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Sigh.
This is why writing software that developers use is so hard.
I wanted to consolidate the report types because it cleaned up a few things neatly. I'm starting at the report names and thinking "spammer"..."spam"...they are close. They mean the same thing (internally). "Spam has been posted". So "Spam has been posted [by this member]" and "Spam has been posted [in this message]".
"So surely if I just made it "spam" it would be OK?" I says to myself. "Maybe I should make it 'Spam posted'? Would that then confuse them on the member profile page when they start looking for the spam that was posted on the profile page? Who was it posted by? Where'd it go? Would I totally freak everyone out? <takes large slurp of beer>".
So I left it at Spam.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Dear Colleagues,
Eventually, I've got one more question for you: Do I really contribute articles containing a harmful spam to the CodeProject's web site, don't I ?! 
Recently, I've posted an article introducing the Windows Vista/7 sidebar gadget intended to load and render the articles-specific data from the CodeProject's main web page.
*ALSO*, some time ago, I've previously posted a message with my question if development and using of such web applications is not itself harmful and dangerous to the CodeProject's web site. Finally, as the respond, I've been suggested to complete this gadget's development and compose an article being presently contributed to the CodeProject.
An hour ago, I've already posted a message with a similar subject under the site bugs and suggestion forum, *BUT*, this post was marked as spam as well under no reason ?!
Thanks a lot for reading this message.
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It's not you, it's us.
Fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Dear Colleagues,
I'm not a newbie, *BUT*, it's still kind of strange to me that recently my latest article A Simple Windows 7 Gadget To Preview CodeProject's Featured Articles[^] was totally downvoted by someone with even no comments have been posted. It's interesting to me and I'm just wondering why specifically my latest article really deserves the vote of "1". ??? I apologize for my question, but this article contains the either source code or web application that has merely no bugs and is ready to be used. Also, the article's contents being published are clear enough to understand by the most of the readers.
*ALSO*, recently, I logged into my CodeProject's account, navigated to the page containing the list of my articles published and noticed that multiple untitled empty article's templates were occasionally added. As well, one of the templates created containing a couple of paragraph of an unfinished article being composed was automatically renamed as if it's an untitled article. I've tried to update the title of the article, but the updates were not reflected by the editor. At the same time, when it's opened for editing, the article's title editable field contains the proper article's title, which is not correctly displayed anywhere else.
I normally tend to suspect the case that probably someone illegitimately logged into my account using my credentials.  ... Or, this is just a site bug ?!?!?!
I would kindly appreciate if you see what the problem actually is and help me out to fix it. 
Thanks for spending a moment reading this message. Waiting for your reply.
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Down votes happen. And you don't have to leave a comment to explain why so that the recipient can't start a vendetta against the voter.
A quick look shows two votes: a 1 and a 5. The 5 is a high ranking vote - the overall result of 1 and 5 gave 4.2, so it's a high rank 5 versus a low rank 1 - and the 1 is a newbie. So it may be he's confused, pressed the wrong button, or it wasn't what he wanted so he downvoted it. Or perhaps he just doesn't like you. All of these things happen.
Yes, it hurts to put a load of work into something and some "low life" just down votes it but that's life - some people are natural born trolls. It's happened to me, it's happened to most people.
The ranking system is set up to discard spurious votes: so if the article collects enough 4 & 5 votes, the spurious 1 will be discarded (or vice versa, if enough people decide an article stinks, spurious 5 votes can get discarded as well). So I'd just ignore it: it'll sort itself out in the near future, I'm sure.
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Thanks a lot for your reply and detailed explanation. My very kind appreciations. 
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You're welcome!
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Arthur V. Ratz wrote: noticed that multiple untitled empty article's templates were occasionally added
I've tweaked the permissions a little so you can see articles that have been deleted. This means you'll see a bit of debris left over from past attempts at starting and abandoning articles.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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One "thank you, it helped me" is worthier than 1000 5-Vote
Don't even care about a couple of 1-Votes
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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Yes sure, it's true.
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If I reply to someone and my reply is flagged as potential spam, others see it as awaiting moderation. However, if the OP has set up email notification to replies to their posts, they get the unmoderated message via email right away. Email delivery should only occur if/when the message has made it through the moderation queue.
/ravi
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... and I think the same thing should apply to the "five second rule" or whatever it is that allows you to edit a forum post briefly after posting (without it being flagged as an edit). The original is the one emailed. So I could say something very rude to you in this message then edit it out before anyone else sees it. I haven't seen any evidence of this happening, but one day "smart" and "nasty" will be found in bed together.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The subject explains it. Faced a hard attack of your spam filter in The Lounge, finally deleted all my really non abuse Messages there.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: finally deleted all my really non abuse Messages
I don't understand. You deleted message that weren't spam?
With respect to allowing authors to delete other's messages on their article forums: sorry, no. This opens the door to members deleting non-spam posts if the spam filter is too twitchy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: With respect to allowing authors to delete other's messages
I think he means allow the OP to delete/modify their own message that was flagged as potential spam.
/ravi
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Exactly! Thank you.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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My tuppence worth: if I was a spammer, that would save me whole load of time and effort working out what does get through the filters...
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Ok, then do Report me as a Spammer, it is ok, if I don't fit this communitity.
But sorry, I did not even posted the smallest spammy things today (I know there was a time where I break the rule before some years), but (I think of my low rep) it was catched as spam.... or maybe it was only mentioned OS in a post?
BTW: tuppence.. it Needs Leo to understand it  
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I haven't reported you as a spammer - I don't think I have in any of your incarnations - so if you got a kick in the "recent activity" list it wasn't me.
Mind you, I can't see any reason why the filter picked you up on those messages, that's why I let them through when I saw them...
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lol and onece again, "Message currently under Review".
By, I know how to delete the acc
The really what I will miss is all the Bookmarks and People like you 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Don't delete your account again, please!
@Chris-Maunder - can you reset his spammer count? I'll vouch for him as "One of the Good Guys" if necessary.
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I've cleared the report (and it wasn't you, Grif).
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thank you for your help again. I'm back 
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yay! Good to see you!
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Gotcha.
In this case, again, no.
Firstly: the spam filter was misfiring but I've now fixed that so you should not be getting the false reports you saw yesterday. Basically: it should not be an issue that needs fixing because if you are caught as a spammer (rare) then it's usually made public quickly.
Secondly, as Grid pointed out, it provides a great way for spammers to quickly test their messages and get them past our spam filter. That's a Bad Idea.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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