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We don't moderate private forums, Richard, we protect against SPAM.
Our spam detector was definitely out of sorts after the move but that has been rectified. the ferocity of the system's reaction to spam reports has also been turned down several notches, so far less chance that your account will be disabled (not nuked) should you post a message inadvertently marked as spam.
With respect to protecting forums, private or not, we have seen instances were seemingly innocent members have spammed, or their accounts compromised and spam posted. If we could definitively say that no members of a private forum will spam then our job would be easier, but that's not an assumption I'm willing to make.
You wrote "If CP does manage to resolve the problems - yes - problems as in many, let me know. I'm not at all convinced that CP will be able to rectify these issues"
Can I assume at this point that your issues are now fixed?
Anything else broken or is everything working to your satisfaction at this point?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
At this moment in time, the old account is working so the new account can indeed be removed. It was only ever to be temporary.
Regarding the spam filter, occasionally messages still gets stuck in the queue. I wonder if the SoapBox1.0 destined messages can be allowed to skip that anti-spam check. I'm sure that anything posted into the Soapbox1.0 forum that shouldn't be there will be squashed into non-existence by the SB1.0 Admin/Moderator.
Chris Maunder wrote: Anything else broken or is everything working to your satisfaction at this point?
So far so good. However ... Regarding the members of SB1.0, it is always possible that they may wish to make comments or observations regarding this question, they may even wish to have a wish list of further priviledges. Perhaps you might like to make a general posting, either, or via our Admin/Moderator into SB1.0 to get a greater feeling of SB1.0 member views and also to enquire what members would like to see for future developmen of the forum, it might be greeted with ideas for your consideration.
An example of a further priviledge might be permitting images or even snippets of a webpage (or PDF filetype) limited to "x" characters or "y" paragraphs from that webpage with a "read more" link to the external website delivered within a AJAX accordion control. Of course I appreciate there may well be legal issues in displaying such content, and this will require a more active Admin/Moderator to quickly squash that which should not appear except by means of a hyperlink to an external resource.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Earlier there were three options to submit the article on code project on this page http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/Submit.aspx[^]
I used to submit the article through option 2, i.e. uploading the package from within the page.Now Option 2 is missing and Option 3 has become Option 2.
Is it a bug or an update?
Thanks
Do not forget to comment and rate the article if it helped you by any means.
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It was removed due to abuse. If it's stopping you submitting then I'll re-enable it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My answer to the question disappeared: Web Development | Steps for Beginner to Expert.[^].
Right after the posting, it showed "pending" status and then disappeared immediately, after the page refresh. I did not copy it before posting, so lost it completely.
Sorry, loosing it is not entirely my fault; it never happened before. I really want it back, at least for my own records. It is possible to restore it?
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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You used phrases and words that triggered the spam filter. I approved you reply and it should be visible now.
Even Chris gets caught by it occasionally. To much marketing, I think.
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No way! Thank you anyway.
What are those hints on marketing, by the way? 
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Did you consider letting the spam filter take the member's reputation into account?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Maybe it did 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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No way!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Once again my new article about "LeMP" didn't show up in the weekly newsletter... so I waited for the next newsletter and it didn't appear there either. I rely on the newsletter for page views, so I was wondering if you guys could put it in the next one? Thanks.
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I think your VS 2015 and .Net 4.6 has sneaked onto the site before it is ready!.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm playing with VS2015 since it's first beta (about 4 months) - so it's not that early...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ops 
(I thought it was about the timing not the function...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In the reputation graphic, the legend actually show actual values but the graphic itself don't show data of the current day.
the graphic lines stops at yesterday.
To exhibit the problem, use an account with a small amount of reputation points and do something that give you some points (like posting a few answers) and display the reputation graph.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Today I visited a newly revised article (first posted late April 2015) that is highly up-voted (56 votes: 46 #5's, "six votes removed").
0. there's been some controversy about this author's articles, and the extent to which they are rapidly up-voted, before.
1. the article posted today (revised) is obviously an upgrade/re-write of a previous, different, article (which is also highly up-voted)
2. the code is very buggy in terms of how the user-interface functions at run-time
3. the author has a history of posting stuff that's fresh off his griddle. On a previous article said author wrote in response to a comment on the article's first-version: "This Program i started yesterday morning 11 Am and completed at 5 pm with in a less then a day." But, to his credit, the author has up-dated that article a few times, since then ... whether the author fixed various problems reported is unknown to me since I don't want to use his code.
Given what I've observed of the author's response to feedback in their articles, I am not motivated to give detailed feedback, but I feel like I should make some response.
But, what would be a constructive response ?
Is it fair to compare this article to what I consider the "gold standard" of CodeProject articles, like the articles/code of Mehdi Gholam, Philip Piper, Jani Giannoudis, Sascha Barber, Marc Clifton, etc., where multiple revisions have occurred over years, and functionality extended far beyond the first version of the article/code ?
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Yes, it is fair!
Few months ago, Chris wrote about Article Voting: The dangers of all-good news[^]. He observed that "up-votes are bad when the up-votes are not votes based on the technical merit of an article but instead based on being the author's friend, family or colleague".
I think we all are responsible to take care about the highest quality of CP's articles.
I'm not sure what would be constructive response, but few words you had written here is good enough to share your opinion: "code is very buggy...".
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My 2c.
- If you have opinions on the general quality, Vote!
- If you have specific feedback, post.
I believe I know of whom you're talking, and I agree with you.
But he's writing his articles in a way (a walkthrough) that's obviously appreciated by a lot of readers. (Presumably, in my opinion, newbies)
And most people don't vote on quality but rather on whether it was helpful to them.
Which could easily be compared with facebook where a cat video gets thousands of likes, while and insightful text about solving a problem gets nothing.
This in my opinion is a fault in the voting system that I've already commented here[^].
But to answer your specific question:
Yes it's fair to compare with a gold standard. What else should we compare with?
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On WEB03.
I am not seeing my reply after posting, and not after several page refreshes, either. This was not a problem before the server move, I believe.
Edit: Closed the browser, came back in, and still don't see it. It is listed in my event history.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/k57yIaw.jpg[^]
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Jochen Arndt wrote: If it has triggered on your post the message has put into moderation queue and waited for approval from one of the protectors.
If it has, then that is bad algorithm. The algorithm should take into account that I am a member for so many years, and that I have a certain reputation score (not much )
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We've had members with high rep and old accounts spam, and spam badly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I hear you but I still don't know what I posted that would consider my post as spam. 
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