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How about requiring new users to click on a confirmation link sent to their email address before allowing them to post?
Lots of other boards do it, and it just might make it enough of a hassle that some spammers won't bother.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It won't really be any hassle, as this can be easily automated.
It might thwart the ones though that are to stupid to that. So why not?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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We already require confirmation on some forums and they still spam.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ask for a CC number as well... 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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The "Which of the following have you used?" poll is set to run until March 25th. I think it will get kind of old after a few more weeks 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I marked 3 posts as spam, refreshed the page and noted that they were then then marked as removed (at which point I thought - hey God powers, cool).
I then wandered off to see if there were any other posts worth nuking with my new super powers, when I returned to the Lounge the removed posts were back, slightly advanced time. There were no vote counts.
I then repeated the excercise proving my God powers were in my browser only. I thought you had maybe given select users 1 vote nukability, which may not be a bad idea as some here you can trust not to abuse the ability!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Second sighting. I had also red-flagged the three Lounge spam posts. Came back later to see "Automatically Removed" on all three, returned later again to see they had reappeared  .
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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These transient God powers are very frusterating.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's a miracle...
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Take a look to the lower left corner. There are some infos there, one of them is which server are you connected to "Web0x". There are some problems with the synchronisation of the different servers.
I have already seen, that I answer to a thread, go to other place and come back and there are 5 or 6 threads less (where my answer not exist yet), just several F5 or go to another forum and come back get you to another Web0x and then.... voila, all is there (or not)
You can check it with your reputation as well, depending on which one you connect, your reputation is 40 or 50 points less than it should
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 helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have seen you mention something like that in the past, so I actually did make a mental note, that when I saw the messages reappeared, the page came from Web03.
When I returned later and saw them removed again, I tried to refresh a few times, but could not seem to "land on" Web03 again, so I did not research it any further.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Strange... I quite oft have Problems with Web02 and sometimes with Web04 
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 helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It is possible the hamsters just decided to run the other way around in the wheel
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I think someone forgot the rules:
- Don't let any water touch Gizmo.
- Never, NEVER give them food after midnight.
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 helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I am currently hopping around between Web04 and Web02. Seems like they like me <3
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Sounds like you're hitting a different server with a different set of messages in its cache. An outstanding bug we have is that each server's cache is not synchronised.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Damn I was hoping for God powers! It is not really an issue to me, I would not have noticed except I was nuking spam, I not interested in instant rep information and rarely follow up a question I have responded to unless asked.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I am using Chrome Version 26.0.1410.12 dev-m on a Win7/64 machine.
This is a fairly frequent, but: intermittent, problem. And, I would judge it "minor," in the sense that when you do post the message any content that has not appeared in the Preview frame is in the message posted.
Omissions of line-breaks are most frequent.
While composing messages, on the Forums, including the Lounge, often the preview of the message appears to "freeze" at some arbitrary point, and never updates. And, some of the content of certain lines, at times is arbitrarily "omitted."
As you would assume, given Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," this effect is not happening now, as I write this message
If this is not a Chrome bug (quite possible: lately the dev versions of Chrome have had really surprising behaviors appear), then I hypothesize (very weakly) that it could be related to the intensity of traffic on CP's servers that handle forums.
Could "live preview updating" be "dampened" (queued ?) by a couple of hundred-thousand people writing messages at the same time ?
But, when the preview update never appears, as does happen, after minutes, and much editing of the message, then I suspect something different.
Right now the only thing that temporarily "disappeared" while writing this message from the preview was one line-break, and the question-mark after the line ending: "the same time." Those both re-appeared fairly quickly.
And, in writing the final paragraph here: "final paragraph" first appeared in the preview as "final para." And, now, that's gone.
A "tempest in a teapot" ?
Whoops, the preview just left out the word "teapot:" for about ten seconds.
yrs, Bill
This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.
Abu Yazid Al-Bistami (Persian, Sufi, 804-872)
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A few of things could be happening
1. A javascript issue. If you hit F12 to open Dev tools then there's a console that shows errors. A JS error can kill javascript for the entire page. It shouldn't, it can though.
2. Network latency between you and our server
3. Site load, as you theorised
4. A site update in progress. This can really kill the preview.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: A site update in progress. This can really kill the preview.
Is there some way this can be avoided? Perhaps the AJAX needs more A?
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I added extra a. And being in Canada, I've learned all about adding eh.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks, Chris,
As a test I saved a shortcut to CodeProject's home page, closed Chrome Version 27.0.1425.2 dev-m, then re-launched Chrome using that short-cut: then I hit F12: which reports:
Failed to load resource http://b.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js
Failed to load resource http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
Failed to load resource http://ad.doubleclick.net/N6839/adj/lqm.codeproject.site/home_top;kw=pos_top;sz=728x90;tile=1;ord=B6384C43A87C5BEFCCB589903DD9781D?
I do use the huge special HOSTS File, maintained by MVPS.org, to block a web nuisances.
b.scorecardresearch.com is blocked
64 ! sites that are connected to ads.doubleclick.net, and similar, are blocked
3 variations of googleanalytics are blocked
I would guess the first two of those "loads" are done by Chrome itself, independent of CP. And I would not expect, the third one which is CP specific, to have any bearing on CP message preview behavior.
But, I have been test typing, back-spacing, etc., cutting and pasting various lines around, in this message, and, when I observe "odd preview window update issues:" I haven't seen, yet, any JS errors thrown.
yours, Bill
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958.
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I'm sure this is going to make people think I care about points which I don't just concern about something. I see what privileges I have a green check on and I guess I'm misunderstanding when I look at the table. I am thinking I should have the certain rank under each group such as authority, debator, editor etc. before being able to perform the certain action.
The reason I'm asking is I can see the articles/blogs etc awaiting to be approved which I don't think I should have access to since it shows Gold for Author, Authority, editor, Organiser which is the only one I have a high rank but not in the others. Shouldn't the privilege be granted only once I meet the other requirements?
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linuxjr wrote: <layer>I don't think I should have access to since it shows Gold for Author, Authority, editor, Organiser which is the only one I have a high rank but not in the others. Shouldn't the privilege be granted only once I meet the other requirements?
No. For example, you can moderate articles if you've Gold status for Author or Gold status for Authority or Gold status for Editor or Gold status for Organiser.
If you meet at least one of the requirements, then the privilege will be granted.
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em> ProgramFOX
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