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The reason I ask is that I been a member for over two years and "NOT" once has mine class date changed by a technical computer clitch with "Connect Platform" software design or by the stroke of my computer keyboard. Your replies are important before I post a blog that specifically outlays some of the control features that the technical crew on "Connect Platform" has and we can have an intelligent discussion hopefully to resolve some of the outstanding computer technical issues!!! Have a great day everyone!
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Friday, November 30th 2012 at 10:06AM
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Gonna be a busy day for me Jake, but I am still concerned about this. I do believe Reginald is looking into it.
Friday, November 30th 2012 at 2:32PM
Steve Williams
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hopefully the sillyBleak or sillyBlack things will be resolved
but your Question could also be "How many BIA members have noticed that the BIA Preamble states that Black In America is an online community for African American men, women, and families, and want to shatter negative stereotypes and misconceptions.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 9:47AM
powell robert
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Jake,
If you compare the Who's online Class: field with the member profile data you will see other members who have not entered education data yet they are still shown with a Class: xxxx year. But even more interesting, Siebra is online with Class: 2001, yet her profile shows Graduating Class: 1999.
So the problem is with the Who's online data, not James's profile. Who's online is supplying Class: data where none exists, as well as sometimes an incorrect date even where it does exist.
Perhaps this feature (Who's online) was designed around HBCU Connect, with the assumption that members there would all have a "Class Of" field.
Knowing software as I do, this is a software bug of the type where the software fails to correctly handle an "exception" case. The problem is on the Connect Platform side.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 3:19PM
Steve Williams
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So on further review, I am going to guess that when Who's online is generated, when a Class date is not found in a given member's profile, the Class date of the previous member in the list is used. Again, a common type of software bug.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 3:31PM
Steve Williams
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Go ahead and forward this info to Reginald, but be aware that sometimes software bugs will not be fixed if they are considered less important relative to other items of higher priority. Again, from my experience as a software engineer who had to deal with very lengthy lists of software bugs which were prioritized by severity.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 3:36PM
Steve Williams
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I just checked the list again and James is at the top of the list and has no Class date. Nor does the bogus member listed following him. The third member listed (Earl) is the first with a valid Class date.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 4:08PM
Steve Williams
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There are other fields in Who's online that are incorrect as well. In fact, there is a ton of incorrect data in Who's online. I would not rely on it at all, only the authentic information in a member's profile.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 4:22PM
Steve Williams
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Jake, I will register a bug report with Technical Support.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 4:30PM
Steve Williams
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Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 5:55PM
Steve Williams
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No problem Jake. I've worked on a lot of bugs in my time and this looks like a bug. It's been logged with Technical Support as a bug. If they determine it to be not a bug but rather malicious activity, I'm sure they will fix it.
Saturday, December 1st 2012 at 7:35PM
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