Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Found the haystack!

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  • It's live now. A problem with some status not moving on auto publish, but the Corgi Contest is out: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/canine-corgi-completion-contest

    Not a great way to start a Monday, and someone is trying to determine why redirects went to that article.

  • Ed Wagner wrote:

    I just answered a couple of questions and the new site wants me to login repeatedly.  It doesn't tell me I'm not logged in when posting, but after I hit submit, my post isn't there and it tells me I have to login to be able to reply.  It's especially aggravating to type it all over again.  Granted, the posts weren't lengthy or anything, but I don't think the submit button should log people out. My temporary solution is to copy (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) my post before I hit submit. It did it again on this post. This is a pretty bad bug.

    Did you click the "Remember Me" box when you logged in? The site should not log you out between sessions. If you persist the cookie, I believe the login lifetime is 2 weeks, so as long as you do something in the 2 weeks, you stay logged in as the cookie updates.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    Ed Wagner wrote:

    I just answered a couple of questions and the new site wants me to login repeatedly.  It doesn't tell me I'm not logged in when posting, but after I hit submit, my post isn't there and it tells me I have to login to be able to reply.  It's especially aggravating to type it all over again.  Granted, the posts weren't lengthy or anything, but I don't think the submit button should log people out. My temporary solution is to copy (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) my post before I hit submit. It did it again on this post. This is a pretty bad bug.

    Did you click the "Remember Me" box when you logged in? The site should not log you out between sessions. If you persist the cookie, I believe the login lifetime is 2 weeks, so as long as you do something in the 2 weeks, you stay logged in as the cookie updates.

    Absolutely.  It happened several times and I made sure I checked the box every time.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    It's live now. A problem with some status not moving on auto publish, but the Corgi Contest is out: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/canine-corgi-completion-contest Not a great way to start a Monday, and someone is trying to determine why redirects went to that article.

    I blame the Russians! @=)

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  • Ed Wagner wrote:

    Absolutely.  It happened several times and I made sure I checked the box every time.

    If you could send some browser/OS stuff, and if it happens again, note the time, we can check logs. Drop a note to the webmaster@ with details. This shouldn't happen, but we'd like to track this down.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    Ed Wagner wrote:

    Absolutely.  It happened several times and I made sure I checked the box every time.

    If you could send some browser/OS stuff, and if it happens again, note the time, we can check logs. Drop a note to the webmaster@ with details. This shouldn't happen, but we'd like to track this down.

    No problem.  Will do.

  • Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    It's live now. A problem with some status not moving on auto publish, but the Corgi Contest is out: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/canine-corgi-completion-contest Not a great way to start a Monday, and someone is trying to determine why redirects went to that article.

    I blame the Russians! @=)

    No, it is the Chinese masquerading as the Russians. @=)

     

  • Lynn Pettis wrote:

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    It's live now. A problem with some status not moving on auto publish, but the Corgi Contest is out: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/canine-corgi-completion-contest Not a great way to start a Monday, and someone is trying to determine why redirects went to that article.

    I blame the Russians! @=)

    No, it is the Chinese masquerading as the Russians. @=)  

    No, it's actually the Taiwanese masquerading as the Chinese masquerading as the Russians.

    Luis C.
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  • Luis Cazares wrote:

    Lynn Pettis wrote:

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    It's live now. A problem with some status not moving on auto publish, but the Corgi Contest is out: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/canine-corgi-completion-contest Not a great way to start a Monday, and someone is trying to determine why redirects went to that article.

    I blame the Russians! @=)

    No, it is the Chinese masquerading as the Russians. @=)  

    No, it's actually the Taiwanese masquerading as the Chinese masquerading as the Russians.

    As long as it's not Section 31 masquerading as the Obsidian Order masquerading as the Tal Shiar masquerading as the Ghost of Captain Cutler, we should be fine.

    Now... How many of you get these references?

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  • Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    As long as it's not Section 31 masquerading as the Obsidian Order masquerading as the Tal Shiar masquerading as the Ghost of Captain Cutler, we should be fine. Now... How many of you get these references?

    Just 2; although I think a 3rd is from the same franchise.

    Thom~

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  • hey folks, long time ...

     

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  • So question, what's up with the points? I logged in and thought "Holy moley!  Gail's over one million and Jeff's almost there?!?  When are they sleeping?!"

    Then I looked at my score, 143,000?!?  Unless someone's been using my account, that doesn't add up, I only had like 10k last time I checked.

     

    I'm assuming that there's some new calculation?

     

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by  RBarryYoung.

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  • hmmm, i guess the formatting codes have changed a lot ...

     

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  • Welcome back, Barry. How are you? Long time no see.

     

    We changed the points a few years ago, awarding different amounts for articles, for posts marked as answers, etc. A bunch of things that scaled points up. You got credit for those.

    Formatting changed, and we're still cleaning up some older issues from previous embedded code.

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