Where's my monthly duke dollars?

according to the faq "Duke dollars: JDC members acquire Duke Dollars upon registration, then again on a monthly basis. "
I dont know enough to earn dukes (yet)... so i count on getting this... otherwise i will have to continue being cheap! I dont like being miserly with my dukes : (
PS While i have your attention, Christmas is coming - so can i make a request for "lots" of dukes?? ; )

they are hiding under the Chrismas Tree.

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SDN Forum points vs Sun Forum Duke Dollars

I believe that a points system is a great way to encourage participation by the community in problem solving.
With the points system in SDN, however, there is room for abuse, for example, by having people you know award points to you on threads.
I personally like the points reward system (Duke Dollars) on Sun's Developer Forums. In this scheme, you work with credits. Every user is given a certain amount of points (Duke Dollars) when they join. When you post a question, you can assign a number of Duke Dollars up front from your available credit as a reward to entice responses. You can also accumulate more Dollars by answering threads which have Dollars assigned.
Every month, Sun gives a gift to the user who has accumulated the most points.
I'm not sure that this solves the problem of users not assigning points for valid help, but, because users are working with limited credit, it does force them to be careful when assigning points, and prevents abuse as that mentioned above.
I would like to hear what other people think about this scheme. Perhaps there are aspects I have not considered.
Regards,
Martin

Would a moderator make it more positive?
Actually Craig went into each of the forums and published a "rules of engagement". Maybe that kind of a "sticky note" post would be the place to remind people about the inappropriateness of redundant questions (across various forums) and the confusion and poor sporting behavior associated with "copied" answers. I can ping Craig with that suggestion to add text if you think it makes sense to "remind" people in each of the respective forums.
Or..to be a little more provocative, we could suggest that community members who have a good track record of participation, collaboration, and exemplary attitude be given the moderator rights in forums where the activity volume might be too overwhelming for an SAP moderator alone to manage and given the rights to move content to a more appropriate thread.
This is what I meant about "self-policing". Also, perhaps the moderators (internal as well as SAP) could identify themselves in a sticky post and invite participants in those designated threads to track "abuses" or issues, thus identifying them and hopefully resolving them publically.
Strange, it reminds me that in old, Puritanical, America, of the 17th century community culprits were subjected to a public dunking or stocks when they broke the law. The purpose being that public condemnation sent a clear message to other "would be" misbehavers.... and thus deterred further bad conduct.
While a rather radical and unpleasant method it was an open way of dealing with abuses to the system.
Perhaps others can offer less extreme and more effective suggestions here
Marilyn

How do you add Duke Dollars to a post???

How do you get the little Duke Dollars thingy to show up next to your post? There are no buttons to do so on the page where I'm ttyping this, nor on the preview page. Nor does it say anything about it in the Duke Dollars FAQ.

Oh never mind! I saw the option to add Dukes appear after the message was posted.
IMHO you should be able to add Dukes either on the form or the preview page.

Who has the most duke dollars?

Is there a place in the JDC where you find find a list of who had the most duke dollars? I think they had this a long time ago, but I'm not sure what happend to it.
Thanks,
Strider

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/dd.jshtml#winners
(Do I get any duke dollars for this?)

Has anyone gotten their monthly dukes???

Hi,
I love to give out dukes!! I wish i had more of 'em.
So i have kept an eye on my account, waiting to see
that "monthly" refresher.
Is anyone getting their monthly dukes? Is this a practice they have stopped, but forgot to update their dukes bullitin board? Its like waiting for Christmas & Christmas never comes : (
Maybe i've been a bad girl.

gseel: i think you EARNED those duke dollars... i dont think my code was exactly easy to follow & i sincerely appreciated the help.
Esoral: the link was good, but it seems there is something not quite right here... the BB regarding dukes says that once a month we get dukes... seems to me im not the onlyone who is missing a few dukes,among other things ; )
I did write to the webMaster over a week ago... still no response other than "forwarded it to the appropriate person"...

