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I never thought of that as an option.
I think I should also ask members not to post spam and to ensure their questions are well-posed and reasonable.
I have *no* idea why I didn't think of that before
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yeah, very funny Chris.
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Sorry, my bad. I think I forgot to actually copy the link after I clicked Permalink on the post...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I don't see any problem. The formatting is perfectly fine on my PC.
http://www.orthogonaltonormal.com/midden/CpWideWorksForMe.png[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Just for curiosity, what resolution do you have?
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in aggregate, 4960x1600[^], but that screenshot was taken on the central monitor alone.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nice one
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I updated the CSS, so if your browser hasn't picked up the new file a Ctrl+F5 should do the trick.
Thanks for letting me know - it's been insane here and I would have missed that one otherwise!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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He did it like this:
In some cases, my signature will be longer then my message...
ProgramFOX
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I know the HTML tags, but I thought images were not supported/allowed in forums and Q/A for "security" reason.
Nihil obstat
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One of the features of QA is the ability for high rep members to update others' posts. This provides enough cover that we can open it up and allow images.
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Fair enough.
Nihil obstat
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Given the recent influx of spam, should all new user accounts be moderated until they've posted at least three non-spam messages? It might not stop them posting their crap, but it would mean that nobody would click on the links, and Google wouldn't index them.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Three messages with "asdfikjhasfkln" somewhere and blocking gone.
It is very annoying, but I see it not so easy to protect it without affecting legitim new members.
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Nelek wrote: Three messages with "asdfikjhasfkln" somewhere and blocking gone.
A message of "asdfikjhasfkln" would be marked as spam, so it wouldn't count as a non-spam message.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I know, but... What if there are not so many people online / paying attention to report the first messages? without some kind of time limitation it is possible to bypass that number of messages.
And even though, they can create a bunch of accounts, write harmless answers to deal with the blockade and afterwards use them.
It can make it a bit more difficult for them, but not impossible. As I said, the only way to deal with that is affecting legitime new members.
If your solution was implemented and I was a new member needing to ask something with a link to an image to clarify something... how would I be able to do it?
It is annoying yes, but we can already deal with the spam, reporting, deleting the links or the posts and so on.
Don't make millions of potential new normal users pay for the stupidity of some spammers.
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Nelek wrote: What if there are not so many people to report the first messages?
I was thinking more along the lines of reversing it - the message needs to be approved by an appropriate member before it appears to everyone else. After three messages get approved, the members is no longer moderated and can post messages as normal. If any of the first three messages are spam, the account gets deleted.
Yes, it would be annoying for new members to have to wait for their message to be approved, but it's a solution that's used by many other sites without any major problems.
Nelek wrote: And even though, they can create a bunch of accounts, write harmless answers to deal with the blockade and afterwards use them.
It can make it a bit more difficult for them, but not impossible.
It's not about making it impossible to post spam; it's about making it harder to post spam. If they have to update their bots to post three legitimate messages first and wait for those messages to be approved before they start bombarding the site with crap, they'll probably move on to other, easier targets instead.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Ahm, ok.
The way you explained it at the beggining was not so clear (or at least I didn't understand you point)
This is already working in CP but only with the articles. The only problem I see is the overload of work for members that can "approve" accounts and the possiblity of some messages going to the Limbo.
But you are right, that would make it much harder to use bots.
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Given the number of new accounts created to ask questions, I don't see it as being practical to put that many items into a moderation queue. The queue serves a different purpose for articles so it makes more sense there. If this were implemented, it would just drive traffic to other sites.
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Are you going to include the position of the ranking in your Curriculum Vitae or something similar?
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No I am not, Site Bugs / Suggestions is for telling about bugs on website and thats what I am doing. Could I know Nelek Why this Whos Who page is for???
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Sorry, I didn't want to upset you. It is just that last weeks have been A LOT of question related to the reputation points as it was the most important thing in the world.
You have done it right reporting, that is the purpose of this forum. I guess CP staff will have a look on it, but I don't think it is something landing on the upper part of open bugs. It is not something so important or affecting the good function of the site.
About the Who is Who page, for me it is just a kind of report of the users on CP, where you can see the open information of each profile and the reputation. Just the same as if you click in someone's name but all at once and with the possibility of ordering the list according to some options. But at the end I think it is just that, a report-list, not a ranking.
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Its nothing like being upset, I am not as well. anyways thanks.
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