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The Kaiser Söze[^] button scares me. It would take too much work to ensure we had safety triggers, or at the least, a "oh crap, I need to Undo" button.
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Chris Maunder
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I know what you mean Chris, but we need something.
With only 3 or 4 of then working together, they were posting faster than we could delete questions! 
You'd check a users questions count, delete a dozen, and check again to find the number had gone up from 200 to 210! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Consider to block too frequent post of answers (and maybe comments to). By nature an answer takes time to write (and even more to understand a question to the point when an answer can be give), so one who posts answers in too high frequency, probably a spammer )like the on posted over 100 answers within less then 20 minutes)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I think SA can do that frequency too 
Spammers are using multiple accounts. block one and they create a new one. Frequency caps don't work, unfortunately.
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Chris Maunder
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Just a thought...And an other one - is it possible that the last wave of spamming used the new API to do it quicker?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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No - the API's readonly for now
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Chris Maunder
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Please do something...
1. Give more power to Protectors to temporarily lock the account for some predefined hours as a penalty.
OR
2. Ban the uses after 3 to 4 spam requests to post contents.
Or any other. But we have to have something. Now opening up one by one and reporting as well as deleting is a very tedious task.
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It seems Protection can't protect the site
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It protects. But in weekends, when people are less active, it happens.
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Yes, I agree totally, #1 sounds to can be effective
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yeah, man... 
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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: Give more power to Protectors to temporarily lock the account
... and rename them "Punishers", with an icon of Bob showing muscles and a six-pack.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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That would be really cool.  
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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: Give more power to Protectors to temporarily lock the account for some predefined hours as a penalty
Spammers use new accounts each time they spam. Blocking accounts doesn't work unfortunately.
Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: 2. Ban the uses after 3 to 4 spam requests to post contents.
By the time the spammer has posted their comments, and we've actually spotted and reacted to them, they are gone.
Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: Now opening up one by one and reporting as well as deleting is a very tedious task
It is. If it were really easy then I'd have members with pitchworks and torches ready to burn down the place because of people abusing the reporting system.
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Chris Maunder
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You are all correct. But the frequency of reporting and closing the spammers' account is low in weekends. For that reason, I asked all those. I am sorry, I would mentioned this in my previous post.
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One of the spammers managed to style a comment so some of the buttons were obscured. I believe I was able to delete the comment, but you should probably take a look. [^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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the subject is the message.
And I suggest put this f***ing Report flag into the top of a question.
And make a single "button" to Report question and the questioner with one click.
Thank you
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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They can't.
IP range blocking (or even IP address blocking) is fraught with problems: most of the employees of a company will share a small set of IP addresses - so banning those will ban all innocent employees as well.
How would you like it if you couldn't access it because some other person in your building had started advertising his home-brewed website? Especially as you would have no idea who, or what he was advertising?
And remember, changing your IP is trivial: reset the router will do that if you are on a cheaper, dynamic IP address ISP. And most of the spammers will be.
So all you get is annoyed people and spammers that are slightly inconvenienced.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wiki does make use of it.
And I'm aware about the consequences, that it can also hit me if a troll comes from my area. But yesterday it would not have make a difference to be blocked or to see only rubbish in Q/A
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Unfortunately the spammers aren't a single person nor a single IP range. They are all over the place. blocking an IP or even a range (and how do you guess that range?) simply doesn't work.
Bruno Sprecher wrote: And I suggest put this f***ing Report flag into the top of a question.
You mean move the flag position?
Bruno Sprecher wrote: And make a single "button" to Report question and the questioner with one click
We had this and it was mis-used. Members (even top rep members) reported others and closed other top members' accounts.
Yes, the current system is a little inconvenient when we get a spam storm, but that inconvenience, during the other 99% of the time when there isn't a spam storm, saves a lot of anger.
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Chris Maunder
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Yes mean flag Position.
Thank you for your Explanation. Kind regards, Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I accidentally reported twice a question as "off topic" and realized that I got two times 5 points for "same" message.
Of course, I then tried again and yes I have received a third time 5 points ...
Something seems to be amiss;)
Take these 15 points from my reputation, it was only a test.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Sorry for this comment being off-topic, but please do not modify the spam posts in QA. Just report them as spam.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ok I will follow to your instruction. Any explanation why to do so?
Regards, Bruno
N.B: Is there any reason why CP can not block abusive IP ranges in the same way like wiki do it. Only a question....
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Thank you.
Modifying the post messes up the CodeProject spam filter when someone reports it as spam after you have modified it. Chris told us not to modify the spam posts[^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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