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When in doubt defaulting to debator seems to be the general approach. And I agree with it. Better to give debator points for a programming discussion than to give authority points for a discussion on bra-sizes (yes, we've had that twice in the poll-forums in the past).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Better to give debator points for a programming discussion than to give authority points for a discussion on bra-sizes
What if I'm an authority on bra sizes? ...my wife's of course, not mine. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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My hyperbole generator is stuck in the on position.
Now that we've got that aside...
The Konami code doesn't appear to do anything on the CP home page[^].
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
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, I just added it to our portfolio management system 
Yes, really.
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That is correct.
Have you tried other pages[^]?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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that's a secondary page. There's nothing less of main page than the home page, so you really need to have something there. You also probably need to add it to the article/QA interfaces (the main listing pages don't do anything; didn't test deeper).
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
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I'll get right on that, Dan.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Doesn't seem to work in IE though. Or maybe it doesn't work if I'm logged in. Not sure.
Martin Fowler wrote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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I do something similar: I take the common elements found in the spam - keywords, homepage, name, biography - and add them to a common "IsMemberASpammer" function. This gets run regularly, but I still need to do it manually because false positives occur.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Do you do a simple account nuke, or try and fake the spammers out by letting the IP that created it (only) see the account as live while making it dead for the rest of the internet.
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
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Nuke. The profiles are posted by the bucket load and are very short term items. A guy working in Vietnam posting spam links for 5c a pop isn't going to bother coming back to check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You could always add a question or two about a programming concept in the account creation process. A two-bit hustler wouldn't mess with that just to post some spam threads...I would think.
Anyways, I think you have a tedious task, dealing with spammers hear. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Type the human readable text:
Romania women's national football team
High light it, and paste the relevant link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_women%27s_national_football_team
Result:
Romania women's national football team[^]
instead of:
Romania women's national football team[^]
If you paste the link, then replace the human readable it is fine - it automatically linkifies it and it all works.
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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I couldn't work out what was causing it, well done Mr G.
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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Can you block email IDs from being posted in forum posts, answers and comments?
"Don't confuse experts with facts" - Eric_V
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Email addresses (I assume this is what you meant by 'email IDs') are never posted in any forum post or reply, unless you put it in your sig.
Forum posts will contain an 'email' link at the bottom of the message, if you have chosen that option in your profile settings. However, this link will not give anyone access to your actual email address.
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Building on Hans' reply: do you mean in general? As in: do not let anyone post their email address in a forum?
We could, but what problem are you looking to solve?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: do you mean in general? As in: do not let anyone post their email address in a forum?
That's exactly what I meant, sorry if my question was not phrased correctly.
Whenever the system detects an email address in a forum message, a response, a question or an answer, the user gets an alert asking them to remove their email addresses.
Chris Maunder wrote: We could, but what problem are you looking to solve?
It's not a problem per se. But just saves us some keystrokes in reminding people not to put their email addresses in order not to be spammed.
"Don't confuse experts with facts" - Eric_V
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Chris,
As you will see in the Spammer list below, there is one noticeable pattern of the guilty pattern, which has generated hundreds of accounts.
How maybe want to cull these in one go. They are easily identifiable.
1) They have sent the homepage link to '0.0.0.32'
2) They have company name 'Feel Good Inc.'
3) They have country 'Libyan Arab Jamahiriya'
4) They have batches of sequential profile names.
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Good job with your investigating and research. I would give you 500 points for this but alas I can only give you 24.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Slacker007 wrote: I would give you 500 points for this but alas I can only give you 24.
As is the case with me. Now all we need is for another 19 platinum members to give 5 and we'll be at 500...
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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1,400 and counting today.
Spammers do it in bulk and mix it up poorly. Each spam leads me to another set of spam and so on. I'm approaching 7,500 removed accounts over the last 2 days.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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