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I have a bad feeling.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Better hide the "Blogs needing approval" panel in home page temporarily till ....
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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I've manually deleted mine.
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I share Sean's bad feeling, see my post below. We need the big broom this time.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Big broom deployed. All clean.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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How nice was I? Self cleaning
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The nicest.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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And you better run for the Dev Team, I just spotted about 6 or 7 Blogs in the Queue which were apparently were doubly-consumed by the engine - I deleted the duplicates, but as I returned I found another 6 to 7 Blogs waiting - Duplicates, apparently consumed by accident.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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+1
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Hello sir,
Im an individual security searcher i have found an XSS Vulnerability at your Website, please Contact me at my Email for Further explanation Thanks
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Here[^] you could find webmaster mail id. Send details.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Hey Paul - I've not heard from you.
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...I assume that is what is happening.
Have a look here: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4768170/Spammer-in-the-database-forum.aspx[^]
We get a spammer, we squash him.
He re-registers, presumably under a new name but with the old email, and he has all the old rep points.
Some of these guys are getting high reps in some categories, which is wrong: when you register you should start with no points. If this continues, soon spammers are going to get access to the moderation queue and be able to approve each others "articles" which will make them a lot, lot harder to spot.
I'm pretty sure it's the email - if you look at this guy: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10629187[^] who I know has been banned a couple of times this month, and his account shows he started on 27th Feb this year, but his points history goes back to November last year.
I'm not saying "take his points away" - just if you want the points from a closed account, you need to apply here to get it reinstated: it shouldn't be automatic on a new member with the same email. I'm not sure the same email should be allowed immediately anyway!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm not sure if it is the E-mail. I could be the username as well (if the account gets banned you can use the same username again).
Another suggestion: If you let them keep their points: Don't add additional points for signing up again ... (or remove those rep points when the account gets banned)
I remeber that contracting clown last year that got like 5'000 participant rep just by signing up and getting banned
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It is the same e-mail. But I think it is a good thing. For example I got wrongly banned for getting 4 reports on this post[^]. Thankfully it was no big deal as I didn't have to create a new e-mail account as my old one was still registered and whatsmore I got my account back. There have been others that have got wrongly banned too and what with the amount of people reporting anything nowadays it is good to make it nice and easy to get your account back.
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I don't! If you are incorrectly banned, then ask here and Chris and Co will reinstate it, after looking at what happened. And easy way just encourages people to post whatever they want, and sign straight back up again when the account dies.
At least if Chris looks at the circumstances, he can politely remind people not to abuse the system!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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But the abuse of the report button is so prevalent now. Looking at my history I have had 6 reports since being re-instated.
OriginalGriff wrote: At least if Chris looks at the circumstances
Do you know if he wants to spend time doing this?
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And backing up my point, just got banned (again) for posting this[^].
Do we really need to keep coming back here asking to be re-instated?
A real bug though is each time you re-instate you get the e-mail opt-in points again. Which teaches the people who abuse the report button, because when they ban me I get 300 points for the privilege.
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It took me a while to see the second number you have circled at the top right corener (perhaps you should have explained the problem). That happens because the information for the tooltip is not updated right away. I have seen it reported here before and I personally don't think it is a real problem, but maybe other people agree with you.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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sir, you are right but sir, bug is a bug after all.
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yes, sir not a big problem but sir, a bug is a bug after all
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