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Incidentally, both your recent reported question were deleted by me. And I found that out when I came here to report them.
..Go Green..
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I'm not sure you should delete them - just flag them as spam and report them here - that way others can see and decide if they deserve a spammer report on the poster. Which helps to get rid of them all the quicker.
If the text of the offending messages is deleted, then we have to assume that whoever did it is truthful. While I'm sure you wouldn't try any such shenanigans, there are a few people I wouldn't trust...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I was going to ask this very question - if we should delete these spams or not? I always thought why should be bother the admins here if we can help them just by a click. But your post has a point and I won't be deleting them from now. Thanks!
OriginalGriff wrote: While I'm sure you wouldn't try any such shenanigans, there are a few people I wouldn't trust...
Like people who edit Wikipedia?!
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Ankurm/ wrote: Like people who edit Wikipedia?
Definitely don't trust them! I am a case in point, I occasionally edit Wiki, and I can't be trusted at all.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I can't be trusted at all.
I trust you.
To do what ever it is you want to do.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Tidy!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Spam messages here[^], here[^], and here[&]
User here[^]
More spam:
Messages here[^] and three here[^]
User here[^].
Some more:
Messages here[^] and here[^]
User has already been removed.
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
modified 11-Apr-12 2:15am.
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Fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Genetic Algorithm Library[^]
Would be helpful if we could directly request removal of spam entries like the one on this page. Thanks
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Why do you think that is spam? It looks like a reasonable article to me - not something I would be interested in, but not spam-like.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Why are you reporting your own article as spam?
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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I hadn't noticed he wrote it!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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The link I posted was to the comment posted on my article (notice this link ends with "?msg=4215062#xx4215062xx"), but since this spam comment was removed (thank you, whoever did that!), so link now opens the whole article)) Of course I wouldn't report my own article
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Well I did wonder. Honesty in spammers would be so refreshing though, don't you think?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Yeah, totally! When that day will come, most people would be saints probably.
I should have mentioned it was a message, not an article.
It just was so not nice to offer me some "designer" handbags. I always wondered how this stuff gets to CodeProject, I doubt many people on CodeProject would want "designer handbags". May be competitors are trying to spam the site...?
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Marketing Factories I suspect: people paid nearly nothing to post adverts for anything anywhere they can for twelve hours a day.
Think yourself lucky it was handbags - there are much, much worse things to be offered (particularly with pictures )
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The link I posted was to the comment posted on my article (notice this link ends with "?msg=4215062#xx4215062xx"), but since this spam comment was removed (thank you, whoever did that!), so link now opens the whole article)) Of course I wouldn't report my own article
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