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I thought your account was reactivated a while back. Were you banned again?
If people feel that you are promoting software for your company, and you aren't paying Code Project for the privilege of doing so, they will tend to vote your account as spam.
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And is there a way to do something to cancel the account deactivation or is that permanent? The thing is that lately we haven't been posting any content, just updating the existing one, and all we need is at least an ability to update the products already listed in the catalog.
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Only the CP team can reverse the deactivation. If all you've been doing is updating the catalog content, then I see no reason why anyone should vote it as spam.
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A post I made in this thread was removed: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4536014/Re-important-subject-help-needed.aspx[^]
It wasn't offensive in any way (Nish has provided the text I posted in that thread), but I am posting it thinking if the system is somehow being abused. The post was removed with just 1 vote, and I wonder if that's even possible. Also, another post I made in the same thread is rated a 1 (saw that by visiting my messages[^]).
I don't care about the 1 vote if that's one, but since down voting is disabled for general discussion forums, I wonder if the system is being abused by someone (or perhaps that post is marked as abusive, and in that case the 1 vote registered should be fine).
A more pressing concern is, how was one of my posts removed with just 1 vote? Do we not require more votes for deeming a post as abusive?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: The post was removed with just 1 vote
How do you know that?
Even if your message is reported 2 (or more) times, then the "My Messages" list will still show "Score: 1.00 (1 vote)"
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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ProgramFOX wrote: Even if your message is reported 2 (or more) times, then the "My Messages" list will still show "Score: 1.00 (1 vote)"
I believe that in case of multiple votes, it will show the correct number of votes in the bracket. Eg: Score: 1.00 (4 votes)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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In case of multiple votes, it will show the correct number. But if the message is reported multiple times, it shows always '(1 vote)'.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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ProgramFOX wrote: But if the message is reported multiple times, it shows always '(1 vote)'.
I am not entirely sure about this, but if that's how it is, then it looks counter-intuitive. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I'm 100% sure, because once I reported a spam message (which was reported already!), and after my report, I still saw '(1 vote)'
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Well, that might have been a caching issue. You won't necessarily see the number change immediately.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I don't think so, because just now I upvoted a message, and the number changed immediately.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Actually, it shows only '(1 vote)' if a message is reported in forums where downvoting isn't possible. If downvoting is possible, then it shows the number of reports.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: The post was removed with just 1 vote, and I wonder if that's even possible.
It is if it's a top member. With the spammers in place we lessened the requirements to quickly get rid of poor messages. A platinum level member has decided your post was offensive and it's been removed.
I disagree with this and have reinstated the message.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: It is if it's a top member.
Interesting, but I it appears that some people are misusing their powers.
Chris Maunder wrote: I disagree with this and have reinstated the message.
OK, thanks. But I'm unable to see the message. It still shows as removed.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Interesting, but I it appears that some people are misusing their powers.
Whoever voted you down probably had no clue he had the power to remove a message with 1 single vote.
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Just a thought: Messages could be reported spam/abusive and removed in a jiffy only if it's a new member's post. For instance, one "top" member's vote shouldn't be sufficient to remove another top member's post as abusive.
If the post being reported is made by a good old member, then several votes must be required before it can be removed (with no respect to "who" is reporting it).
Also, I'm not sure if it's just me, I can't see the reinstated message.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Also, I'm not sure if it's just me, I can't see the reinstated message.
Not just you. Shows as deleted to me as well.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Messages could be reported spam/abusive and removed in a jiffy only if it's a new member's post
Unfortunately we have old accounts that get used for spam. It's happened time after time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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How much of the spam is from necroaccounts vs just registered ones? (And how many of the necrospamming accounts were used a non-trivial amount?) I think all the times I was trying to nuke something from orbit it was from new accounts.
If most of the spam's from new or almost never used accounts I think the colateral damage from 1 shot to kill is probably too high if it's catching regular users when they annoy some high rep idiot.
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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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've adjusted things so 1 shot kills are far less likely.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I agree with Dan. I urge that you rethink if it should be possible for a regular's post to be removed with just one vote.
Spammers are anyways being handled well, and in case someone uses an existing account to spam, the existing account won't have much of reputation points (in which case, it isn't considered an important account).
There should be some way to distinguish a contributing regular from a spammer who is using an account registered years ago. I presume the reputation points can help with this and so, it can be put to good use.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I disagree with this and have reinstated the message.
At the moment, the message still shows as deleted/removed.
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Should be good now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well, I've added my 5 to this.
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Thank you, good sir.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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