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gerry replied on May 14, 2009 08:59 to the idea "Add SVG support to uploading icons" in Wakoopa:

TBH, I used to post ideas/bugs here but I often found that it would get ignored or it took a very long time to get a response. Where as posting in the comments on the blog got it noticed. I've mentioned that before on here, but that point also got ignored. :)

Either way, thanks for posting it.

gerry replied on May 10, 2009 04:37 to the problem "Signup email not being sent to certain addresses" in MilkandCookies Network:

Yeah I posted this about 3 months ago and as you know I've long since had an account so it doesn't really concern me any more. I imagine you may be able to test what is happening by outputting a debug line in the code just before the email is sent, showing the email address that it is trying to send to and then trying to sign up using a email with a period and addition sign somewhere in the username segment, just like in my example above. If you need help testing this with an actual email I'm only to happy to assist.

gerry replied on April 30, 2009 17:32 to the idea "Digg style "reviews" / Useful Reviews stay on Page 1" in Wakoopa:

I wrote about my disapproval of the current points system when it was first added for this very reason:
http://blog.wakoopa.com/2008/10/27/yo...

So surely this foresight gives me a bit more clout now? Maybe not, but whatever...

I half like this idea. Personally I think losing a point for writing a review that people consider bad is not the best idea. Just because something is unpopular does not make it invalid and I don't believe people should be punished for contributing something that is unpopular. But spam is an issue and you don't want to give points to spammers. I don't know how feasable this system is, however I believe the ideal situation from a quality and fairness perspective would be where somebody is awarded points for every review they have that has an average vote of over a set number. eg. Score x points for every review that has an average of 4 or higher (yes this does mean that over time you could lose some points). This would ensure that spam reviews are never rewarded but at the same time rewarding reviews that are really popular and not punishing people for posting reviews that could be unpopular (as this would lead to audience pandering reviews)

However to be quite blunt, I personally feel that the point system is already polluted beyond repair, with spammers ranking higher than regular users, based on rules which have been around from the beginning. I am generally against point systems as they usually promote the wrong kind of activity no matter how well intentioned, but it's made even worse when that point system isn't even focused on rewarding quality.

A comment on the idea "Tracking Firefox Add-ons" in Wakoopa:

What do you mean? It wouldn't even need to be a part of the browser as far as I can see. I don't think it would be able to track how long you use each extension as usage is a different thing for every extension, I think it would just be a list of which ones you have installed/enabled. The regular tracker could just scan your extension directory. – gerry, on April 23, 2009 15:24

Seldaiendil's reply to "wakoopa for linux" was just promoted to the most useful! gerry and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I use windows on my work because I have to, but in home I have two computers with GNU/Linux with a lot of applications than I want to promote.

gerry replied on April 15, 2009 02:33 to the question "Why can't I listen to Pandora in Canada anymore?" in Pandora:

> What matters is where the music is streamed, not where your headquarters are.

Sorry, I wasn't really clear, I meant moving everything to a different country, including the servers. One countries laws do not affect the laws in another country.

As an example, if somebody was to make a website on a US server criticizing the Chinese government, there's nothing the Chinese government could do to stop them even though the information could be "streamed" to people living in China.

So I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.

gerry replied on April 10, 2009 23:17 to the question "Why can't I listen to Pandora in Canada anymore?" in Pandora:

No offense, but look how far "honoring" the DMCA has gotten you. I think you should move operations to country that has respect for Internet business. Your not going to do right by artists, labels and publishers by running yourselves out of business, even if it's their rules that does it. You guys allowed yourselves to be shut off to the majority of the world and now they are attempting to shut you off completely.

gerry marked one of Lucia's replies in Pandora as useful. Lucia replied to the question "Does Pandora have keyboard shortcuts?".

gerry replied on April 10, 2009 22:53 to the question "Does Pandora have keyboard shortcuts?" in Pandora:

OMG you're kidding! I wish I'd known this before! It should be in a tooltip when you put your mouse over the buttons. I've been using pandora for years and always wished I had a shortcut to play/pause it.

gerry started following the idea "Tracking Firefox Add-ons" in Wakoopa.

gerry replied on March 19, 2009 17:15 to the question "Yeah but what's the 1st most popular?" in Wakoopa:

I see, thanks for that Menno. :)

Off Topid: Glad I found out the screenshot plugin of Compiz, makes creating screenshots to demonstrate what I'm saying dead simple.

gerry replied on March 19, 2009 16:59 to the problem "Can't change avatar." in Wakoopa:

Just tested and the upload works for me, but as Robert said it remains cached.

@Robert: In case you wanted to address this on your end. You can generate a random number for the user every time the upload a new profile pic and then append it to the end of the url of the profile pic whenever you call it.
eg. src="http://static.wakoopa.com/images/people/25907/picture.png?34987394"

You can use this trick all over your site to reduce calls to your server:
http://blog.httpwatch.com/2007/12/10/...

gerry replied on March 19, 2009 16:39 to the question "Yeah but what's the 1st most popular?" in Wakoopa:

Thanks for responding, I really appreciate that!

I just checked and my OS filter was set to display everything (not that I would ever set it to mac anyway as I don't use one). I just set it to Windows only and then refreshed but there was no change to the position of "AVG Anti-Virus" on that "most used" list, it still is ranked number 1, yet number 3 on it's page.

http://wakoopa.com/categories/securit...

gerry marked one of Jinnan Cai's replies in Buzka as useful. Jinnan Cai replied to the question "Side screen GO AWAY!!!".

gerry started following the question "When comes next linux beta (0.2.3) version?" in Wakoopa.

gerry replied on March 15, 2009 12:12 to the question "Yeah but what's the 1st most popular?" in Wakoopa:

Still wondering what the most popular anti-virus is... :(
Seriously am I just not seeing the link? Seems very odd that you would have a reference (in big bold letters at the top of the page) to a popularity rank and then not have a list.

gerry started following the idea "Sh*t is on Fire!!! Linux is a PLATFORM DUDE!! RECOGNIZE!!" in Wakoopa.

gerry started following the idea "Push tracker info manually" in Wakoopa.

gerry started following the idea "wakoopa for linux" in Wakoopa.

gerry replied on March 12, 2009 15:34 to the idea "Block and Remove buttons next to each app on your personal Usage list!" in Wakoopa:

This has been requested numerous times before, so I'm glad to see it's implementation now.