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Matthew Dennis wrote: I'm surprised that no one has reported it before.
(luckily) we haven't had such a spam load in a single item for very long or many times...
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Based on activity of Member 14953681 i'd suggest to re-open discussion about IP lock or captcha verification for persons who post many comments/answers in a some interval of time.
This member has posted much over 300 answers in 3 threads! There must be some way to lock such of spammers.
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What about limiting number of comments/answers per day on first week ?
Patrice
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Not sure...
User can be inactive for few weeks or his activity can be "normal" per week, then he start posting spamm/troll/abusive content...
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Yes but like this member, spammers usually do their stuff the very day they register.
Patrice
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Regarding IP addresses: I'm amazed at the number that claim to be "Americans". Can't use some IP verification (like "continent")?
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Member 14951511 - Professional Profile[^]
joined today but already over 1700 points?
M.D.V.
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Oh. I was testing something. That's not a real user. Pay no attention to the member behind the curtain.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Ok.
M.D.V.
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Type '*' in the search box and press enter. It will return a list with the latest messages. These are usually on a page beyond the first.
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That is not my point. What I am talking about is whole threads missing from the normal forum display.
Incidentally, at least some of them show up in a search.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've checked the database and what you see is correct. Strange as it may seem, there don't seem to be that many questions being posted. There are new posts after the one you mentioned, so the site seems to be working correctly.
Maybe they all moved over to Q&A.
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Thanks Matthew, that seems to confirm my observations.
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Thanks! Put my original message down to a geriatric's brain fart.
I was sure I'd seen more threads in the intervening week, but obviously not.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Member 14950662 - Professional Profile[^]
and
Member 14950661 - Professional Profile[^]
have the same summon nick (User-14917012) and hence the same "members" URL.
Additionally the name shown in the "Who's who" List is not the nickname of the profile list, but the summon name, what usually is not the case.
Same stats, same profile "pic", I clicked in the upper link of the list and I got both links marked as visited (purple)
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... Shows the article, but does not provide any way to accept or reject it. To do that, you have to request the "Desktop site" and then it's to small to read comfortably on a phone.
To be honest, I only noticed because I'm "between tablets" and using my phone to browse CP...
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And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings. This is happening on regular basis, I would suggest to support employees (to few ones in particular): Stop doing it.
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It's not a support employee: they have no access to your computer and the cookies stored there so even if they wanted to (which I'm sure they don't) they couldn't mess with them. Making random accusations like that isn't polite; it borders on the edge of rudeness and abusive behaviour!
It's a bug, and one which crops up from time to time and which the developers are trying pretty hard to find and fix - but since it's intermittent, and doesn't happen to everybody it's proving very, very elusive. The best thing you could do to help is try to remember if they get scrambled after you perform some specific sequence of events or timings, and tell the staff via the Sugs'n'Bugs forum so that might help them track it down instead of assuming malicious activity!
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I believe this has nothing to do with cookies on my machines. Only timezone is visibly changed, other settings are not. The main thing resulting from this change, and main reason for my frustration, is that after this seemingly minor change in settings, just a timezone change, my comments on articles are treated like spam. So, I have published several articles, I have posted some amount of comments and questions on various code project articles and yet, on regular basis my profile is changed and my comments are marked as spam.
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The spam detector has nothing to do with timezones: it uses content to decide and a heuristic system to learn what is and isn't spam.
A bunch of your - identical - comments appeared in moderation this morning and I let them through, then deleted the three spares. That should help to let the system "know" what isn't spam in the future, but it understandably takes time to learn "this isn't spam". Sometimes "real spam" providers try very hard top make the content look "spam free" and the system becomes a little paranoid. But ... it's pretty good at learning, and as it protects the site from the floods of spam we periodically get, all members live with the minor inconvenience of occasionally waiting a few minutes for a post to be accepted by a real human being. It decided I was a spammer a couple of times and I had to release my own posts from moderation! 
Live with it for the moment, if you can - the system will catch up to you and release you from "all items moderated" fairly soon, I'm sure.
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Yeah, I have posted the same content several times, because I wondered whether it is a bug or it is moderated, deleting the redundant comment is fine. I am also fine with waiting some time before comment is moderated, this is a minor thing.
I am not sure about your comment for timezone and that it has nothing to do with system. Usually such system weight various comments from various users and based on this example set they determine what is spam and what is not. One example from similar issue: years ago, bunch of football fans decided to make fun and cheer up few local players. So, for Macedonian version of Google translate they started to confirm as input a name of relatively unknown player and as a translation in English a name of world famous player appear. Both names, both strings has nothing to do, neither as character proximity, neither as similar character combinations. So the translation service just weighted what users tells it - this sequence of characters is being transformed into another and real users confirms it is fine. And when this is confirmed by hundreds of fans for a specific geographic location it stays like that. This funny translations lasted for several months, before being fixed.
So something similar is happening here - for specific settings your spam system looks at some references and treat comments like spam. Few persons can easily get the last comments made by a user, post them in various sites and then mark them there as spam. They just need to know which sites are used as references by your spam system and that's it. Of course, this is just my suggestion, it might has nothing to do with real reason 
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See my comment to Matthew's message. I notice that Kiev and Sofia are in the same timezone so that may be the issue.
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I've reviewed your account and do not see anything suspicious.
We would not change you Time Zone setting.
Have you used a shared computer, say in an internet café, and not logged out?
The only other possibility I can think of is that someone has either obtained your credentials, or hacked you computer and is using your account.
You might want to change your password.
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