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And what's to stop the spammers from creating new email addresses? The database would pretty quickly become bloated with randomly generated single-use addresses.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hi,
can you please reactive my account ? So that I can add articles. My old account is : tarazansafak@gmail.com you may send me an email to verify.
thanks
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Have a look at the Article Writing forum: http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1641/Article-Writing.aspx[^] and the whole of the first page and most of the second is "Message automatically removed" after a astrology spam cleanup.
Perhaps a permission extension to allow Protectors to delete automatically removed message threads? We are here more than you, after all...
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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OriginalGriff wrote: astrology spam cleanup.
You should have seen that coming.
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Similar problem on the .NET Framework forum[^] now.
I don't know what they're trying to achieve. Even if we were all idiots who were likely to fall for these spam messages, surely flooding the forum with them would tip us off that there was something dodgy going on?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nobody told me there was a minimum IQ limit for spammers. 
Obviously, there is a maximum IQ limit for astrologers. And it's similar to shoe sizes...
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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OriginalGriff wrote: And it's similar to shoe sizes...
And that's UK shoe sizes, not European.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Spammy SEO was all about boosting the page rank of a site by generating a flood of links to it. Google changed its algorithms last fall to severely penalize doing so but not all the bottom feeders have figured it out yet.
http://www.theawl.com/2013/12/the-new-spammer-panic[^]
Quote: "The average drop was from page one to page five in Google," he said. In some cases they even dropped as low as page ten. How often do you find yourself on the fifth—much less the tenth—page of Google results? If you've gotten that far, you're better off just refining or revising your search terms.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The Article Writing forum contains a lot of spam and "Message Automatically Removed" messages. Is there an admin who can remove them all?
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Yessir. Done.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I posted this response to a question on the C# language forum: [^] 14 hours and 50 minutes ago; at that time this response by Richard Deeming: [^], posted 15 hours and 57 minutes ago, was not visible.
And, yes, I do refresh CP pages before I respond to a question to try and avoid giving responses that may look like "me-too's," and, being a slacker, I certainly want to avoid posting when I think the query is fully answered/responded to !
What really puzzles me is that some parts of CP seem to be updated instantly. But QA, Language Forums, and Lounge, are often showing delays of up to 2+ hours in content updating.
Could it be that the Hamsters on the Thailand QA and Language Forum server are looking at pictures of tropical beaches on Koh Phangan with bare-breasted Scandinavian female tourists sunbathing, and ... uhhh ... slacking ? 
thanks, Bill
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
modified 11-Feb-14 3:49am.
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+1 I got this[^] on today too
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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I think I found the issue. There was a caching issue that wouldn't update the #messages in Thread View. Should be Ok after next deploy.
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sometimes the thread discussion needs the employment of an emoticon that is not present. So one suggested emoticon is
:throwup: - an animated icon showing a sickly-green face throwing up --- for use when you are just disgusted with what someone has just posted or the way the thread is going ---
any others?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: an animated icon showing a sickly-green face throwing up
kind of like??  
or maybe
you want something inspirational??
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Or like this[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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This article[^] does seem to scratch the border of spam, even though no direct contact possibilites are listed (being the cause why I don't post this in the spam watch).
Whatever, the article seems rather to be a Reference, and definately not an article.
Any volunteer willing to fix it?
Edit: Forget the striked out parts.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
modified 10-Feb-14 7:33am.
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Did you read the Editorial Note on top of the article?
It is in the Third Party Products and Tools section.
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But still not an article.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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You are right. And I don't get it why it is in the 3rd party section.
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So the point you've made is particularly useless?
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Finally: Yes.
In the 3rd party section there are no tips. So the articles may be shorter there. Therefore, I answered you. But after reading the complete article I had to change my mind on the article type.
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It seems more like an incomplete blog entry. I did my dance of the dead and it is gone now.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I didn't ask for a killing strike, I asked for a re-classification!
Whatever, I am sure you know what's appropriate.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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I just thought that it should be interesting to show some statistics on QA home page, like
1. Number of active questions
2. Number of answered question
2.1 Number of accepted answers
3. Number of unanswered questions
4. Average time a question answered
5. Average time between answer and acceptance
...and may more...
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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