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Chris Maunder wrote: What's the pattern you're using? A bio with a link? No, just any bio other than the string "No Biography provided". Or any image other than a gravatar. Or any homepage-link (which is not inactive for new members).
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm happy to put together a page that allows these things to be found easier. The problem I'm seeing here when handling this through "traditional means" of reporting is the amount of these accounts per day: Approx. 80; that's 1600 clicks required per day to kick them.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So essentially you're just looking for non-trivial bio's to narrow down the checking. Gotcha
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yep, turned out almost all new accounts with any bio are such spammer accounts without doubt.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Another observation: A lot of them are re-using the same image over and over. (Most of the images show some silly 3d toon or look like they're shots of inmates or terrible B-movie characters.) So I guess you could nuke a whole lot at once by scanning your DB for identical images and confirming the image-groups as spammer accounts by looking at just one exemplary account per group. Storing the hashes of these images might be useful for taking further steps.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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In addition to my (indirect) suggestion to make homepage-links available only with a certain reputation: Allowing a signature also only with a certain reputation to prevent spam-sigs. Refer: Article forum spammer - CodeProject[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Hi everyone,
I have not received the verification email and I not find nowhere assistance information about this.
Could you help me?
Thanks for advance.
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I have sent you an email confirmation request. Please let me know if you receive it OK.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Not yet!
I tried to send email from another account and if it comes, even yesterday I received a verification email from other forums.
Any suggestions?
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Is it in your spam folder or anything?
This is the newsletter FAQ entry, but some may still apply. Are any of these a problem?
CodeProject Member FAQ[^]
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:26pm.
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:26pm.
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:27pm.
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Message Closed
modified 14-Jan-16 17:27pm.
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You're Right, But I have a persist notification that says me:
Your email address needs to be confirmed.
I shouldn't worry about it? How or when disappear that?
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Dude, he's emailing you directly, so his responses are not actually posted here. So an arbitrary observer would see you repeatedly replying to yourself crossly, and you couldn't blame them for thinking that perhaps you opened a bottle on Thursday afternoon.
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Haha , you're right too! Only that the email says:
Do not hit 'reply' to this email: To reply, click here.
Anyway, thanks for your answer.
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You mean we're not supposed to open a bottle early Thursday afternoon?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No,
you are supposed to open it late Thursday morning, let it breath a bit and then drink it early Thursday afternoon
(disclamer: probably depends on what is in the bottle, and I have no clue if it's actually true or not but...)
Tom
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This account[^] was closed for posting a plagiarised article[^].
The user has signed up again (Member 10510822[^]) to re-post the article[^]. He has a different user ID, but has kept his original reputation. The comments[^] from his old account are now associated with his new account, although the messages and QA contributions are not.
Is this a bug lurking deep in the bowels of the database?
"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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That happens when you sign-up using the same e-mail account.
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Doesn't mean it's not a bug, though.
"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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Agree. I think the e-mail should get banned (Thought it did)
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Richard Deeming wrote: Is this a bug lurking deep in the bowels of the database?
It's a symptom of us being too kind in the past.
Long story.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Before I took a break from CP some months ago there was a "formatting-styles box" whenever writing a message. Where did it go and why? Can I re-enable it somewhere?
Edit:
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
CRC 4079364738
Edge False
Chrome False
Gecko True
IE False
Opera False
Safari False
Blink False
WebKit False
Browser Firefox
Platform Type Desktop
Standard True
Display Mode Normal
Version string 0.0
Version 0
Platform Win7
Platform Version 6.1
Editable Elements False
Mobile Device False
Small Mobile Device False
Touch Device False
Desktop True
Tablet False
Modern False
Semi-Modern False
Cookies OK? True
Server Web04
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 13-Jan-16 9:29am.
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