Give duke dollars

If you say you are going to give duke dollars, then give duke dollars. :o)

Ah, that is meant by this -
sorry, I have sometimes problems to understand the meaning of some saying - I am not a native english speaker. You are right - but, I guess, some newbies don't know how to award a good answer - I read this in a post, where a guy wants to award a reply, not knowing how to do that.
greetings Marsian
P.S.: I am not a Martian boy :) - this name is a fantasy name used in MUDs, derived from the Roman god of wars "Mars" and converted to a name in the same way as "Christ" is converted to "Christian".

How are duke dollars distributed?

Hi all,
I wonder.... For the last 2 months, I replied on several messages with Duke Dollars on it. But those Duke dollars were never attributed to anyone. Very often there wasn't even a feedback from the person that posted the message.
What happens with those dollars?
Marc

Don't let others fool you.
I am collecting all unassigned dukes. Just post the
threads you have been answering and I'll make sure you
get those dukes (charging only a small fee).Don't trust him! He said he would collect for me but instead he intimidated the user into giving him all their Duke Dollars!

InetAddress Timeout (Duke Dollars Available)

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code to correct this will lead to ten duke dollars.

for a java help forum, why does nobody want to be at
all helpful, i am really stuck and would be really
greatful of some helpUm, hardly any time has passed yet. Don't start copping an attitude just yet...
But as alluded to, the duke dollars are utterly worthless. If I wanted 10 more dukes to add to my pile, I could (but wouldn't) just create another login ID, post a fake "question", answer myself with this ID, and award them to "myself".
Do you actually have a question, other than "will someone do my work/thinking for me"?

I'm not being given new Duke Dollars

Hey all,
I read through the FAQs and they say I'm supposed to get 10 Duke Dollars each month as long as I login at least once a month. I've been logging in and helping others with the little bit of knowledge I have (I'm still a beginner).. but I'm not getting any new Duke Dollars..
Is anyone else having the same problem?
Kenny

Oh Great, I wish I had known that before I gave all of
mine away... sigh how are newbies supposed to get
questions answered? I certainly can't answer other
people's questions to get dollars... I'm a fricking
newbie!I never answer questions based on dukes. I don't believe most people do either. So it shouldn't matter.
And even as a newbie it might be possible for you to answer some questions.

Using WAIT to repeatedly check a file !!Duke dollars!!

I have created this method, it is supposed to read a text file when a button is pressed after i have allocated an amount of time to check the text file. the text file must be checked every 2mins or so to see if there have been any changes!
i have some code here but 'wait(10000)' doesnt seem to have any effect!
can anybody help
theres 15 duke dollars in it for the best solution
cheers everyone
private void polling()
try {
wait(10000);
} catch (Exception e){
try {
Stack male = new Stack();
          Stack female = new Stack();
          File esbian = new File("02May2002_Test_Facts.txt");
          FileReader ond = new FileReader(esbian);
          BufferedReader hecker = new BufferedReader(ond);
int ef;
String incident = "INCIDENT" ;
          while (true)
               String lum = new String();
               String umber = "";
               String olyfeck = hecker.readLine();
               if (olyfeck == null)
                    break;
               StringTokenizer tarman = new StringTokenizer(olyfeck);
               while (tarman.hasMoreTokens())
umber = tarman.nextToken();
                    for( ef=0; ef < 1; ef++)
umber = umber.replace('\u0028' , '\u0020');
umber = umber.replace('\u0029' , '\u0020');
                    umber = umber.trim().toUpperCase();
if (umber.equals("INCIDENT" ) || umber.equals("EVENT") ||umber.equals("ALARM") || umber.equals("FAULTRECORD") || umber.equals("INTERPRETEDFAULTRECORD"))
lum = umber;
                         agentout.append("subscription succeeded: " + umber + "\r\n");
          hecker.close();
catch(IOException efe)
     System.err.println("ERROR: " + efe) ;
} // end of method polling

