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Steps to fix this:

1. Edit the post
2. Click the Files button in the editor toolbar, the same way you did to upload the file
3. Click the Delete link next to the attachment you wish to remove

Right ... individual threads are considered read if the forum they belong to has been read. If you read the latest item in a forum, that entire forum (and, consequently, all other threads in that forum) all become read.

When you read the newest thread in a forum, it automatically marks that forum as read.

Here's how you do that:

[Click here](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#asList(T...))

OR

[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#asList(T...)](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#asList(T...))

OR

Click the 'Link' button in the editor toolbar or hit Ctrl+L to insert a link.

All three ways should work.

Give the link a title:

Click here

OR

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#asList(T...)

Do you mean a Javascript-based syntax highlighter that highlights the Java language??

The entire page doesn't refresh when submitting a post to decrease bandwidth resources. You can always hit F5 or click the refresh button to manually refresh, but a lot of resources are saved by not having it do it automatically. If you just have something quick to say, it's much faster as well.

Facebook integration is based on having your DaniWeb email address match your Facebook primary email address. So here's what you will need to do.

1. Log into the account you created accidentally
2. Change the email for the account to a dummy email (You need to do this because it is currently set to the email you will need to use for your primary account, and only one DaniWeb account can have any unique email address)
3. Permanently delete that profile: http://www.daniweb.com/members/edit_membership
4. Log into your primary DaniWeb account you wish to use
5. Edit your profile, and change the email address on file to the one currently set as your default Facebook email address (i.e. the original email address of the account you deleted in the above step)

So sorry for the inconvenience!!!

This is by design.

If you hover to the bottom of Web Dev, it says specificially you have '40 Web Design, HTML and CSS Endorsements'. Endorsements aren't tallyed up within subforums. Your avatar only gets shown if you make the grade within one specific forum/subforum. In this case, out of all of the Web Dev children, you have the most amount of endorsements in the Web Design category, so that's what it shows.

That's way too much code for me to read, but what you are going to want to do is store the integer by itself in the database, but on DISPLAY, when printing out the number, wrap it in the php number_format() function.

I've never heard of Media Temple, actually.

Done. :)

Your thread about cheeseburgers? I can't seem to find your name. Please link me to the thread and tell me the line number with your name.

My friend Marshall Sponder actually wrote a book on this very topic called Social Media Analytics (shoutout to Marshall!). Unfortunately, this is something that lots of marketers have been struggling with ever since the invention of Facebook.

The first thing to think about is what you have to gain from social media. What are your goals? To what end? Is the goal to simply connect with your customers to gain additional feedback? Is the goal to do viral marketing to increase traffic back to your website? Are you an eCommerce site? Are you trying to use social media to increase branding or do you need it to directly back into additional sales for you? How do you measure your ROI?

The simplest way to delve in is to use Google Analytics to track how many people used social bookmarks (Tweet, FB Share, etc) to share your content with their friends. You can also use it to track how many people came into your site from each social network.

If you have goals set up in Google Analytics, you can track goals from social networks, such as how many people came in from a social network subsequently made a purchase on your site, compared to how many from other traffic sources.

By default, Google Analytics tracks all of this for Google Plus (of course). But you have to do a little bit of Javascript work to get it to work for Facebook and Twitter.

Instructions to integrate Facebook and Twitter into …

Actually, on second thought, this clarifies a lot for me. DaniWeb keeps getting hit by Panda because of threads like these :-/ To recover from Panda you need quality content in complete sentences. No duplicate content. And absolutely no spun content!

HUH?!?!

It's still happening, but not nearly as frequently.

Sorry about that ... we've been experiencing bad issues lately related to connecting to the database and memcached servers, which is most likely the reason for your issue. I've been up nights and around the clock working on it.

You can easily add naked links, and the link syntax really isn't that hard to remember: [text](url). Files are impossible, but, in reality, just how intricate are your posts going to be on your mobile device?

A solved article has been solved. A promoted article has been temporarily pushed to the top of the list because of the reason explained in this thread.

The idea is that it is supposed to be similar to the old "popular threads" ranking system on article pages. All I really want people to understand at first glance is that these articles are featured in some way and for some reason. People should catch on that they tend to be of a higher quality, overall. I'm actually still tweaking the criteria determing how many checkmarks an article gets.

If you're in the Skill Endorsements tab on a member profile, you can click on the 'Me' box to endorse the member for a particular skill.

I'm changing the criteria for the number of checks as we speak. There was a point where very, very few people (you among them) had 5.

Sorry about that!!! Massive fail :(

It's a hint to how much kudos the thread starter has (an algorithm based on their reputation, solved threads, and endorsements), to help you judge the quality of the question being asked.

At least for now, I am intentionally making it somewhat difficult to endorse members (i.e. only via their member profile or the Endorse page), and leaving it out from within posts, so as to not confuse it with the knee-jerk reaction of voting on the post.

Diafol, I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "kudosify" it ... I sorta feel like everything is essentially giving kudos be it the reputation system, voting system, or new endorsement system. Ultimately the distinction I'm hoping to make between endorsing a member for their skills and the voting/reputation system is that the latter is community-oriented and based on community interactions while the former is truly based on ones qualifications and expertise on a more professional level.

It's jQuery, thanks.

Now that you all understand the premise behind endorsing members, what features would you like to see implemented? How can this new information of who endorses who be leveraged in a way that is beneficial?

