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We leave messages in place so that deleted messages can be undeleted.
Nelek wrote: still appearing in the search list with full spam in title or first sentence in overview
This I'll get fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: We leave messages in place so that deleted messages can be undeleted.
Fair enough
Chris Maunder wrote: This I'll get fixed.
This is another reason why I like CP... Thanks for feedback
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Hi Chris / Sean / Matthew!
I assume you've already seen one of those very obvious spammer accounts like this one:
(Other members reading this please don't report that account so the admins will be able to see what I mean.)
Mucend - Professional Profile - CodeProject[^]
In the last few days I've reported several of these in the Spam&Abuse forum. First I looked them up by manually scrolling through the MemberIdDesc-Pages, then, three days ago, I wrote a program to do this. It collects new accounts that have an image or a biography or a homepage-link (and lists them for inspection and subsequent reporting). So I was able to gather some statistical data (from 3 days) without going crazy:
Approximately 4% of all new accounts satisfy these criteria (image||bio||homepage) and almost all of those actually are spam accounts. With roughly 2000 new accounts per day that's about 80 new (obvious) spammer accounts per day. That's (IMO) more than what can be handled in the Spam&Abuse forum. Thus I would suggest you set up some own procedure to nuke them.
Sascha
(programmer for hire  )
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 14-Jan-16 21:24pm.
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I second this one! Good shot!
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What's the pattern you're using? A bio with a link?
Note that links are inactive for new members so they are essentially useless accounts. Still - I'm happy to put together a page that allows these things to be found easier.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: What's the pattern you're using? A bio with a link?
No, just any bio other than the string "No Biography provided". Or any image other than a gravatar. Or any homepage-link (which is not inactive for new members).
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm happy to put together a page that allows these things to be found easier.
The problem I'm seeing here when handling this through "traditional means" of reporting is the amount of these accounts per day: Approx. 80; that's 1600 clicks required per day to kick them.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So essentially you're just looking for non-trivial bio's to narrow down the checking. Gotcha
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yep, turned out almost all new accounts with any bio are such spammer accounts without doubt.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Another observation: A lot of them are re-using the same image over and over. (Most of the images show some silly 3d toon or look like they're shots of inmates or terrible B-movie characters.) So I guess you could nuke a whole lot at once by scanning your DB for identical images and confirming the image-groups as spammer accounts by looking at just one exemplary account per group. Storing the hashes of these images might be useful for taking further steps.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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In addition to my (indirect) suggestion to make homepage-links available only with a certain reputation: Allowing a signature also only with a certain reputation to prevent spam-sigs. Refer: Article forum spammer - CodeProject[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Hi everyone,
I have not received the verification email and I not find nowhere assistance information about this.
Could you help me?
Thanks for advance.
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I have sent you an email confirmation request. Please let me know if you receive it OK.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Not yet!
I tried to send email from another account and if it comes, even yesterday I received a verification email from other forums.
Any suggestions?
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Is it in your spam folder or anything?
This is the newsletter FAQ entry, but some may still apply. Are any of these a problem?
CodeProject Member FAQ[^]
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:26pm.
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:26pm.
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:27pm.
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:27pm.
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You're Right, But I have a persist notification that says me:
Your email address needs to be confirmed.
I shouldn't worry about it? How or when disappear that?
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Dude, he's emailing you directly, so his responses are not actually posted here. So an arbitrary observer would see you repeatedly replying to yourself crossly, and you couldn't blame them for thinking that perhaps you opened a bottle on Thursday afternoon.
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Haha  , you're right too! Only that the email says:
Do not hit 'reply' to this email: To reply, click here.
Anyway, thanks for your answer.
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You mean we're not supposed to open a bottle early Thursday afternoon?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No,
you are supposed to open it late Thursday morning, let it breath a bit and then drink it early Thursday afternoon 
(disclamer: probably depends on what is in the bottle, and I have no clue if it's actually true or not but...)
Tom
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This account[^] was closed for posting a plagiarised article[^].
The user has signed up again (Member 10510822[^]) to re-post the article[^]. He has a different user ID, but has kept his original reputation. The comments[^] from his old account are now associated with his new account, although the messages and QA contributions are not.
Is this a bug lurking deep in the bowels of the database?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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