Bugs and Suggestions

Thomas Daniels21-Dec-12 1:55

Thomas Daniels

21-Dec-12 1:55

He did it like this:

In some cases, my signature will be longer then my message...
ProgramFOX

Maximilien21-Dec-12 2:59

Maximilien

21-Dec-12 2:59

I know the HTML tags, but I thought images were not supported/allowed in forums and Q/A for "security" reason.

Nihil obstat

Chris Maunder21-Dec-12 5:56

Chris Maunder

21-Dec-12 5:56

One of the features of QA is the ability for high rep members to update others' posts. This provides enough cover that we can open it up and allow images.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

Maximilien21-Dec-12 7:54

Maximilien

21-Dec-12 7:54

Fair enough.

Nihil obstat

Moderation

Richard Deeming21-Dec-12 1:40

Richard Deeming

21-Dec-12 1:40

Given the recent influx of spam, should all new user accounts be moderated until they've posted at least three non-spam messages? It might not stop them posting their crap, but it would mean that nobody would click on the links, and Google wouldn't index them.

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Nelek21-Dec-12 4:45

21-Dec-12 4:45

Three messages with "asdfikjhasfkln" somewhere and blocking gone.

It is very annoying, but I see it not so easy to protect it without affecting legitim new members.

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Richard Deeming21-Dec-12 4:54

Richard Deeming

21-Dec-12 4:54

Nelek wrote:
Three messages with "asdfikjhasfkln" somewhere and blocking gone.

A message of "asdfikjhasfkln" would be marked as spam, so it wouldn't count as a non-spam message.

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Nelek21-Dec-12 5:04

21-Dec-12 5:04

I know, but... What if there are not so many people online / paying attention to report the first messages? without some kind of time limitation it is possible to bypass that number of messages.

And even though, they can create a bunch of accounts, write harmless answers to deal with the blockade and afterwards use them.

It can make it a bit more difficult for them, but not impossible. As I said, the only way to deal with that is affecting legitime new members.

If your solution was implemented and I was a new member needing to ask something with a link to an image to clarify something... how would I be able to do it?

It is annoying yes, but we can already deal with the spam, reporting, deleting the links or the posts and so on.

Don't make millions of potential new normal users pay for the stupidity of some spammers.

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modified 21-Dec-12 11:14am.

Richard Deeming21-Dec-12 5:18

Richard Deeming

21-Dec-12 5:18

Nelek wrote:
What if there are not so many people to report the first messages?

I was thinking more along the lines of reversing it - the message needs to be approved by an appropriate member before it appears to everyone else. After three messages get approved, the members is no longer moderated and can post messages as normal. If any of the first three messages are spam, the account gets deleted.

Yes, it would be annoying for new members to have to wait for their message to be approved, but it's a solution that's used by many other sites without any major problems.

Nelek wrote:
And even though, they can create a bunch of accounts, write harmless answers to deal with the blockade and afterwards use them.
It can make it a bit more difficult for them, but not impossible.

It's not about making it impossible to post spam; it's about making it harder to post spam. If they have to update their bots to post three legitimate messages first and wait for those messages to be approved before they start bombarding the site with crap, they'll probably move on to other, easier targets instead.

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- Homer

Nelek21-Dec-12 6:53

21-Dec-12 6:53

Ahm, ok.

The way you explained it at the beggining was not so clear (or at least I didn't understand you point)

This is already working in CP but only with the articles. The only problem I see is the overload of work for members that can "approve" accounts and the possiblity of some messages going to the Limbo.

But you are right, that would make it much harder to use bots.

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Problem in Display Position in whos who page

Pete O'Hanlon21-Dec-12 22:54

Pete O'Hanlon

21-Dec-12 22:54

Given the number of new accounts created to ask questions, I don't see it as being practical to put that many items into a moderation queue. The queue serves a different purpose for articles so it makes more sense there. If this were implemented, it would just drive traffic to other sites.

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AshishChaudha21-Dec-12 0:07

AshishChaudha

21-Dec-12 0:07

In Who's Who page myself checking the position of mine

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?ml_ob=Reputation&mgtid=-1&mgm=False&pgnum=27[^]

my points are greater than ExoticmE(11,669), but my name is displaying below him. Could anyone please let me know the reason about this.

Nelek21-Dec-12 4:46

21-Dec-12 4:46

Are you going to include the position of the ranking in your Curriculum Vitae or something similar?

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AshishChaudha21-Dec-12 16:55

AshishChaudha

21-Dec-12 16:55

No I am not, Site Bugs / Suggestions is for telling about bugs on website and thats what I am doing. Could I know Nelek Why this Whos Who page is for???

Nelek22-Dec-12 7:31

22-Dec-12 7:31

Sorry, I didn't want to upset you. It is just that last weeks have been A LOT of question related to the reputation points as it was the most important thing in the world.

You have done it right reporting, that is the purpose of this forum. I guess CP staff will have a look on it, but I don't think it is something landing on the upper part of open bugs. It is not something so important or affecting the good function of the site.

About the Who is Who page, for me it is just a kind of report of the users on CP, where you can see the open information of each profile and the reputation. Just the same as if you click in someone's name but all at once and with the possibility of ordering the list according to some options. But at the end I think it is just that, a report-list, not a ranking.

Regards.
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AshishChaudha23-Dec-12 17:04

AshishChaudha

23-Dec-12 17:04

Its nothing like being upset, I am not as well. anyways thanks.

Editing questions

Tom Deketelaere20-Dec-12 22:01

20-Dec-12 22:01

Can we have a undo revision button (or something like it) or if it's already possible make it more visible (because I couldn't find it).

See this question: nddjkfngbjkn kjnvfjkbjgfbnkj nkfvnbk[^]

Revision 2 is good but for some reason the OP replaced everything with jibberish, so I thought I'd just undo his change but couldn't find a way to do it.

Jochen Arndt20-Dec-12 22:09

Jochen Arndt

20-Dec-12 22:09

There is a 'Rollback' button when opening the revision compare page (v<num> link).

[UPDATE:] Performed the rollback after the question was unlocked from your editing.

Tom Deketelaere20-Dec-12 22:47

20-Dec-12 22:47

And where would this 'Rollback' button be located?
Because I'm not seeing it.

Jochen Arndt20-Dec-12 22:51

Jochen Arndt

20-Dec-12 22:51

Below the question is the line 'Posted ... Edited ... v<num>' where <num> specifies the version. This is a link that opens the revision history.

Tom Deketelaere20-Dec-12 22:54

20-Dec-12 22:54

Yeah I knew that but it's the 'Rollback' button I can't find.

Jochen Arndt20-Dec-12 22:59

Jochen Arndt

20-Dec-12 22:59

It is in the righmost column of the revision table. But maybe it is only available when you have enough rep points for specific sections (author in your case).

Tom Deketelaere20-Dec-12 23:05