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Normally all of this would have been caught by the hamsters ... I think the hamsters were caught napping today!
I was counting the minutes to business hours in Canada!
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CHill60 wrote: Normally all of this would have been caught by the hamsters ... I think the hamsters were caught napping today!
I think I have proven already that the AI does not learn. After flagging 600 messages, it still doesn't see the rest of the similar posts in the same forum as spam.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I think the learning has been doing well for this last year ... clearly it was not switched on today!
And AFAIK it's never been applied retrospectively ... the filter is supposed to push the messages into a moderation queue before they appear in the forums not remove them afterwards. Then @sean-ewington and/or @chris-maunder don their waders and shovel away the s...t 
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CHill60 wrote: clearly it was not switched on today!
Ah, it's on holiday? I hear Curacao is nice this time of year 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Now posting in QA in batches of 10 or so - that's a new post every 5 seconds.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They may be using the low-tech, hire 20 people and have them all log on at the same time approach.
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The messages are showing up in blocks with the same (to the second) timestamp - which is unlikely with humans.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just spotted in your sig 'Never throw anything away, Griff' you have not fallen for the infamous 'you don't use that, might as well get rid of it'...can be very expensive...
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Yep. Couple of months ago. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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glennPattonWork wrote: Just spotted in your sig 'Never throw anything away, Griff' you have not fallen for the infamous 'you don't use that, might as well get rid of it'...can be very expensive...
Ha!
I spent this morning going through all the cr@p in my computer room, to throw stuff out.
Total No. of items got rid of: 0
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: I spent this morning going through all the cr@p in my computer room, to throw stuff out.
Total No. of items got rid of: 0
I have done this many, many times - with the same result.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Only if you don't like black magic! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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For now, it seems limited to QA and The Lounge.
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Nope, it's all over the place - have a look at Design and Architecture Discussion Boards[^] for example.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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wow. the bot really decorated it very well.
Bryian Tan
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Bryian Tan wrote: wow. the bot really decorated it very well thoroughly.
I'm not a big fan of his sense of style.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is the posting coming from the same IP each time?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Only the staff could tell, but IP bans generally don't work: it's too easy to get a new IP, and it's shared by all users of the point of connection (router or whatever) anyway.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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can the provider be checked/found and asked to stop the spamming?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I can think of a few automatable filters, maybe they dont apply here: New members posting immediately will be quarantined, pending human moderation. Same member posting rapidly in several threads (Yeah I know never happens in the Lounge). If they post something like a phone number: quarantine. Stuff like that.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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48 pages at this moment in the Design and Architecture forum.
Yay.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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for the lounge to get a "prove you are human" challenge?
Message Signature
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Yeah, most of us would fail that.
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