Posts by happygeek

Welcome

I appreciate it as well, as the person who writes the newsletter including the comments in question... :)

I have been tidying up the mess left behind by the troll that was dttp, who has now been perma-banned, and that included deleting the negative reputation left by that account as I felt it wasn't fair on members to be negativelty impacted by the actions of a troll... I appear to have mistakenly removed a postive rep that dttp left for you,for which I apologise, however it would make no practical difference as that reputation (as you can see from all your remaining rep, all from dttp by the way) is worth 0 re points anyway.

Woj: Give it up. No amount of squirming is going to help you escape this one. IP alone means not a lot, IP in conjunction with everything else does. Random IP distribution would be hard pressed to find two trolls with the exact same outlook/MO, and as for living in the same block of flats... ditto (one would have killed the other by now). End of the day, we all know who you are and you know who you are. If you don't like that (and I wouldn't if I were Woj) then you know where the delete membership button is.

@dtpp/wojciech1 If you really want me to air your dirty washing in public here I will. Needless to say, most folk when accused of being someone else might say 'who?' or 'no I am not' rather than ask for proof. However, what are the chances of someone different but with the exact same troll attitude as a previous troll who was exposed on DaniWeb as a liar (claiming to run a large and successful forum when the actual owner, who diafol spoke to at length, had never heard of the chap) and the exact same modus operandi (slagging off DaniWeb and Dani, claiming to know how best to run it, making demands etc etc) accessing DaniWeb from the exact same IP address in Poland?

In case anyone is in any doubt, here is a typical Woj the Troll post from six months ago:

I like to be able to say freely what I think is not done right/what I dislike and why. To keep things clear - if I were Dani, I'd run DW differently - Id pay more attention to what users have to say (as of correcting/introducing features) etc. How many of things suggested by me in Feedback section has been implemented? None. That shows attitude Dani has. I requested alot there. I'll not praise Dani for doing nothing. Thats not that I dont like praising, I just dont see what Dani should be praised for.... This webapp is full of unfinished features (have a …

Oh, and @dtpp or should I say wojciech1 do you still want to deny being a troll?

In which case you are winning.

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@dtpp: Voicing your opinion is good. Ignoring everything that comes back in response to your opinion, which doesn't meet your world view, isn't. You continue to respond with the 'roll it back' line, over and over. You continue to suggest that this should be done because 'a group of users' has demanded it when, in fact, a handful of users have said they don't like the new system and even less have called for it to go back to how it was. You wilfully refuse to accept that taking business decisions upon the demands of one or two vocal users, even a small group if your prefer that terminology, would be rash at best and stupid in the eyes of most folk. You continue to state assumptions as fact, despite being told you are factually wrong. These are the reasons I have you down as troll material...

Bangs head on desk...

Stops feeding the troll.

No, it isn't only you. However, neither is it a majority of DaniWeb members or anywhere near it. So far, since the chnages went live, no more than a dozen people have posted anything to say they don't like it. Of those, their initial concerns were tempered by changes that Dani made in response to their reasonable suggestions and they went on to say they were OK with it as a result.

What is only you, however, is someone who simply keeps repeating "I don't like it, change it back. I don't like it, change it back" while refusing to engage in any meaningful dialogue beyond that. And, for the record, we don't include 'Dani doesn't know what she is doing' or 'you are all ignorant' as being meaningful.

Who is saying 'no because of no' exactly?

I repeat, go back and read what Dani has said already. She has made the reasons for changing to the tagging system quite clear, you have apparently chosen to ignore those. Fair enough, that's your perogative. However, you are now sounding more and more just like a troll that requires feeding...

And, for the record, DaniWeb has been one of the most responsive of sites that I've ever been involved with when it comes to listening to users and making changes based upon that input. However, that doesn't mean that everything you say should happen is going to happen, nor should it.

@dtpp: "And big yes - business (especially the one which deals with users) will be quickly down if they do not listen to what users (no matter how many of them) have to say......."

Here we go again. OK, so you have put your case for the system to roll back as it was, we implement that according to your view of how business should work. Great. Then someone else comes along and says, actually I preferred the new system, so we should then swap back to that right? Do you not see the complete and total folly in what you are arguing for?

@dtpp: "Dont say that Dani always actively measuring how changes impact upon traffic, and bases her decisions upon that and other factors. Its simply not true here; or Dani does not know how to do it correctly"

Christ on a bike, really? And you know this how? I've known Dani for close on 10 years. I have been an admin here for close on 10 years. I know what Dani does a lot better than you.

