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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.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I have the same issue. I set my timezone entry to GMT (London etc.) but next time I check, it will say Casablanca. The two timezones are the same so I wonder if it is something related to showing the timezone names in alphabetic order?
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I am located in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria has only one time zone and official time in Bulgaria is UTC+3. In Bulgaria there are summer and winter times, winter is consider default. When it goes to it, it goes to UTC+2. I am not sure if they (government) still keep changing that or it has been made obsolete.
In your system there are two time zones, in which Sofia falls: the first is GMT +1:00 Sarajevo; Skopje; Sofia; Vilnius; Warsaw; Zagreb; and the second is GTM +2:00 Helsinki; Riga; Tallinn; Kyiv; Sofia; Vilnius;
I set several times the first one, GMT +1:00, and in some period of time it goes to the second one, GMT +2:00. So I have notice this change and started to wonder why it happens. That's it.
I believe it is not a security issue. I do not use shared machine and I believe nobody hacked one of mines. Account is old, from 2007 and during this period I have changed several machines, for sure I have logged from many places. I clear user data quite often and I also disconnect all existing connections, if any, expect the current one. However, I am not 100% sure, after all I buy a retail Windows 10 OS and I am sure there is a backdoor in it, but I guess only government security employees can access it and I don't see a reason for them to do it.
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There is an "answer" stuck in QA moderation:
It's been there for 12 hours or more, and has resisted all my attempts to accept or reject it.
It may be an artifact of some kind: it's got no content, it's to an old question, and the member has been here for many years without picking up any recent rep points, even for logging in.
But it just will not die ...
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I'm not sure what the problem was, but its gone now.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Even after an update by CodeProject editor (Deeksha), my blog is still not showing up in the AI section: Data Visualization – Insights with Matplotlib
Looking at other articles, seems it just needs the AI tag which is present on my blog. Am I missing something or there is a bug?
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I'll have a look
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I notice the tags on the home page are still old/auto defined. They were updated and are not the ones that are in article currently.
Looks like updated tags are not reflecting on home page.
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I see you tried. Will take did not turn a low hanging as it seemed so earlier. OR the fix is on the way? 
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The front page uses our Follow System to group the content and select what to display based on your preferences. Unfortunately, we limit the frequency of updates so that the display does not get swamped by tiny little edits.
I've forced a recrawl of the followed events and your article is now showing in the correct place.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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The biography of users that doesn't have enough reputation is hidden with the message: "This member doesn't quite have enough reputation to be able to display their biography and homepage."
And is fine like this.
But if we (long time members that help in the S&A or at least the protectors) could have a button to "make visible for me" we could be a bit more effective hunting spammers.
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I've been mulling this over and ... there are some users that we generally just don't trust - everything about them says "spammer" but there's no actual spam in what they are posting. And generally, we add these to a mental "watch list" of people to keep an eye on. But with the mental problems affecting all us senior citizens I at least tend to forget some of them.
Would it be possible to have a protector-and-above option to send everything a member posts to moderation? And a list we could view and revise as necessary?
We have a "never moderate" option for those with sufficient rep, so it would just be handy to have dodgy members always checked before anything gets through.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And generally, we add these to a mental "watch list" of people to keep an eye on.
Better a small pencil than a big memory
OriginalGriff wrote: Would it be possible to have a protector-and-above option to send everything a member posts to moderation? And a list we could view and revise as necessary?
Maybe not sending to moderation but keep the list anyways to have a fast look by protectors or staff? It would be easier and faster than having to go through searches or the profile lists.
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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The page refreshes automatically (automatically -> I have never been a fan of automation tbh), but the "Sort by" changes nothing in the returns.
How impossible is it to change from latest posts to something relevant?
(perhaps I need more memory?  )
[using FF(v.68.0.2)]
modified 19-Sep-20 17:50pm.
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What were you searching for. If you were searching for "*" then the default search is new->old as relevance is meaningless.
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