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OriginalGriff14-Aug-19 1:54

OriginalGriff

14-Aug-19 1:54

Most members can't (and those of us that can generally don't, except Staff and they are paid to tidy things up).

But as Pete says, if they do, you get an email identifying who did - so you can rollback the changes are report them if necessary. Even then, it would go to moderation.

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Nelek14-Aug-19 3:16

14-Aug-19 3:16

1) There is a log about the edits in the "revisions" link of your article. We can all see if it was your edit or someone else's. And we check it before reporting.

2) The reports are related to concrete items. Only CP Staff can nuke all contents at once. We can only get one account or one article at a time, but yes. If the link is in several articles and all get reported, then all will get nuked. But as I already said, we are a big group of people and we check first before reporting.
We still are humans and can have errors yes, but it is very unusual.

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OriginalGriff14-Aug-19 4:44

OriginalGriff

14-Aug-19 4:44

Canada is now awake, and your spammer reports have been cleared.

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SimbirSoft14-Aug-19 11:26

SimbirSoft

14-Aug-19 11:26

Ok, thank you!

Nelek14-Aug-19 3:21

14-Aug-19 3:21

OriginalGriff wrote:
Simply the "Background" section and it's references to the company both of you work for caused me to raise it as "probable spam" in the reports forum in the first place

There are no "both", the author is the only member in this group (at least for now)

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff14-Aug-19 4:10

OriginalGriff

14-Aug-19 4:10

Check the article: it has two separate authors: Shvetsov Evgeniy, and SimbirSoft

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Nelek14-Aug-19 13:24

14-Aug-19 13:24

Evgenj is was the only member in SimbirSoft

Edit: It looks they split again

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SimbirSoft14-Aug-19 11:27

SimbirSoft

14-Aug-19 11:27

Nelek wrote:
There are no "both"

Well, there are, actually Smile | :)

Nelek14-Aug-19 3:23

14-Aug-19 3:23

I would delete this group account with the name and publicity of the company. Your other personal account might still say that you work here in the user profile (as you already do, and that's the polite way to do it and the one most of the users use).

But this "company" group is a step too far.

M.D.V.

Blog (changed to article) needing help

SimbirSoft14-Aug-19 11:29

SimbirSoft

14-Aug-19 11:29

Hi Nelek!

Can you please give a bit more details about the problem?

And how we can fix that?

Thank you!

Nelek6-Aug-19 0:25

6-Aug-19 0:25

Remove commit history in git[^]

It got approved with weird font and no snippets and a new version without visible changes is there with a lot of reports, but the author is not reacting.

M.D.V.

Help to decoding

Ktp. Zbig28-Jul-19 11:00

Ktp. Zbig

28-Jul-19 11:00

Good morning There is a cipher, probably a word or a combination of words should come out Please help or suggestions / thoughts. Only RSA comes to mind

0002: YUL
0004: 81g
0008: 3sJ
0016: SZW
0032: 610K
0064: 4Lqg
0128: YnM_S
0256: loq2K
0512: sApcc
1024: AsJG
2048: 8_82
4096: 2Hf9h

Re: Help to decoding

Richard MacCutchan28-Jul-19 21:20

Richard MacCutchan

28-Jul-19 21:20

Wrong forum; this is for question on articles that you have written. However, before reposting elsewhere please add some proper details to your question. As it stands it is difficult to understand what your problem is.

Weird

Nelek28-Jul-19 6:32

28-Jul-19 6:32

I am not sure if it is something to report in B&S forum, so I will ask first here.

There are a couple of the last approved articles that have problems with images and / or the snippets.
i.E. Dependency injection in "WCF Service Library" project with Self hosting[^]

But they are approved by people like @OriginalGriff or @Wendelius so I suppose they (the articles) were not having such a problem when in moderation.

@Sean-Ewington ~~could~~ would you mind to have a look? Is it something happening once approved? Or am I having aproblem (IE, FF and Chrome tested, same issues in all 3 browsers)?