@dtpp: "if I saw that changes I made caused drop in activity, Id roll them back without hesitation"

Again, your selective reading process has filtered out the parts where Dani has mentioned that traffic has risen since the changes were implemented, not dropped.

@dtpp: "people dont like it"

Correction, some people don't like. In fact, I think the total number who have said they don't like it on DaniWeb is less than a dozen...

@dtpp: "if she shows her ability to listen"

I suggest you eat your own dogfood here (take your own advice) and do the same.

@dtpp: "why not stop this by doing what we want? Any reason for this?"

Do you seriously think that any site, any business, would run best if it made changes at the behest of a handful of users every time they asked for those changes?

Actually, the message that this particular topic/thread sends out is that half a dozen people don't like it...

That doesn't mean that Dani won't be taking the thoughts of those members on board, but nor does it mean that all users, most users, even a lot of users don't like the changes. Dani is always actively measuring how changes impact upon traffic, and bases her decisions upon that and other factors.

As for 'why not roll them back to what it was before' I do seriously wonder sometimes if you actually read these threads, or at least the comments that don't reflect your own world view. Diafol, for example, has answered this numerous times across numerous threads that you are involved in.

On the flip side of the coin, not every user who finds DaniWeb helpful (and doesn't seem to have a problem with the interface - especially newbies who would know nothing else from DaniWeb) is vocal in posting about it in public. However, I do get a fair dose of private messages such as the following, which would seem to suggest it's not all doom and gloom, and that the interface isn't as impenetrable as some people here would have us believe.

"Thanks, I found your board very helpful, your members give better description on what you need to do. On some boards it's often a "just do this." without any logic. I always wondered why people answered like this, it's like they didn't want to be bothered. I believe if your going to help give it 110%, to a new user that means a lot."

Family time is always time well spent. Enjoy!!!

PS. Say hello to your mum from me.

Please refer to our rules which state: "provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments"

If you can show that evidence, by way of the code you have so far and where you are getting stuck, maybe someone can help you out. As it stands, you have just copied your homework assignment and seem to be expecting someone else to do it for you - ain't gonna happen!

Welcome Javier, someone who is always learning is never a dummy...

Aye. The international game will miss them, more than they probably realise.

Good game in the end, in fact probably more like a great game. For AUS to fight back from 21-3 down in the way they did was brilliant, and NZ showed just how beautiful rugby can be when played with consumate skill and a team that actually believes it is a team rather than a bunch of talented individuals.

True.

I hate to say it (because it makes for a boring final) but I think it's going to be one-way traffic for the All Blacks. Australia just remind me of Shania Twain: don't impress me much :)

I thought that Aus were poor against Argentina across the whole of the game. If Argentina had woken up and started playing 10 minutes earlier it would have been a very different outcome.

Can you confirm that a 'non social media login' will remain for accessing DaniWeb (rather than the already started creating a post scenario in this thread) as I think that's what DenisOxon was getting at in his last post?

I suspect it will be NZ v Aus as well, which will most likely be a rather boring (and predictable) game I reckon. NZ v Arg would be better, and less predictable, but for sheer excitement I suspect SA v Arg would be the match to watch.

I think, overall, South Africa deserved the win. That second half was just all SA, and it broke Wales in the end.

Ireland showed themselves up as rather weak (unlike Wales) when missing just a few kingpin players. Argentina absolutely smashed them off the field.

NZ/France was a non-event as France didn't turn up (again).

However, Scotland were well and truly robbed by the match officials. I can't recall a recent match that was officiated so badly, and to such sad effect. The ref running off without shaking hands at the end says it all, he knew he had screwed up. But then so did the assistants and the TMO to all of them miss Hogg being dumped off the pitch in a very late tackle (a certain penalty, no doubt about it) just before the final incident. Talking of which, everyone I have spoken to and all the commentators/experts have said it wasn't a penalty. I heard on Radio 4 this morning that three international refs had all said they would have gone to the TMO over it, courtesy of the importance of the timing, despite it not being within the official remit of when you can send stuff to the TMO.

Full credit to the Scottish players for not making a huge fuss on the pitch, and the management for not making a huge fuss afterwards. At least they, unlike Joubert, did not put the game into disrepute. Running off the pitch like that was so cowardly, such …

jkon, he was taking stuff which he'd found as a result of a search and then pasting paragraphs as his own answer. In one case he pasted something defining an acronym which refered to a medical condition rather than the programming thing being asked about.

