Posts by Dani

I definitely agree that one way targeted links are simply the best. This is especially true if you can get links within body content instead of in the footer or something.

I see nothing wrong with it.

Hi! Welcome. I hope you get your problem solved. Good luck.

I'm going to make a change. Tell me if this fixes it ...

Because the person who gave you reputation doesn't have a high reputation, meaning that even though they approved your post, they don't have enough reputation power to influence your reputation.

Since there is both positive and negative reputation power, I've chosen to disable you telling who so as to not stir negative feelings throughout the community.

However, members have the option of making a comment when they give rep points, and some choose to sign their comment.

You're the only one who knows exactly how much reputation you have. Everyone else can see the little green dots which are a visual representation that is relative to all the reps of all members.

Just the fun factor. Reputation points can be used as an incentive to post more and to post good stuff so that other people will give you positive kudos.

People can click the "Add to Chaky's Reputation" link in your post. If they really like your post, they'll add to your reputation. If they dislike your post, they'll subtract from your reputation. The amount of influence they have over how much your rep will increase or decrease is based on their own reputations.

Have you just been having this problem today or has it been going on for awhile? We moved servers last month but it should have made things go faster than before.

You're very welcome.

That's really strange. I have no idea. Has this been going on for awhile or did it just start? Does anyone else have this problem? Unfortunately, I can't test it for myself, because I don't use subscription notification.

Are you looking for help with the backend? If so, you might want to be posting in our XML and SOAP forum. The whole point of online communities is for things to be posted publically so that people can learn from each other, and other people with similar questions can find existing solutions in the future. We really discourage communication via IM or email because it defeats the purpose :)

If you really need a lot of help, you might want to consider posting in our IT Job Offers for help.

I agree - the first one. It's less cluttered :)

You're missing it? This is because you're using Threaded mode. Try switching back to Linear mode and it should reappear.

Awesome. Welcome :)

I don't know. How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

I'm really confused what you're asking. See attachment.

No ... of course I consider AdSense ads. But a single ad box that might consist of four text links is counted as one ad. I was trying to figure out how you came up with 20-something ads per page.

But thank you!!

24 ?! Where on earth do you come up with that figure ... unless you consider an AdSense box with multiple text links to be individual ad units?

Don't confuse the PR value Google lets us see on the toolbar with Google's internal PR algorithm.

Any suggestions? Things you would like to see in a monthly newsletter? For now (at least) I would like to focus on stuff that can be automatically generated by the site, as opposed to the extra resources it would take to write articles specifically for the newsletter.

It takes a huge amount of time and resources to run DaniWeb, and advertising is therefore unevitable. I try to make the ads as painless as possible. For example, I tried to run an IntelliTXT campaign in the past, but user responses were terrible, so I took it down after only 2 weeks. If I do get overwhelming negative reactions to an ad spot, I will definitely reconsider. Our current ad positions have worked well for the last two years, so .... :)

I have a Linksys router (WAN = cable modem) connected to a Linksys gigabit switch in addition to a Linksys Wireless G router.

My XBOX 360 is connected via CAT6 to either the router or the switch - I forget which one and my cables are so crazy underneath my desk it's too much of a mess to trace it to figure it out.

My network has always worked just fine. However, when I have the router's MTU set to Auto, my Xbox can't connect to the Internet. It's only when I set my router's MTU to Manual (1500 bytes) that suddenly my Xbox can get Internet access.

There's no problem in doing this. I'm just wondering why this is. I'm assuming (and I am probably wrong) that the Xbox is trying to transfer packets that are larger than whatever the router's default MTU size is? Wouldn't they just get divided into smaller packets en route? And isn't 1500 bytes standard, anyways, so shouldn't that be what the router's default setting is? I'm confused.

If it's lots of people whose first and only post on the site is "Give me a free subscription" then I agree with you. However, I don't feel the posts should be deleted if they have other posts on the site or if there is two way communication between people who want and people who have, as is the case with the Gmail invites.

Yes, this one. Hehe.

What would you like it to do that it isn't doing? That is the extent of the functionality of the buddy list. You can add buddies to your buddy list via your control panel: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/profile.php?do=editlist

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Have you considered using a third party PHP parser? I know this isn't a solution to your problem, but I use MagpieRSS PHP parser and I absolutely love it.

But from what I saw, it was an equal number of people saying "gimme free subscriptions" as "I have free subscriptions avaiable" - which makes it similar to the Gmail invites thread where people were trading with each other.

Lots of techies are gamers, and lots use Xbox, and it's in the Geek's Lounge, which makes it completely on-topic and relevant :)

The only way that I will agree with you is if all of the posts are "I want a free Xbox subscription!" and there aren't any posts offering them as well.

My point of view is that 90% of our traffic comes from people arriving at specific threads from Google - and some of them do stick around and turn into regulars. For that reason, I see these members as no different - arriving from a specific thread where some of them can turn into prospective regular members.

