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I assumed that not being able to blow them away with spam/abuse flags was just a reaction to people abusing the flags against normal users because they couldn't downvote anymore. But OriginalGriff[^] says he can't kill them with his Protector tools either. This means that such charming[^] examples[^] of linkspam are around indefinitely; and if Google has supposedly figured out how to detect and penalize the spammy SEOers, they're also supposedly penalizing sites that don't clean up the garbage that gets posted to them. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
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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Dan Neely wrote: I assumed that not being able to blow them away with spam/abuse flags
The spam/abuse flags are in place and work. Are you seeing something different?
One point is that the spam/abuse system is different on forums than Quick Answers, and the threshold was increased to moderate the more trigger happy.
Both those messages are no longer with us.
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Chris Maunder
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Both still loaded for me when I posted here, and one was a day old; and before they got killed in the last few minutes I can't actually remember the last time I saw a spam message go away on the lounge even though the perpetrators account was almost always a smoking hole within minutes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
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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Another example for what you say:
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=4904317#xx4904317xx[^]
User is already gone, but message still there
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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Just checked: something's busted with the reporting. Opening this as a priority bug.
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Chris Maunder
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Last few days I have answered so many C# and ASP.net,JS and so many other questions on the quick answers section. Some one down voting my every answers if I had working examples on jsfiddle, dotnetfiddle or even users has accepted the answer. He wants to remove me from Top experts in the month and Top experts in the 24 hrs. Some times I had some arguments with some members when answering. I think on of them wants to pull me down. I cant find who is doing that. Help me plz..
Gihan Liyanage
http://gihansampathliyanage.wordpress.com
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Gihan Liyanage wrote: Some times I had some arguments with some members when answering
I was one of them. And i have always commented the down voted answers. Further, i don't know about frequent downvotes. Admins can see and resolve it. Many members have faced the similar issue in past including me.
Gihan Liyanage wrote: He wants to remove me from Top experts in the month and Top experts in the 24 hrs
Why you felt so? Does it really matters at all?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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No, I don't have any matters, But I really thought because I was there since number of days. Any way good to wait and see. Because I dont want to be there or i dont want to increase my reputation levels. I just want to help others and improve my knowledge based on questions because these days I dont have much more work at office. So thanx for repplying. I will wait and see. any how continue with answering.
Gihan Liyanage
http://gihansampathliyanage.wordpress.com
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In my opinion the amount of articles/tips etc with almost no explanation has been increasing. I've also noticed several posts complaining that the quality of articles has been going down.
What if a new category would be created. Call it a "code dump", "my shared code", "figure this out", whatever, but the idea would be that these would be public (as they are now) but the voting would be different. An upvote would give +1 where a downvote would have a minus one impact.
Not sure but this could encourage people to expand the articles and if not, they'd still have a channel to publish code, even though not as rewarding as articles.
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Mika Wendelius wrote: the quality of articles has been going down
It is. I think Chris and Sean are busy inventing something new and working on it behind the walls. No new changes are being implemented.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Mika Wendelius wrote: Not sure but this could encourage people to expand the articles and if not, they'd still have a channel to publish code, even though not as rewarding as
articles.
At least it would give as a break, we could just ignore a section and concentrate in what really matters or deserves it 
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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You mean chasing spammers 
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That solution depends on people categorising their articles correctly. Typically if an article is bad it's often all bad: the title, the categorisation, the tags.
Any issue with simply voting it down and/or asking the author to stop dumping code and instead provide explanatory articles?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Typically if an article is bad it's often all bad: the title, the categorisation, the tags
That's true that many articles are bad or incomplete or incorrect on all levels...
Chris Maunder wrote: Any issue with simply voting it down and/or asking the author to stop dumping code and instead provide explanatory articles?
There's no issue on that but very often I face a situation where an article has 4 incomplete "votes" when in queue and still after an hour or so it's published in all it's glory. Not sure but I get a feeling that some people approve the articles simply to get rep points. Also once published it's really much harder to get the author to make any corrections.
Don't know, perhaps it's not a good idea to have a separate category, perhaps the rules for publishing could be changed when an article is in queue. Something like: If incomplete votes, article would go to "special" queue or need more approvals than article with mainly approvals... Or something..
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Hi Mika,
In my mind, the information revealed in this post: that you are focusing on articles in the approval queue, and how they are approved, kind of changes the focus of this entire thread ... for me.
I can say with certainty that I would never look at any content in a hypothetical "code dump" category.
cheers, Bill
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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Hi Bill,
Yes you're right the title is a bit misleading. What I'd like to see is better control of what get published and what doesn't. As I wrote to Chris, once an article has been published the author isn't so interested in correcting it. So based on that idea, I think the queue is critical in this sense
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Chris Maunder wrote: Any issue with simply voting it down and/or asking the author to stop dumping code and instead provide explanatory articles?
My experience in the past of leaving critical feedback, or down-voting, on CP articles has left me with the conviction it's generally not worth dealing with the ensuing OP's reaction, and concomitant headache.
Yes, I favor anonymous down-voting on articles, clearly recognizing that allowing that opens yet another gate-to-Hell.
yours, Bill the Coward
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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how can i find and follow user in Code project and check his updates and answers
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This functionality is not available. You have to manually search for that user and go through his content e.g. Content from Chris[^]. You can filter them using filters on the left pane.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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You could use Who's Who page[^] to find members, there's a textbox to filter. Bookmark the member through the member's profile page, recheck the profile page to see updates.
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See the survey list[^]. The 8-Sep to 22-Sep survey overlaps the 15-Sep to 22-Sep one, causing it to appear on the home page.
/ravi
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That page still includes Premium membership type. Isn't Workspace closed already?
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Yes, but it seems that premium type is staying
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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Apparently the Premium membership type has been gone now.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Still folding up the chairs and taking down the signs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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