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Maybe the article submissions need an "I am not a robot" button - easier said than done I realise.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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aw come on, it's just people doing their job.
there's > 7 million graduates per year in china, they gotta start somewhere.
... just as every young kid everywhere around the world knows the first place to figure out how something works is by smashing it.
perhaps cp could start a forum just for spam? (auto purge every 5 min.)
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Yes, they have to start somewhere and they can all start somewhere else.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Maybe they are testing a article on how to automatically submit tips and tricks to CP.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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It seems the spam is coming from just a few accounts and I wouldn't be surprised if the posts are automated. You might make things easier for yourself by making a "stealth ban" option where you prohibit the account from posting any articles, tips, or blogs. The account holder won't know anything about it. The site will just swallow anything it posts.
Another option is to flag (ie., notify a responsible person) postings with lots of unicode in their title since it's one thing all of this spam has in common and is rarely seen in legitimate posts.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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If you allow any external links or image links and such, they could well be trying to get people to click on, or even just access, nefarious things that they can exploit somehow.
Explorans limites defectum
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It appears that the spam has slowed down considerably for the moment. You must have banned all of the culprits. They'll probably start signing up again soon.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The question has been up before, but things change and it's time to see if there are any new programs around worth looking at.
My kids are seven and eight and have finished Lightbot.
What's your recommendations?
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Lego Technic, if it still exists. May keep you busy for some weeks too 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Still exists, still costing a fortune. 
And yes I might, if he keeps his interest.
Just realized they have an app that doesn't need the physical lego, I have a look at that.
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I had Lego Mindstorms too, was expensive, but really good!
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They're doing Scratch at school, but I'll have a look at Logo.
Thanks.
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I would suggest you teach them about spatial thinking and problem-solving.
Basic skills that every programmer person needs. Then comes ethics in about 2 years.
Skill in a particular technology isn't hard to achieve after that.
Moreover, they might switch interests in a few years and not even like programming that much.
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Do they want to learn programming?
At that age I was making go karts and stuff, dens in woods, rope swings. Perhaps let them be kids?
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Yes, and no worries, I'm not pushing it on them.
The big one started playing around with Scratch at school, and since he knows I'm working as a programmer he wanted to learn more. So I showed him Lightbot. And now he wants more.
I guess it's just a period, but why not. There are so much worse things they can do.
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OK, fair enough.
(My daughter, 15, looks at what I do and is in horror at the sheer complexity of it! )
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It's obviously not for everyone, especially not the under the hood stuff you do.
How did you get into that by the way?
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Yes, I suppose what I do doesnt look fun or funky, has no UI.
I guess I naturally gravitated to the low level stuff, I found it much more challenging and interesting. My second job was writing a driver for Windows. I only got it because there was no one around any more capable than I was, and I had no idea, I was just in the area, looking for a new role, and had a couple of years doing low level user mode stuff in windows.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I guess I naturally gravitated to the low level stuff,
Are you that fat?  
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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Gravity and I have an intimate relationship....
Actually no, I chose my pen name from the two atomic bombs, fat man and little boy. Plus fat boy is an affectionate name in Cantoneese (my wife lived there many years and speaks it fluently. SOmething like 'faizai', at least that is how it sounds to me.  ) I am not particularly overweight, for a 50+ year old programmer at least!
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I raised 3 daughters, now in their 30s. None were interested in programming, but all 3 married IT guys.
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