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I had to recommend them to Griffin. Prior to that he had to blame it on the sheep.
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Still do...
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Congratulations to all...
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I think an honorary MVP must be given to wife/partner of all the MVPs.
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Just got a link above 'X items need approval' to confirm that a spam message IS spam?
Why I got that? It's now for everyone?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm seeing it now too - the links aren't working properly yet ...
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It means the spam filter is working at long last! Yay!
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Look, this board is for software developers, who know that everything takes ten to fifteen times longer than originally planned.
It's obviously part of the preparations for next Xmas.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And I thought to myself,
"These are pseudo science: nobody with any form of rational thought believes in it."
"So...why not have a 'Developer Capcha' on QA posts?"
We could make everyone who wants to post a question solve a small (two lines, maybe) C# (or even - gawd forbid - VB) coding problem, or fix a syntax error before they can post!
That'd keep 'em out!
Then I realised why it wouldn't work: most of the QA question posters would fail...and quite a few of the answerers as well...
Ho, hum. Back to the drawing board...
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OriginalGriff wrote: solve a small (two lines, maybe) C# (or even - gawd forbid - VB) coding problem And they will report you for 'black magic'!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: We could make everyone who wants to post a question solve a small (two lines, maybe) C# (or even - gawd forbid - VB) coding problem, or fix a syntax error before they can post!
When reading this I visualised mentally a poor guy that has to solve a problem similar to the question he wants to ask
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That's just cruel...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Good idea though!
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It will drop QA traffic near zero...There will be time to handle all the 'black magic'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You think the spammers are brighter and more technically literate than most QA posters?
Could be, when I come to think about it...
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Yeah, I am afraid they would be able to Google themselves to an answer. Besides, they deal in magic, so...
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I cannot solve capcha; plz send codz, urgent.
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Yes - but they'll have to post that on SO...:EvilLaughSmiley:
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I cannot solve capcha; plz send codz, urgent.
In that case, then they will fill the CP emails with help requests, using the same message as quoted.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Then I realised why it wouldn't work: most of the QA question posters would fail...and quite a few of the answerers as well How about a check-box with the question: "Can you levitate ?" We could have a weekly vote on which value of the CheckState would ban the logger-head in order to confuse hackers who write spam-bots.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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Or one of those "1+1+1+1*0" things that 99% of the people on social media gets wrong.
If a programmer gets it wrong, they are beyond help.
modified 4-Jan-15 10:15am.
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Do you think we should tell them there are bots that can get that right?
Sometimes I think you should have to pass a captcha in order to breed...
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I think you've just solved the overpopulation problem.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "These are pseudo science: nobody with any form of rational thought believes in it."
I consider myself a rational person and have no problems believing in black magic (or white) or astrology. You may think that's really weird, but it doesn't cause any conflict for me. Now, mind you, I try to be discerning -- there's a lot of new age noise out there that sadly has risen to the level of a shriek in the last 20 years.
Anyways, I just thought I'd speak up here, as a person of "rational thought."
Marc
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