I have created this method, it is supposed to read a text file when a button is pressed after i have allocated an amount of time to check the text file. the text file must be checked every 2mins or so to see if there have been any changes!
i have some code here but 'wait(10000)' doesnt seem to have any effect!
can anybody help
theres 15 duke dollars in it for the best solution
cheers everyone
private void polling()
try {
wait(10000);
} catch (Exception e){
try {
Stack male = new Stack();
          Stack female = new Stack();
          File esbian = new File("02May2002_Test_Facts.txt");
          FileReader ond = new FileReader(esbian);
          BufferedReader hecker = new BufferedReader(ond);
int ef;
String incident = "INCIDENT" ;
          while (true)
               String lum = new String();
               String umber = "";
               String olyfeck = hecker.readLine();
               if (olyfeck == null)
                    break;
               StringTokenizer tarman = new StringTokenizer(olyfeck);
               while (tarman.hasMoreTokens())
umber = tarman.nextToken();
                    for( ef=0; ef < 1; ef++)
umber = umber.replace('\u0028' , '\u0020');
umber = umber.replace('\u0029' , '\u0020');
                    umber = umber.trim().toUpperCase();
if (umber.equals("INCIDENT" ) || umber.equals("EVENT") ||umber.equals("ALARM") || umber.equals("FAULTRECORD") || umber.equals("INTERPRETEDFAULTRECORD"))
lum = umber;
                         agentout.append("subscription succeeded: " + umber + "\r\n");
          hecker.close();
catch(IOException efe)
     System.err.println("ERROR: " + efe) ;
} // end of method polling

Assigning duke dollars

How do I award Duke dollars to the best respondent to my question?

After you post a question, there will be a hyperlink like "assign duke dollar" in the page of your post. Follow it to assign the duke dollar to your question. To reward the duke dollar to the response, you have to log in first, open your post, then you can see a icon in front of every repsponse, you can click the one you want to reward.

I wanna assign you ALL my Duke Dollars....

...for a new question i have BUT b4 I can do that I need to retrive back the duke dollars from my earlier messages that haven't been answered and have my dollars gathering dust...how on earth do i do that?

Silkm I have no issues with assigning you all my dukes from all those earlier questions...just go there, type anything and I will assign them to you if u can solve my query...
It's gotta do with setting the classpath...and yes, i have already been thru google and forums here...
This is what i do:
- Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced>Environment Variables
- Click on Path in the System Variables section
- Click Edit and add C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.1_01\bin AFTER %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;
- Next I go to DOS and get my C prompt to C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.1_01\bin
- I type javac helloworld.java and ENTER
- I get "javac is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"
So then I go back to Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced>Environment Variables
- This time I click on New in the "User Variables for Gaurav" section(that's me) - after all i am logged in as Gaurav on my XP machine!
- I type Path in Variable Name and C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.1_01\bin in Variable Value
- Save
- goto DOS
- type helloworld.java and get "javac is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"
BTW i have installed j2re-1_4_1_01-windows-i586 on a XP machine
HELP!

How do you award duke dollars

How do you award duke dollars

At the top of your post, ther will be an option to "Assign" duke dollars. Once you assign them to your post, you will see an option to "Award" duke dollars in the header of the replies to the post.
Why don't you assign a few to this post to witness that! :-)
Kamran

Next/previous links? Duke dollars...

I am offering Duke Dollars for help in creating next/previous links here:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=45&thread=183010
I was told that I should ask here as there may be more help here...

Actually I think that respondant was suggesting that you search the JDBC forum - they had already posted some information in here.

HI what are duke dollars?

Hi everyone, just joined the JDC - I am a complete newbie here, what are DUKE DOLLARS? Can you educate me on some things you guys do on the forums? Thanks! :)
cp_l0g1ck

That's in the FAQ which you can see here: http://forum.java.sun.com/faq.jsp

Where's my monthly duke dollars?

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