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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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What sort of discussions would you feel would be valuable in the short time a blog is in moderation?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I can't remember the specific blog submission that prompted me to post this. However in my opinion most comments by moderators (to authors) which apply to other submissions apply to blogs. At present the blog is approved or not and if not there is no opportunity to provide specific information to the author about why such as for example poor grammar and spelling. There are also comments such as 'You may wish to consider posting this as an article' or other suggestions for improvements. Articles and tips have not for publication comments so why not blogs? Naturally if a moderator posts a comment a discussion may follow.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Here's one, not deliberate spam but off topic which may benefit from a comment to the author.
Blogs[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Hello,
I'm trying to download the source files from the following link
Plugin Architecture using C#[^]
when the download window appear and this message appears in a black screen
Ticket: (No ticket provided - possibly an error in the error-system)
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_
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Seems the files have gone for a walk. I've emailed the author. Maybe he's fastidious when it comes to back up files ...
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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OK try now.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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That is a firing offence in my book.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Using Chrome. When I hover over the 'articles' menu, it drops down with a big green 'Create' button, but as soon as I move my pointer over the menu, the add button vanishes and it's back to the old list of categories.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Yeah - that's on the list.
For me I just hover over it, it disappears, then I hover over it again and it sticks.
I'll try and find some beer to help me debug that one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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I wonder how long that was there 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I just found a message with its content modified to "Message currently under review", false-positively.
It was a totally legitimate comment on the page of my article Microtonal Music Study with Chromatic Lattice Keyboard.
The message is of September 05, 2017, around 17:50 EST. The content is preserved in my e-mail messages.
And now I can see two flagged messages prior this one. It's also possible to be false-positive.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Much like this member's messages[^] the messages in question happened to contain tokens that triggered the spam filter. As a policy we don't publish the tokens and signals that indicate spam vs ham, but in reviewing the tokens the one that really sticks out is, strangely, "music". Consider the types of spam we get and the content therein and it makes sense.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thank you, Chris.
Yes, I can imagine the effect of the word "music". Interestingly enough, my two last articles dedicated exclusively to music (with related mathematics, physics and software) were not considered suspicious — that's good.
Thank you.
—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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Geez, what do I have to do to prove I'm a real person living in Houston, Texas? I posted a reply yesterday and it got flagged as spam. I posted a bug report today and it is flagged as spam, too! What give?! I guess this one will be flagged, as well!
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Our spam filter works by breaking messages into tokens and comparing those tokens with those from messages flagged as spam and flagged as ham (not spam). Your bug report happened to contain a bunch of signals that matched what the system had seen in spam and was then marked for moderation.
The alternative to holding messages for a brief period in moderation is we have an avalanche of spam. Been there, done that, not fun.
PS. Any reason for the all caps?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The reason for all caps in the subject line is because that is what I was taught as a standard of letters and transmittals in the U.S. Navy. I have always used caps in letters and E-mail since then.
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With the kindest of respect may I suggest that the use of all-caps online is strongly discouraged. It's called shouting[^].
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Chris Maunder
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With the kindest respect in return, know that I am more than old enough to know that caps in the body of a message can be considered shouting but many business schools and accounting courses teach that a subject line must be capitalized.
Please do not infer shouting when you see all caps in the subject line because there are a great number of people like myself who were taught to do it, on purpose, chiefly for clarity and delineation.
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I can only tell you my thoughts on what others online will think when they see all caps.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No need to answer this but it sounds like an opportunity to school the uninitiated on a long-standing tradition of capitalization.
As I look around me, much of what I see is capitalized. A can of PLANTERS CASHEWS, ALMONDS & PECANS. A Texas Lottery ticket with "PRINTED ON SUN SEP03 2017 17:53:44 CT." A book titled "THEM CHANGES." A band schedule of "2017 TOUR DATES." My KENWOOD receiver. The banner of "THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE." All capitalized. All necessary.
Are we losing the true meaning of capitalization? Is the proper use of capitalized words no longer recognized? Have we forgotten that is means emphasis, not shouting?
I hope it hasn't come to this.
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With all respect examples of bad usage of the language simply confirms that many do not know the simple rules. When To Use Capital Letters | SkillsYouNeed[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Nice Link, thanks
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Techsys Admin wrote: As I look around me, much of what I see is capitalized. A can of PLANTERS CASHEWS, ALMONDS & PECANS. A Texas Lottery ticket with "PRINTED ON SUN SEP03 2017 17:53:44 CT." A book titled "THEM CHANGES." A band schedule of "2017 TOUR DATES." My KENWOOD receiver. The banner of "THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE." All capitalized. All necessary.
Looking around my desk I see the book with the title "Essential SNMP". SNMP is an acronym and capitalizing that is standard.
Looking at my important book shelf it has 25 books (technical). Only 8 use all capitals in the title.
So in my limited example case the publishers chose to capitalize a few, not all, books.
Techsys Admin wrote: Are we losing the true meaning of capitalization? Is the proper use of capitalized words no longer recognized? Have we forgotten that is means emphasis, not shouting?
Is it your claim that every email you send should be emphasized?
Lets say I haven't heard from someone in a while and my only form of communication with them is email. And I am concerned that the email no longer works. Should I use "ARE YOU THERE?" or "Are you there?" If the former is correct, because I am concerned, then why would my other emails, the ones without concern also be emphasized?
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