M.D.V.

modified 29-Jul-19 3:03am.

Re: Weird

Wendelius28-Jul-19 20:29

Wendelius

28-Jul-19 20:29

That's weird, if I recall correctly, when in moderation, the article contained a picture with a small stormtrooper walking on the sand. Confused | :confused:

Re: Weird

Sean Ewington29-Jul-19 3:31

Sean Ewington

29-Jul-19 3:31

Some images are disappearing from articles but we're having trouble reproducing the problem. We're still looking into it.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Weird

Nelek29-Jul-19 4:10

29-Jul-19 4:10

Not only the images... it seems that snippets format are disappearing too

M.D.V.

Can't edit my article

aelassas27-Jul-19 4:40

aelassas

27-Jul-19 4:40

Hi,

When I try to edit my article, I get the following message: Unfortunately you do not have permission to edit this article.

Can you please fix this?

Regards,

Formatting

Dr.Walt Fair, PE15-Jul-19 10:30

Dr.Walt Fair, PE

15-Jul-19 10:30

I'm trying to submit another article, but the formatting is weird and the dropdowns' and text formatting doesn't seem to work. I never had that issue for previous articles. I've tried different browsers as well as different PCs.Any suggestions?

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Why?, My Article deleted

hussam.it14-Jul-19 23:28

hussam.it

14-Jul-19 23:28

Hello,

My Article SQL Wrapping Class[^]

Was suddenly deleted, The reason was:

because it is of insufficient quality as judged by our readers and editors
By Sean Ewington

There was 3500 views, 10 votes, 3 bookmark.

Please take note that one of your editor "Deeksha Shenoy" update the article and makes change as what is fit the "submission guidelines" and that was at 2019, June 18, What is the insufficient quality?

It was better to advice and suggest correction tips rather than delete the entire article.

I ask to have my article back and ready for any correction.

Regards,

Richard Deeming15-Jul-19 7:46

Richard Deeming

15-Jul-19 7:46

I can't tell you why it was flagged for deletion, but I can have a pretty good guess: your code is vulnerable to SQL Injection[^].

Quote:
The Value property will be rendered to a pattern by adding the % character at the beginning and the end of it:

VB.NET
Database.Table.Name = "Customers"
Database.Table.AliasName = "cust"
With Database.Table.Query.Items
   .Add("cust.CustomerId")
   .Add("cust.ContactName")
   .Add("cust.City", "Lon", QItem.Types.WHERE_LIKE)
End With
The generated SQL Statement will be:

SQL
SELECT cust.CustomerId,cust.CompanyName,cust.ContactName,cust.City _
FROM dbo.Customers cust WHERE cust.City LIKE N'%Lon%';

NEVER use string concatenation to build a SQL query. ALWAYS use a parameterized query.

Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask) | Troy Hunt[^]
How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon? | Information Security Stack Exchange[^]
Query Parameterization Cheat Sheet | OWASP[^]

I would be very surprised if Sean and others hadn't left you a message explaining this critical security vulnerability in your code before closing your article.

There's nothing stopping you from re-submitting the article once you've fixed the vulnerability.

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modified 15-Jul-19 15:20pm.

Nelek15-Jul-19 8:22

15-Jul-19 8:22

Richard Deeming wrote:
I would be very surprised if Sean and others hadn't left you a message explaining this critical security vulnerability in your code before closing your article.

I can't say for sure, but I think there was a heads up in the message board.

What surprises me, is that it got approved a couple of times. Maybe someone should give a heads up to the first approvers

BTW... the thirs link... not valid anymore. They moved it to GitHub

M.D.V.

modified 15-Jul-19 14:35pm.

Richard Deeming15-Jul-19 9:20

Richard Deeming

15-Jul-19 9:20

Nelek wrote:
BTW... the thirs link... not valid anymore. They moved it to GitHub

Thanks - updated the link. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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