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Ooooh, the Pete Leaks!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Well yes, but he wears the special underwear so you'd hardly notice.
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Oh, man...
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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I had to recommend them to Griffin. Prior to that he had to blame it on the sheep.
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Still do...
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Congratulations to all...
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I think an honorary MVP must be given to wife/partner of all the MVPs.
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Just got a link above 'X items need approval' to confirm that a spam message IS spam?
Why I got that? It's now for everyone?
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'm seeing it now too - the links aren't working properly yet ...
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It means the spam filter is working at long last! Yay!
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Look, this board is for software developers, who know that everything takes ten to fifteen times longer than originally planned.
It's obviously part of the preparations for next Xmas.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And I thought to myself,
"These are pseudo science: nobody with any form of rational thought believes in it."
"So...why not have a 'Developer Capcha' on QA posts?"
We could make everyone who wants to post a question solve a small (two lines, maybe) C# (or even - gawd forbid - VB) coding problem, or fix a syntax error before they can post!
That'd keep 'em out!
Then I realised why it wouldn't work: most of the QA question posters would fail...and quite a few of the answerers as well...
Ho, hum. Back to the drawing board...
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OriginalGriff wrote: solve a small (two lines, maybe) C# (or even - gawd forbid - VB) coding problem And they will report you for 'black magic'!
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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OriginalGriff wrote: We could make everyone who wants to post a question solve a small (two lines, maybe) C# (or even - gawd forbid - VB) coding problem, or fix a syntax error before they can post!
When reading this I visualised mentally a poor guy that has to solve a problem similar to the question he wants to ask
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That's just cruel...
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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Good idea though!
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It will drop QA traffic near zero...There will be time to handle all the 'black magic'...
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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You think the spammers are brighter and more technically literate than most QA posters?
Could be, when I come to think about it...
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Yeah, I am afraid they would be able to Google themselves to an answer. Besides, they deal in magic, so...
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I cannot solve capcha; plz send codz, urgent.
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Yes - but they'll have to post that on SO...:EvilLaughSmiley:
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I cannot solve capcha; plz send codz, urgent.
In that case, then they will fill the CP emails with help requests, using the same message as quoted.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Then I realised why it wouldn't work: most of the QA question posters would fail...and quite a few of the answerers as well How about a check-box with the question: "Can you levitate ?" We could have a weekly vote on which value of the CheckState would ban the logger-head in order to confuse hackers who write spam-bots.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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Or one of those "1+1+1+1*0" things that 99% of the people on social media gets wrong.
If a programmer gets it wrong, they are beyond help.
modified 4-Jan-15 10:15am.
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