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OriginalGriff wrote: Best let people know before it goes live
Fully agree
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 can use rate timing based on retutation on activities like ask question, answering etc..
for example:
Asking question
1. rep count < 1k: 1 question for 10 minute
2. otherwise : 1 question for minute and if posting more than that better to use captcha
using captcha will be prevent most of the bots. we can show captcha when user try to answer more than one per 30 seconds.
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CAPTCHA is a solution that annoys everybody and doesn't slow down spammers one bit. The spammers are humans, not bots.
The latest spammer was posting answers, not questions, and limiting answers limits someone's ability to help out. Sure - we can limit an answer per minute, but this doesn't help the general issue which is usually one or two spam messages per account.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris - just a suggestion: how about you re-enable the message / thread delete buttons in forums for Protectors as well? We have them, but they just say "you don't have permission" so they are currently a little pointless.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You mean: fix that bug?
(Sorry about that. Fixed, will deploy when I get on solid ground again)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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 well, I squashed it for you, at least.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Should be fixed now. Sorry
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Then I think you need to reconsider the auto-report-the-member functionality when reporting a forum post as spam.
I like the functionality, but I feel there is a potential for a Protector inadvertently killing a legitimate member in the one-shot case.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: Then I think you need to reconsider the auto-report-the-member functionality
That was disabled ages ago.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It still works like that for spam reports. Perhaps it was only disabled for abuse reports.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Should be able to trap and Q&A volume that is extraordinary, IE more than # responses per time period suspends the account for a period of time and alerts the protector. I presume there are only 2 channels to choke on, answer and question posting.
You could set the variables as parameters and allow the protectors to vary them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I presume there are only 2 channels to choke on, answer and question posting.
What about messages in articles or normal forum or comments in QA?
I think that can be a bit more difficult to catch than we think (as CM already said)
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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I don't think comments would be so critical, while read that don't show up as an answer and the OP may still get a solution if there are no registered answers.
It is never as simple in reality as it is from the outside!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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.. I today stumbled upon this account[^]. named CodeProject.
He (it)'s been updating questions in the Quick Answers section, so I just wanted to know whether CodeProject owns it or not.
Looking at his (its) speed of answering the question with almost good logic is a good news for CodeProject if its a CodeProject's bot.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Exactly!
I have reported the profile as Abusive/Troller. Hopefully it will be taken down.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I clicked on a few links in QA questions from whatever/whoever 'Codeproject Bot' is: one of them was a link back to the QA question itself.
This is clearly some form of abuse of CodeProject. But, why would someone take the time to do this, or to write some program that automated this kind of nonsense ?
That it's easy to bloat one's reputation-score on QA by rapid look-up on Google, and pasting in links into a "solution," without any real effort to understand the question, and whether or not the links found are really relevant to the question asked ... that's already obvious to most people.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Right, but that doesn't make sense. This (bot) is not even posting those Googled CodeProject answers. He is even posting MSDN links. Have a look at this answer[^].
He (it) posted a totallyyyyy un-relative link.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Now up to 277 answers all today! Certainly needs some more kicks.
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283 and 1% might be helpfull, 99% are spam posts. Some link upto MSDN, some to Support.Microsoft etc.
Its really annoying.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It is because it does not make "sense" that I am interested in what the motivation of the creator of this nuisance might be:
1. because they are a troll, and this is what troll's do ? just a form of vandalism ?
2. because they get-off showing how they can hack into systems, or do end-runs around web-site control ? showing-off ?
3. is this someone taking some form of "revenge" on CodeProject for some personal reason ?
4. is this someone practicing for joining the cyber-wing of some liberation-army or fanatic group ?
... or ... ?
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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No, it's not us.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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.. I really like the new Profile Page. (Yes, I do!).
But I think, if you just remove the LinkedIn label from the profile page (that is written alongwith the the LinkedIn image) since Twitter and Google+ don't have it. Image link[^].
Just asking. 
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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You're too quick: I was in the middle of an update.
All done, and the layout is as it should be.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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