OK so I created the link to ENDORSE in the top header for members who are logged in, and, to make room, I moved the link for the Member Rules down to the site footer.

This makes more sense because the ability to see all of your endorsement suggestions fits nicely next to viewing watched articles and private messages.

Meanwhile, the Member Rules makes more sense next to our Terms of Service and such. Additionally, this lets our Rules page be accessible by everyone instead of just logged in members, so that's an added bonus.

I'm trying to take AD's advice and create a custom page with a big list of endorsement suggestions. Still working on it :)

The link to search for members is on every page for moderators only.

Also, based on the way the system has been designed, it offers you more suggestions as to whom to endorse if you are more of the question asker versus the question answerer. As you can imagine, being the person asking for help from others puts you into a better position to come into contact with and endorse the skillset of those coming to your aid.

Wouldn't it be easier to just give us a complete list and let us check the members we want to entorse? Or is the complete list all 1,000,000 DaniWeb members?

The list is potentially infinitely long and constantly changing, evolving as you interact on the site.

The list probably contains the recent active members or members with high amount of posts/ reputation/solved threads from the forum your most active with

It's a little more complex than that. It attempts to seek out members of the community that you have interacted with.

It's hard to make a community endorse a member on their expertise without actually making or doing business on Daniweb.

If you have a tough questions that you keep posting, and someone in the community keeps answering you, then you can endorse their knowledge on the subject. IMHO it goes above and beyond just giving them a +1 or community reputation points for their post.

Here's the other part of it to come ...

Back when we were in the old vBulletin forum system, there was a vB feature where members could "friend" other members, who would show up in their member profile. However, beyond that, there really was no point to members friending members.

The goal here was to build upon that idea of creating networks of members within their profiles, but in a way that had value. There will most likely be a column in member profiles that lists the member's you've endorsed.

The endorsement suggestions on member profile pages are custom to the individual members. It gives you recommendations based on your personal activity, and hopefully the suggestions it gives make sense to you. Otherwise, you're free to just click on the Skill Endorsement tab in a member profile to endorse a member.

It's a new feature that I'm rolling out slowly. The idea is to first get the first impressions and community reaction to it, and then, over time, build upon it in a way that is most beneficial.

The next step is for the bottom of forum listings to show the top members who have received the most endorsements in that section.

Currently we allow people to vote and give reputation points whether they like or dislike a post for any reason. This is meant to go hand-in-hand with the question I asked in the other thread about whether people have made any professional connections on DaniWeb. The idea is for it to be more of a true measure of how much the community endorses a member's expertise in a particular subject area ... versus reputation which is much more subjective based on if a member is personally likeable or rubs you the wrong way or not.

DaniWeb is not affiliated with that Twitter user. They are using a service such as Twitterfeed to pull RSS feeds into their twitter account.

I think what Jim means is that people will randomly bump threads in the hope that in the future they'll be marked solved. But if someone really cared that much, odds are they would have been doing it already just for the Solved Threads stats.

All contributors who posted before the purple bar get the 'solved thread' stat. New contributors who posted after the thread has already been solved don't.

Only 3 are listed for the sake of space, as more than that would take up multiple lines at low resolutions, and some threads have 20+ solvers. Most solved threads, however, only have 1 or 2 solvers, so it's not an overwhelmingly noticable issue. The top 3 listed are determined based on those who have the most posts in the thread.

Yes, it's just impossible for me to mention everything I'm doing every day. Often they are very small changes. I rely on members starting feedback threads such as this to clue me in as to which little things are a bigger hit than others.

I add and change things just about daily. I'll often make mention of what I'm doing in my twitter feed. If it's a big change, then I'll post a thread asking what people think of it.

More interesting in a good way?

It's a new feature I just finished working on.

This should be fixed.

Hmm ... that's not by design :( Please link me to the article in question. Thanks!

Feel free to tag things in that category with photoshop, etc.

http://www.daniweb.com/tags/photoshop

We used to have a Web Design category within Web Development with a focus on things like Photoshop, etc. However, it wasn't very popular and got rolled up into "Web Design, HTML and CSS"

http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/web-design-html-and-css/15

Because there are new since either the last time you visited the forum or a few weeks ago, whichever is later.

It's an indication of whether the forum is already all read, or contains unread posts. A forum becomes read in one of three ways:

1. You've actually read all posts made in the forum within the past few weeks.
2. You've marked the forum as read by clicking on the 'Mark Forum Read' link or double-clicking the yellow icon to turn it grey.
3. You've read the newest post in the forum. A forum is considered read if you've read the latest thing it currently has to offer.

First, the existing moderation team must feel like there is currently a need for new moderators (we currently do). Next, you must be recommended by an existing moderator as a good candidate, and then the rest of the moderation team has a discussion and votes on whether to extend an invitation. It is an invite-only thing :)

As far as what the requirements are: a good candidate is an expert in their field and visits DaniWeb on a regular basis, but even much more importantly, is good at dealing with people, uses excellent judgement, works very well on a team, is mature, does not take things personally, has the same overall direction and goals in line as we do for the future of the community, agrees with the majority of and is able to follow our posting guidelines, and can make impartial decisions.

Deceptikon, only administrators have that functionality :) Staff writers use the Editorial Workshop accessible from the link in the footer, but even that is limited to just Staff Writers.