. At the same time, my dad came down with shingles and was so out of it he was hallucinating. He actually had the rash down the inside lining of his mouth and throat, and in an effort to soothe it, my grandma attempted to give him some hot tea. However, she accidentally put salt in it instead of sugar.

instruments --> drum

Hi there :) Even administrators read them ;) Welcome!

Are you sure it's not because you reported posts, and those don't count towards your post count? I dunno, I will have to look into it either this weekend or Monday.

And there was the dog.

Yes, I know it's still an outstanding bug that if you are not logged in, and you attempt to use quick reply, it is a smooth process ot register, but not to log in if you are already a member.

There are two reasons why we nofollow our forum posts. The first is to combat spam. Hopefully fewer spammers will want to post on DaniWeb since they are nofollowed. The second is because we are constantly being told by Google that the "right" and "ethical" and "best SEO practice" is to nofollow links that the website owner cannot personally vouch for (aka any user-generated content), and to not nofollow all other links. Therefore, we employ this policy in that we nofollow member posts but we do not nofollow links within our editorial content.

Google does not have the quarterly PR updates like they had years ago. Instead, there are now constant fluctuations in their algorithm.

I thought he was cute. 'Nuf said.

Yes.

Funnily enough, I use Optimum Wifi. Optimum Online is my ISP and Optimum Wifi are their free wifi access points avilable throughout the county / city.

Oh stop being mean :) Congrats!

Besides, I find it quite amusing that everyone else who commented has WAY more posts ;)

Huh??

> Do snippets still show up as a normal forum-thread with the "snippet" prefix as before
Yes, they should be

Huh? What happened?!

Huh??

Sorry for the confusion by posting the hidden link.

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread322924.html

OK getting blud's attention.

We are making that much money :) We did not start with any investment ... Instead, completely grew it from the ground up with $0 out of pocket. But it took us over five years to get to this point, and fulltime for better part of it as well.

Hi,

I guess I'm confused by the questions you are asking specifically. The more time you spend on DaniWeb, the more familiar you will be with all of our features. I'm not sure what happened with regards to the email though :(

What does the new Coverage % column mean in Google AdSense reports?

Or maybe the Graphics and Multimedia forum: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum28.html

Between a Game Dev forum, and a Graphics and Multimedia forum, I definitely think that 3d modeling has its place. It's silly to create yet another forum to further dilute things when the existing related forums don't have wide enough appeal with our audience.

Oh okay, good. :)

Oh goodness gracious! I dressed up as a ladybug for a halloween party I went to last night, but unfortunately I don't have any pictures.

The vast majority of members have 10 rep points, which is what new members have by default. Once you jump from 10 to 11 your rank goes up by like six figures.

Sorry :embarassed:

If you could email it to me at cscgal@daniwebmail.com that would be great. I think Apache glitched.

http.

https means over a secure connection.

Yes, it means creating backlinks off of just a few keywords, and also constantly repeating those keywords within the content on-site.

Yes, when rep stopped being counted in the lounge, it was just from that point forward. Everyone kept their existing reputation.

> How does joshSCH (banned member) who contributed nothing end up so high on the rep tree?

I would tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. In all seriousness, joshSCH has received rep MANY times from christina>you, jbennet, John A, iamthwee a LOT, Dave Sinkula a lot of times, happygeek a handful of times, and a bunch of times from Rashakil Fol, Wolfpack, Aia, Duki, Sulley's Boo, Ezzaral, The Dude, peter_budo, Salem, Nichito, scru ... The list goes on and on. Apparently YOU were just about the only person who has never given him any rep at some point :)

> Except solved threads are 'controlled' by the OP, not one who answers a query. Unless you're suggesting blud find an unsolved thread and click it to solved himself

It was just an example. You have direct control over your posts and not your reputation or solved counters, but there is still motivation there because generally speaking a really good poster will end up with all three statistics being good.

Sanjay is right in that the activity points, reputation system, top rankings, etc. are not directed towards the one-timers who are just coming for a quick answer and then leaving. Instead, they are meant as enticement and encouragement for anyone new to our community or interested in being a bigger part of our community.

When you click on the rank from your member profile, the resulting page is customized just for you. So if you rank #220, it will show you what it takes for you to be among the top 200. The idea, hopefully, is that members will be encouraged to see it only takes an additional five posts to jump from ranking #400 to top #350, for example.

Here's an example of what the page looks for blud, our sysadmin: http://www.daniweb.com/certificates/stats.php?u=6790

He has a respectable 546 posts under his belt and has solved 18 threads to rank #420 for solving threads. But it might be encouragement for him to see that he only needs to solve two more threads in order to jump up to rank #389.

It might also be interesting for him to see other members who participate a similar amount to him, and click into their profiles to see what their interests are and how they utilize the site that is different from him.

As far as newbies are concerned, the ranking statistic makes the system a little more comprenehsible. For example, a newbie might see that a …

> Nice to know stats for regular members, but probably not much value to new ones.
Why not?

Yup ... activity points are in your member profile and also on the top list page. They are also a new feature added over the weekend. More coming with them in the future :)

What do you think??

I have heard many good things about Wordpress.

So I added a new feature to DaniWeb over the weekend that shows your member rank in your member profile. So just go to your member profile and you can see where you rank among all DaniWeb members in terms of your post count, your reputation, and your number of solved threads. The rank is actually a link to a full page showing where you rank.

Sooo ... where do you rank? What do you think? Encouraging? Discouraging? Surprising? Interesting?

Today's issue actually wasn't our fault at all. Our ad server was having issues, which was slowing up page response times. I've gone ahead and made some adjustments so that if our ad server is down in the future, we will only be very minimally affected.

Gah, I'm sorry about that.