For a long time, we ranked #1 in Google for "bridge.dll" for a particular thread on bridge.dll (that eventually got closed because so many people hijacked it after finding it from Google) ... If your rationale held, you would say, "We don't need these people who contribute nothing to the site and are just here to get a quick answer to the same bridge.dll question over and over again - these aren't the type of members we want to be a part of our community." ...... And if your rationale held, everytime a new thread was started about "bridge.dll" it would be deleted.

On the other hand ... the extra exposure we got from that bridge.dll thread is what originally sparked the enormous growth of the MS Windows forum. A lot of the people who originally posted bridge.dll questions came back over time with other questions, or even turned into regular contributing members and frequent visitors.

I work VERY hard on DaniWeb's search engine optimization and each good ranking to an individual thread is a little victory for me, because it means lots of traffic and lots of prospective members …

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There is no need to waste time resubmitting your site to the search engines. They find your site via other sites. Posting on forums with your site links in your signature is a great way to get site visitors, especially on forums related to your site - it is also a good way to get contacts in your industry and earn a positive reputation.

I use ThinkGeek, not sure of any others.

> Thing is, though, that they're not the rage, and they never have been, at least not on this forum.
But they ARE all the rage if we're getting a bunch of them. :)

> I really don't like these types of threads.
Personal opinions are irrelevant. Obviously, other people do like these types of threads, or else they wouldn't exist.

For me, the difference between spam and not spam is:
not => request for a free trial, has free trials available
is => starting a new thread saying they have for sale

Still, if it's the hot thing to buy, sell, and trade, I see nothing wrong with opening up one thread in the Geek's lounge for it.

I've been deleting recent requests for those free 2/3 month subscriptions, because it could easily turn into some lame "OMFG, D00D CN 1 H4B 1 2000???" types of deals.

I definitely disagree with deleting threads that don't violate the rules "because they could be" as opposed to "because they are." If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If there isn't a problem, and there is no past history of a problem (that could be repeating itself), and there are no signs of an upcoming problem ... then all that you are doing is making users feel unwelcome by deleting their post for violating an imaginary rule they didn't know about.

I have always been very adamant about only deleting a post if that particular post specifically violates the rules. I think deleting a thread because the conversation can attract a younger / more immature / gaming audience is definitely not the way to go.

Especially when you say "it could easily turn into" as opposed to "it is already causing" huge problems.

In fact, I am on the entire opposite side of the spectrum. If buying and selling or giving away Xbox codes is the latest rage, I see absolutely no harm in opening up ONE thread in the Geek's lounge to doing so similar to the Gmail invites thread. I don't see these as being illegal, especially because they have an entire category on eBay devoted to them. If they were, indeed, illegal, eBay would have gotten a handle on the matter by now.

In fact, I think it's fads like these that can really get DaniWeb to grow. So many people come to the site looking for one thing, end up liking what they see, and staying on for different reasons entirely. Geeky traffic is geeky traffic, after all :) Lots of Xbox gamers might be C++ programmers too. I don't think we shouldn't give them a warm welcome because they found us from searching for one thing in Google as opposed to searching for something else in Google.

Awesome.

All hacks on DaniWeb were custom written by me. Nothing is anything released that you'll find available on vbulletin.org or such.

Essentially, I am using XSLT and HTML/CSS to customize the output of an XML feed.

Oh well. I've noticed it's fallen into more Junk folders than the plain text emails I used to send out about 3 times a year, and consequently hasn't driven the same traffic burst to the site as the plain text emails.

Hi Daniel ... Welcome.

Hi and welcome :) Good luck finishing up school.

Hi Alfred. Welcome to DaniWeb :)

Hi!! Welcome :)

SEO is such an enormous industry that you can't really create a thread and say "teach me all about it." That would be like creating a thread and saying "teach me everything you know about the web design industry." As a web designer, you know that isn't possible.

What I recommend that you do is learn by reading other threads in this SEO forum. Then, come back to us with more specific questions you may have.

Good luck!!

Is it possible that these logs have something in common aside from being very long? Perhaps this happens with logs infected with a particular virus?

In the past we had a problem where a virus was going around, and anytime a thread was loaded in IE that contained a HjT log infected with the virus, IE / Windows script errors would start going off, because something within the log was actually being executed on-the-fly by Internet Explorer in trying to render the code that displays the log with the malicious code.

Last week marked the first issue - the May issue - of our DaniWeb Monthly Digest eNewsletter. I was just looking for some feedback on it. Anyone read it? :)

What day of the week has worked out best to send newsletters or digets to your members? Right now I have them set to go out on the first Monday of every month. However, I'm wondering if Monday is not the best day because people are in the whole "back to the grind" mood and busy playing catchup from the workload that piled up during the weekend, and sorting through a weekend's worth of email in their inboxes. I don't want my newsletters to get lost in the mix and am wondering if Tuesday is perhaps better? As you guys know, the site mostly attracts professionals.

On the other hand, the weekends are very slow for us, and a Monday newsletter might be just the boost we need to start off the week.

Well, you just created a thread to get help on how to get help. And I'm answering you ... therefore, you were successful :) Just do it the same way you did this time.

Visit the forum index at http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/ ... choose the category most suited to your question, and click the New Thread button the same way you did to post this time. :)