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Or he was just focusing on his back to back threads here - this is the 4th one in a row. I think the site staff know what's going on and are just humoring him at this point. 
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January 2015, even. 
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I didn't want him to take too hard... 
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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I believe Griff has a lot thicker skin than that.
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If you reject QA material, it goes to QA and is marked as edited by you!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It goes to QA as available or closed? (should be the latter)
You are, in effect, editing the post. Your action in reporting it is closing it, so you've edited it.
(and yeah, I get this doesn't always seem to make the most sense. Your thoughts?)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It was as available, I think (I've slept since then!)
But...that may have been an artifact of the "QA has vanished" effect we had on Saturday.
I don't think the act of letting a message through is editing: it's moderating in the same way as we moderate articles, so we aren't changing it - just correcting a "false positive" in the detector.
And if we vote it as "spam, delete that sucker!" then it should never appear in QA anyway, so it's sensible to mark it as edited as that gives an audit trail of who-did-what-to-which.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We're starting to get a lot of posts where they are hiding the links in punctuation - so it isn't immediately obvious that it's spam when you look at the "formatted" message. In fact I've just found that I let a number of such posts through because they looked normal (judging by the editor credits) 
This spammer for example: Member 12425589 - Professional Profile - CodeProject[^]
Could we have a optional HTML view (or better a "this contains links with no real text" indicator)?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wow. That's sneaky. Useless you accidentally stumble on it with the pass of a mouse you'll never see it.
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Yeah - so you read it in moderation and it looks fine, so you let it through...
I wonder if Chris could run a direct SQL search for href tags with a single character link text (other than '^' obviously)?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What if we highlighted links in the text?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This has a link at the period.
This too but it is highligthed.
Still hard to detect.
Especially when the link text is just a space where highlighting does not help.
Even a single letter filter would not help with the above sentence. It contains two links where the link text contains multiple characters.
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I've highlighted the links using background-color:yellow in the moderation pages. It shows up pretty clearly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So you have backlighted the links. That makes sense.
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The page for all QA questions (with no filtering set at all) is blank: zero questions, just the message "sorry, no entries were found" - not even the "top experts" list is displayed.
If I look at "my questions" or "my answers" they are all there - and the "top experts" list is visible.
Both the "full list" and "my questions" are shown from web02, so it doesn't seem to be a specific webserver problem.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Same here.
Server or DataBase crash on weekly HouseKeeping ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Not sure - it came back up briefly and I could answer a question. But then it went again.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I said this because it vanished at a time (weekly) where my answers don't get reputation for 2-3 hours
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Take the hint from the hamsters... go on a holiday!
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Working now. Simple config issue on the latest deploy.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Don't you hate it when that happens?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There seems to be a constant stream of old QA questions popping up to the top of the "View All Questions..." list that do not appear to have had any recent activity on them at all, even though it says that the item was "updated 3 minutes ago".
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Yeah, I've noticed that as well. People will then submit solutions to really old items. Maybe there should be a time limit at which point threads cannot be updated.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's me. When I delete answers, it registers the question as having recent activity. We're going to discuss precisely how we want QA to behave in regard to recent activity. But for now, don't worry, I did it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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