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dan neely wrote: When in doubt, check the profile
True. It is also a proven thing that a thief always leaves behind some traces after committing its burglary. The cop can try looking out for it and catch him. Similarly, no matter, howmuchever pain the impersonator takes, it is always true that we can catch him. He can make things difficult but can not escape before the eyes of Law.
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The REAL Leckey - accept no substitutes.
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This has clearly stepped up to a level where it is now affecting the site and the community. In order to project our members and our site we're talking to our legal counsel to take the appropriate next steps.
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Chris Maunder
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Hooray!
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I hope your lawyers can shut him down. I'm a member of another board that's had a multiyear problem with a troll who's stopped just short of this. Fairly aggressive moderation's largely kept him out of sight. I've talked to one of the moderators who's said she can ID him consistently after only 1 or 2 posts "oh it's you again, *clickity-ban* buh-bye". Fortunately the pathological personality of a troll results in them being unable to hide themselves for any length of time.
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With those next steps, please strip HTML tags out of user names and don't allow it in the future. Validate all existing user names and rename the ones with html tags as "Member<memership no>", like how it would look immediately after registration.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: rename the ones with html tags as "Member",
Not necessary. Just strip out the HTML tags and whatever remains would be the Member Name. Why do we want to do an extra string replacement?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Not necessary. Just strip out the HTML tags and whatever remains would be the Member Name. Why do we want to do an extra string replacement?
Because you would wind up with lots of duplicates.
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Drew.
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Like
Troll
Troll
Troll
With whatever I suggested, everything would be Troll. It would only ambiguate it further. Is my understanding correct? Fine. In that case, I think, we should be RESETting to the 'Just-After-Signup' state.
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<font face="Arial", color="Red">Display Name</font> != <font face="Book Antiqua", color="Green">Display Name</font>
If you strip off the HTML tags, they both will become essentially the same string, "Display Name" and collide, as we cannot have duplicate display names. With HTML tags, they are not the same, and so we don't have duplicates. So, I suggested renaming the display name to Member<membership no> in case of collisions.
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Thank you for clarifying. 
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But, logically speaking that could produce duplicate user names. By using the uniqueID of the membership then it will lead to less confusion and less possibility of error.
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I guess the thing is, at what point do we stop most of the users from having some fun, based on the actions of a few ?
Christian Graus
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Christian Graus wrote: I guess the thing is, at what point do we stop most of the users from having some fun, based on the actions of a few ?
That's an understandable position. I still believe the user names shouldn't allow HTML, but another alternative is to not use the HTML tags in determining uniqueness. This will prevent members from using the same user name as someone else while still allowing the "fun" of having funky (and in some cases hard to read) names.
Even taking this approach, a one-time scrub, given enough warning, which looks for duplicates without using the HTML tags is probably appropriate. This would reset any duplicates to the "Member [id]" setting, except possibly for the user with the oldest join date.
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I agree on that point and I never looked at it that way. But, this does not mean that the overall security of the site has to be compromised in order to let people have fun. Either HTML tags should be disallowed, or only the text and not the HTML tags should be considered as user name. Same text with different HTML tags should not be allowed.
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This is how it's done. We simply had a bug in the system.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: In order to project our members and our site we're talking to our legal counsel to take the appropriate next steps.
Projecting the members and the site seems to be a good idea; you may also want to consider protecting them as well.
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Good to hear. I also agree with the other posts about not allowing HTML in the user name field. For those user names that already have HTML, with fair warning to give people enough time to remove the HTML themselves, a simple one-time process to revert them back to the original "Member [id]" would work just fine.
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leckey wrote: VERY UPSET
You need not get upset because of such retarded cases. They are actually jeopardizing the tranquility of community at large. I really wonder, what do they gain with such a sadistic attitude of corrupting the messageboards with invalid content.
Anyway, you would have already observed a few posts down that Chris is trying to rope in a few lawyers and legal counsel to bring sanity over the storm-affected areas.
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They have their exits and their entrances;
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: bring sanity over the storm-affected areas.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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CP Team,
Please consider bringing in moderation for the posts for just-signups. There is another nascent wave of Troll/MessageBombing by this user:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=5230867[^]
(I have reported it. However, to prevent recurrence of such incidents, there should be some strenghtening of the fortress).
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When I view the My Coupons page and have it list all my coupons, there is a link for Transactions. If you click that link you get a page with the following
Forbidden
You do not have permission to view this page
Is this supposed to happen or am I being my usual thick headed user.
Chris Meech
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Sorry about that. We'll get that fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Fixed
Sincerely,
Elina
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I still get the Forbidden page... 
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