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I'm curious about what 'Whacked' actually means.
When I'm spammed I'll dissuade them from trying again by using an SMTP mailer that will loop and restate my request as many times as I wish (each w/a different return address and slightly different subject and body). Usually it's something like "If ten requests isn't enough, I can send a lot more" - making sure, first, that the sender is actually the sender and not itself a faked innocent's address. It works well for getting someone too lazy to remove me from their list to decide it's less work to do so.
So how do you whack-a-mole?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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In this case, I use my awesome prowess and reputation to click the Report Spammer option. Unfortunately, you have to be above a certain rep level to even see this link.
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I must slay trolls until I earn enough xp rep score to unlock that class feature...
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Write some articles on topics that people hopefully find interesting. That's what I did.
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Post a whole load of tripe in the lounge. That's what I did.
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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Voting like a corpse in Chicago helps too. Most of my rep is from lounge blather, but 100 days of 25 lounge votes will get platinum organizer. Spraying votes across the rest of the site could accomplish the same in a few weeks.
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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I just noticed while looking for Best VB.Net Articles of September[^] that it showing an article[^] that is already a prize winner in month of July 2011 and its posted date is 2 Sep,2011.
Is this a bug or I am still dreaming?
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ~Edward Phelps
Man's wisest mistake: Marriage. ~ Suresh Suthar
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The same set of articles are displaying for all the months.
Suresh Suthar wrote: I am still dreaming?
No I too see the same.
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That survey doesn't start until October, but when the time comes to pick the actual articles to vote on only September articles will be included.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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If you look at the article the first posted date is 2 Sep 2011 but actually it is winner in July 2011 competition. Seems to be first posted is showing wrong.
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Look at the revision history, first post was in july, so something is a miss.
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The author requested his article be removed temporarily while making some updates. I suspect that once the article was returned online it went into "pending" status. Then once the pending status article is approved the first posted date changes. We'll look into it more closely to uncover precisely what happened and find a solution to prevent it happening again.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Seems that the Q&A is extremely slow and every now and then I get no results for example when trying to see new questions. The only message is:
"Sorry, no entries were found." (kinda hard to believe...)
Same kind of symptoms if I randomly open a question or profile: "Sorry, the item you requested could not be found."
This doesn't seem to be related to a single server since at least web22-24 all give this response occasionally.
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I think the whole site seems slower tonight......maybe something to do with the 109,223 online! Think thats the highest i've seen it.
Probably a rogue spider........
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Good point! Didn't notice that. Now it's dropped to 64k and things are lot, lot faster.
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No spider, just lots of people reading the newsletter and clicking those links.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The same thing happening again, roughly 1 day later and now only ~20k members online.
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We had to kick the main DB server while moving a log file to a new disk cluster on te SAN
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi,
I'm currently waiting on approval for my first submission and it would have been nice for me to be able to see how many approval votes it has gained so far (forgive my newbie eagerness).
I would expect any rejection votes to be accompanied by feedback but i have no way of telling whether the lack of feedback is because it doesn't need improvement (and that last approval vote is incoming any second now) or because no-one has got around to looking at it yet.
a little label or even a progress bar showing x of y required votes received would be, IMO, a nice feature for those of us eagerly waiting to see if we make the cut
Pedis ex oris
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The forum menu on the left is getting really long. Has anyone considered making it collapsible to limit the size?
vbmike
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It is not as long as the page, but once it gets there, I think it may be useful.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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It's bad enough trying to get people to post into the correct forum when they can see the list. If it's collapsed, it will be nigh on impossible.
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I tend to forget I am not the only user! would be nice to have an advanced settings for folks that use site a lot. Just dreaming....
vbmike
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Good point! +5
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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If the sections you're not in were to be collapsed, I don't think that even the noobs would have a problem. The click on a single link for Programming Questions and then get re-directed as appropriate.
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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