Which page are you talking about in your repcomment above?

Apart from three which were all grabbed from the web and pasted wholesale, one not even relevant to the question as he obviously knows jack shit. Now banned.

And you posted that comment to a dead, five year old thread, with absolutely no relevance to the issue you are complaing about, for why?

The post you are commenting to seems to have been someone stuck with their homework who posted code, asked questions, got help, was happy. So where's the problem with that again?

Anyway, what this thread does show is that if someone asking for help abides by the rules here which clearly state:

provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments

then they tend to get the help they are asking for. However, if someone just wants DaniWeb members to do their homework for them then that ain't going to happen. Simple as. If, as the person asking for the help, you don't want to abide by the rules on DaniWeb then, to quote your own words, move along.

Point of order: the original poster seemed to work it out for themselves, with a little help from DaniWeb, in this particular case. I agree about matercado20, although I think the language used is too harsh and out of order, but the OP posted code, asked for help and responded to questions before working out the answer.

let alone the forum rules (which seem to have disappeared.

They have been incorporated into the Terms of Service, which makes sense. Click on the ToS button at the bottom of the page, then there's a link to the rules in the second para of the page that opens up.

Here's the direct one: https://www.daniweb.com/community/rules

You could look at the dates of the posts you are commenting upon. I doubt he's still looking for SEO help some FOUR YEARS later. If he is, then all hope is lost.

Burgess. Soooooooo overrated, in my opinion. At least in Union. At least at the moment. He cannot kick for toffee, yet makes the decision to kick way too often for example. I really don't get the whole Burgess thing myself.

1. Type PHP into the search box, and boom you are (effectively) there - allowing for the fact that there is no php subforum of course :)

In which case I'm thinking that the "provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments" rule applies here...

Australia, Ireland, South Africa and Argentina all looking good at the moment. At least NZ have some proper competition.

Not inlcuding Wales in there, Alan, purely as I think the squad is too depleted right now and wasn't playing that well at full strength to start with. We will see if that turns out to be the case when they take on Aus next week as you say.

Nothing to say about that England performance, other than there was no performance in it. <correction> unless you include pantomime </correction>

Hopefully, as that post was a year old, he's found one by now. That said, anyone who is running a 'SEO training institute' as his sig suggests should really know the answer already. Unless, of course, it was just sig spam (one visit, one post, never returned to bother with reading the answer...)

Welcome, but take a minute and read the rules before posting as it will help prevent you from posting any more thinly disguised spam. In particular take note of "ensure that all posts contain relevant content and substance and are not simply vehicles for external links" - hint: someone with a signature declaring they are a web design company in India should not be posting a 'question' asking which is the best web design company in India.

There is no 'new sandbox' just a new name for the same old, same old that's been around for the longest time to help in the anti-spam fight here.

It's already been vaped, hasn't it?

If people use the tag system properly then posts will be tagged appropriately. As there is no geeks' lounge forum any longer, I don't expect to see too many posts being tagged in that manner. However, I would expect to see stuff tagged with things like 'jokes' 'chatter' or 'food' for example. That's how the system is meant to work, and would enable you to quickly find posts that are joke threads or food related...

How about devil horns above the avatar for a mod, and angel wings for admins of course? ;-)

Uruguay. WTF? More like :)

Richard, an obvious question but someone has to ask it: have you contacted Microsoft support about this? I would imagine they are likely to be the most able (possibly the only ones able) to fix this for you.

...and the same reply applies:

What have you got so far? Please post the code you already have, even if it doesn't work.

What the Welsh Devil said.

I don't like change for the sake of it, and I don't like things I have got used to using becoming harder to use. That said, this change was required because DaniWeb was doomed to continue the slow death otherwise (actually, not so slow I suspect) - and once you understand the new way of doing things it's easier rather than harder.

I like it.

A lot.

its completely unusable now

Disagree. In what way is it 'unusable' exactly?

Just noticed that the blue burger menu is showing 'Web Applications' as a forum, but when you get there it is called 'Cloud-based Applications' instead.

See: https://www.daniweb.com/digital-media/digital-marketing/search-engine-strategies/threads/500121/which-is-the-best-socia-media-sites-for-smo

Please read the thread before posting.

the code is up there (points up). If you can't write it yourself, copy paste it.
There is no reason to re-open a dead thread.