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DaveAuld suggested I bring this bit of public humiliation and self-flagellation over here.
I have managed to open two accounts (two different email addresses). I want to keep the second one I opened, killing the first. Then I want to change the email address and user name (at least the displayed name) to what was on the old one.
1. How do I kill the old account?
2. How long before I can use the email and display name from the old account on the new one?
cat fud heer
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Which one you want to kill?
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To the Team! Thanks! Much appreciated!
cat fud heer
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The dropdown menus are confusing for some of the tabs..
for instance; quick answers dropdown menu makes you think that you've already hovering over "Ask a Question" - I think it's because the tab background colours for hover are the same as this link background colour..
Not a big deal but thought I would post it in-case someone wanted some UX feedback
I'm new to the site - loving it so far 
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Following the spam hunts that are ongoing on the Spam and Abuse section I came to the conclusion that 10 reports are way too many to allow proper spammer deletion. It happens often in facts that spammer reported on the Spam and Abuse section remain even after days since the report, until the post is pushed down to the other pages to be forgotten forever - and the spammer accounts are still there.
My idea is to lower the reports needed with a reputation criterion. This ensures that one-shot accounts may be removed easily, while keeping safe from abuse active members of the community. The "right" number should be 3-5 reports, to allow fast deletion of the spammers.
These are my 2 cents.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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We made it 10 reports because we'd prefer to err on the side of safety. Legitimate accounts were being nuked by malicious members.
The better option is to keep on reporting messages as spam. Our system learns in real time and can then nuke the spam as it happens automatically. It relies on you reporting the spam messages though.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How about expiring spam reports? So a report stays alive for say 1 week. That way legitimate users won't get kicked because they got 10 reports (wrongly) over 3 years.
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Perhaps it should take into account the rep points for both the reporter and the reportee. A high-rep account should take more votes to kill than a one-shot spammer.
Unless it's Nagy, in which case one vote should be enough. 
"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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You worded my thought way better than me 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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High-rep account or account with "protector" badge.
I think there is no "golden mean". The World is full of rage. I saw it many times...
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- High-rep accounts should be harder to kill than newly-created one-shot spam accounts - see Nagy's recent kicking;
- Spam votes from high-rep accounts should probably be weighted more heavily than votes from low-rep accounts;
- Spam votes from protectors should be given the highest weighting;
- Abuse votes can probably carry on as they are for now.
"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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Which changes its status and counts as an edit, I believe. Pretty sure this was intentional. IIRC.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I am not getting notification when someone replies to a post. I checked my setting and the checkbox is checked, so I resaved today.
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I have forum layout "Normal" specified, but when I click on a search result, I see the Open All version, and not the Normal version.
Can the view after searching please be the same as your default?
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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I was doing a search for spammy terms to look whether there would be old spam around, and I saw that some search results contained a link to a spam message that already has been removed, which shouldn't be in the list anymore.
Can these messages please be hidden from search results?
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Hi Team
I would like to request that article owners with sufficient reputation/points be allowed to pin posts to the top of the discussion forums associated with their articles.
This would allow me (in this instant) to prevent important threads falling off the first (latest) page of posts.
Then when I am sure that a certain thread has died naturally, I can unpin it whereafter it can either stay at top but now be subject to dropping down the order or it can be relocated to its correct chronological position.
Many thx.
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Great idea.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Agree! Agree!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Please can you create a means for one to quickly locate post in the C/C++/MFC forum like the "Mine" link for Quick answers.
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We can't even ask questions, never mind engage. I can understand the US only for answerers, for now, but you have a healthy list of countries that may ask, with one glaring omission. Did we do something wrong?
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Helpouts on partner sites is currently available for anyone in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, Philippines, and Japan who needs help; however, to become a provider and give help, you must be in the U.S. I wouldn't consider that a "healthy list of countries" yet, not even the UK is included yet 
It seems like they are trying to bring it to other countries but have some legal issues etc. to cover first[^]
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