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A-OK. Thanks, CM!
/ravi
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It seems, that in the past few weeks/months we had few incidents where articles were approved which were of low quality or plain wrong.
Can you look at who is approving things, please. - Article Writing Discussion Boards - CodeProject[^]
Another thread- The Lounge - CodeProject[^]
I looked who have the privilege to approve and disapprove and it seems anybody who has Gold status on following Author, Authority, Debator, Organiser can do it.
I feel that Gold status with Organiser as a stand alone criteria is not good, because any member can achieve this status in max 2 weeks by reporting a spam member/post and this creates a high probability of "new" moderator to approve Low quality articles.
So I would suggest the privilege should be Gold (Organizer) + Silver ( Author/Authority /Debator) or any other Secondary criteria.
Based on the number of spam we get, anyone can actually report 25 members each day for 2 weeks and get Gold status as an organizer and start approving the article.
Just my 2 cents.
cheers,
Super
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Authority is even easier to get as organizer.
I am not critizicing your idea. I like it an I agree. The problem is... how to do it correctly?
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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That's what I have said in my post
cheers,
Super
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Unfortunately our system doesn't allow us to say "Gold X and Silver Y". It works on ORs only. Having said that, an organiser is specifically the member type that should be able to approve / disapprove, and we should be able to have an organiser who isn't also an author or question-answerer.
I think the solution here is one of education.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How about reducing the points to 2 or 1 for reporting the spam?
cheers,
Super
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Good idea!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Add this [^] to list.!
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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Reported and closed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hi,
I have tried to upload the profile image for code project profile, but it is not able to upload. It is showing following page.
https://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Modify.aspx
with following error on page.
Something bad happened
We're not sure what, but we have a few guesses.
Problem: Illegal characters in path.
Ticket: 0
Server: Web01
Please suggest what can i do to upload my profile image.
Regards,
Mukesh
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There is not any delete link for deleting the gravatar and save it. Please let me know the steps how to do that.
Thanks
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Check "remove my picture" and save.
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Yes, I have done it, thanks
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I no longer see the queue.
I distinctly remember that I used to see this queue on the front-page (I even helped out from time to time).
Did something change? Or was the fact that I saw the queue the bug?
Tom
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The queue is actually empty. So it will not be shown on the main page. Wait a while and you might see it again.
But there seem to be some members around at the moment that approve everything as soon as something new pops up.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: The queue is actually empty. So it will not be shown on the main page. Wait a while and you might see it again.
Could be but it's been like that for a few days now.
I'll keep an eye on it for the time being, see if it returns or not.
Tom
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9 items in the queue at the moment...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yep, queue is back.
Must have been cause it was empty, hadn't happen that yet so...
Mystery solved
Tom
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Is there any reason why a message with status "message automatically removed" can't be removed? Not even with the "X" available for protectors?
It is not the first time I ask for help to clean up messages that are already "auto-deleted" but still appearing in the search list with full spam in title or first sentence in overview. When I go to the messages most of them have been successfully reported by the needed members.
I know that if a message contains answers, is more difficult to get ride of it. But when it is the only one... it annoys a bit not being able to delete it.
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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We leave messages in place so that deleted messages can be undeleted.
Nelek wrote: still appearing in the search list with full spam in title or first sentence in overview
This I'll get fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: We leave messages in place so that deleted messages can be undeleted.
Fair enough
Chris Maunder wrote: This I'll get fixed.
This is another reason why I like CP... Thanks for feedback
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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Hi Chris / Sean / Matthew!
I assume you've already seen one of those very obvious spammer accounts like this one:
(Other members reading this please don't report that account so the admins will be able to see what I mean.)
Mucend - Professional Profile - CodeProject[^]
In the last few days I've reported several of these in the Spam&Abuse forum. First I looked them up by manually scrolling through the MemberIdDesc-Pages, then, three days ago, I wrote a program to do this. It collects new accounts that have an image or a biography or a homepage-link (and lists them for inspection and subsequent reporting). So I was able to gather some statistical data (from 3 days) without going crazy:
Approximately 4% of all new accounts satisfy these criteria (image||bio||homepage) and almost all of those actually are spam accounts. With roughly 2000 new accounts per day that's about 80 new (obvious) spammer accounts per day. That's (IMO) more than what can be handled in the Spam&Abuse forum. Thus I would suggest you set up some own procedure to nuke them.
Sascha
(programmer for hire )
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 14-Jan-16 21:24pm.
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I second this one! Good shot!
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What's the pattern you're using? A bio with a link?
Note that links are inactive for new members so they are essentially useless accounts. Still - I'm happy to put together a page that allows these things to be found easier.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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