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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.
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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.
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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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It would be good if the "thread last updated date" was re-generated from the active answers and comments when an answer is deleted.
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Please correct this finally. It is really the hell and very suspecious that a programming Forum can not Support this in a intuitive way!
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I have been experiencing many articles downvotes after members are not required to give a reason for their downvotes. I deleted all my articles to protect their ratings. As you can see my comments are all downvoted with no clear reason.
Screenshot to show my articles are downvoted within minutes.
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Why delete the articles? There are always idiots around who do this sort of thing, but does it really do you any harm?
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This is the 3rd time it happened recently, I have lost 360 reputation points and some of my articles only have 3 to 4 votes and having a univote pull down the score alot.
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Shao Voon Wong wrote: I have lost 360 reputation points
So what? Reputation points mean nothing at all,really. I can understand you but still....
Request you to reopen the deleted ones. Wait for admins to respond. They take necessary actions if they feel its required.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Rohan Leuva wrote: Reputation points mean nothing at all,really.
You must be joking. Sites like CodeProject and Stack Overflow have invested so much time, effort, and thought into implementing a functional/desirable reputation scoring system, and you make a statement like that trivializing their efforts.
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