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It's going to be about this little CP desktop gizmo.
Click for a picture of the developing UI[^]
Basically, this thing monitors CP's RSS feeds and user stats and displays them in this popup.
In light of the recent CP spam wave it's also going to include a Bayesian Spam Filter[^] with which it will check the forums you are monitoring for spam. It will also parse the latest posts in CP's Spam and Abuse forum for suspects.
When spam is detected, a sample of it will be displayed to the user for human review.
If you click "Yes, This is Spam" it will automatically search out all that spammer's messages, report them using your account, and then report the spammer himself!
If you guys have any suggestions I'd like to hear them. 
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CarefulCoder wrote: search out all that spammer's messages, report them using your account, and then report the spammer himself
I do that by clicking on the spammer's id.
This space intentionally left blank.
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That's what I do as well. 
However it's a pain to open up each spam message manually to report it - hence why this thing will do that automatically.
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I look forward to seeing the full article. Spam sucks.
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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If you click "Yes, This is Spam" it will automatically search out all that spammer's messages, report them using your account, and then report the spammer himself
I suggest you do not implement a feature like this. I am afraid it will be used by the "bad spirit of a headless evil" [^] to make false reports.
Bob does not own a red shirt. imho, you should ask CodeProject's staff for their "blessing" before you let this robot out of its cage, and off-load members' responsibility to judiciously use weapons-of-war during riots.
“The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet
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BillWoodruff wrote: bad spirit of a headless evil
We are not in any of the villages mentioned but there are a lot of red shirts hung in our village (BanLaBerg, BanDan, Buriram) also so it has spread further than where was mentioned in the article.
Every now and again all the dogs in the village start howling for no apparent rason. Not just a few but all the dogs. It is unusual as they usually bark when people walk around. The locals say that when they howl it is because ghosts are in the village.
I do have to admit that a lot of howling dogs does sound spooky.
I just rely on the two spirit houses (Katum Ta) we have set up in the front yard. They are a place for spirits to rest on their journeys. One is for the spirits of our family and the other is for any passing spirit who needs a place to stay. So far they have worked. 
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JimmyRopes wrote: The locals say that when they howl it is because ghosts are in the village.
My wife is Mexican and she says the same thing. Our new neighbor has two dogs that start howling almost every night. 
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 a lot of societies that maintain ties to the past believe in ghosts. As I said we have two spirit houses in our front yard and so does everyone else in the village. Maybe not two but at least one on every property.
My wife puts out offerings and burns incense in front of them on all Buddha days.
They are also spread out in the fields and grouped along the sides of roads where there have been fatal accidents. I am thinking about doing a photo essay of Thailand featuring them. Some are quite elaborate.
I have a dog that howls a lot. He has been doing this since he was a puppy. My sister-in-law says it is because he is visited by ghosts.
I don't usually pay attention when he howls but when all the dogs in the village howl late at night it is really eerie.
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CarefulCoder wrote: it will automatically search out all that spammer's messages, report them using your account,
Not so sure that is a good idea - what if he has a dozen non-spam messages, and one spam one? I'm pretty sure the Chris will be well annoyed if your system spam reports non-spam messages, because it will confuse his anti spam systems.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Very good point; I'll tone back the automation. Thanks for the feedback!
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Let the good people of metropolis deem that which is spam and report accordingly.
We have enough righteous folks who report as spam or abuse anything that does not conform to their limited world view.  We don't need to automate the process.
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Too much automation - IMHO...
Not sure all messages should be removed - marking non-spam messages as spam will index it's content as spam an may cause of wrong behavior of CP's spam filter...
You may split it
1. Report the current message as spam.
2. Show all other messages for human-review too
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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After reading the posts above I'm thinking I'll move along a path like this instead.
I agree, automatically reporting all the other member's posts as spam, even if they were checked by the computer first, could cause more problems than benefits.
Thanks for the feedback guys!
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I agree that the automation may tend to piss off CM if you get it wrong. How about if you can inspect the content of the post, decide if it is spam and flag everything by the op with the same content. The latest crop have just been copy paste of the same content!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It runs very slowly with delays on arrow keys and typing.
In order to work at the same speed as earlier versions one has to TURN OFF the hardware acceleration checkbox!
WTF?
If they know about this why not have it turned off by default?
C'mon MS, get it sorted!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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could be you just need to update your drivers.
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Same thing in Visual Studio 2010 (I don't know about VS2012/13).
[EDIT]
I guess it's not exactly the same. I cannot find the link right now, but somewhere I read that in Visual Studio it's not only visual stuff that gets offloaded to the GPU.
Visual Studio 2010 WAS painfully slow[^]
Other Clickety[^]
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Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
modified 22-Feb-14 23:23pm.
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It's cuz everything you type gets echoed to a keylogger at the NSA so they can monitor you in real time.
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The Disable Hardware Acceleration checkbox was checked by default on my system!
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It also contains an Alcohol meter - it checks your blood alcohol level via a reader in your keytops, and tries to work out what your drunken typing was originally supposed to be. Understandably, this takes considerable processor resources... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It may surprise you to know that not one drop of alcohol has passed my lips since NYE!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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"Surprise" isn't the word I would use...
In the queue for a liver transplant? Or just giving up drinking? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Dalek Dave wrote: It may surprise you to know that not one drop of alcohol has passed my lips since NYE because enema is more economical.
FTFY 
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Unfortunately, candidates aren’t judged on how well they do their jobs; they’re judged on how well they describe how they do their jobs.
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Rarely these days do I ever get a support call where a customer has attempted to find the answer to their question or problem before calling. It seems that the spirit of discovery and 'figuring things out on one's own are a thing of the past. As programmers, we are supposed to alert users when something goes wrong, ideally in terms they can understand, and with some guidance on how to resolve the problem. We often take great pains to create effective alerts/prompts/messages/documentation for end users so they can resolve their own issues and not have to call the support line. The best documentation in the world is worthless if users don't read it, and that seems to be the case more and more these days. Once customers (or family members) have clicked the 'Easy' button (remote desktop) and been able to sit back and relax while I take over their systems, they seem to become hooked. It quickly becomes the first impulse when they have questions or don't understand something. While I try to use the situation to educate/train them/me, some users call with the same issues/requests repeatedly.
It makes me wonder which statements may be true.
a) People are becoming dumber. They really don't know how to find their own answers. Remember F1, you might, but most don't.
b) People are becoming apathetic. They really don't care if other help options are available. They have your number, and they know you have the answer. Besides, they have paid a support contract and support means training right?
c) People are becoming lazy. They see the Help buttons in your program, and know you have online resources, but can't be bothered with having to read a document! 
d) People are becoming smarter. Feign a) and you can get someone to do your thinking for you.
My brother in-law has asked for some time this weekend to help figure out why his 3 year old laptop is 'so slow' and shows 'not responding' all the time. Sounds like a job for 'CleanMyPC.com'! This is the guy who was unhappy when he couldn't figure out how to set his email font to comic sans.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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