Spam and Abuse Watch

29-Aug-18 3:50

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Your suggestion goes against the very purpose of the existence of the spam and abuse watch forum.

Then why is there a Report option on the message itself if you'll also have to come here and report it?

And you missed this forum rule:

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If you catch an author plagiarizing, please close the article and report and close the account, unless the author is a very active member who has otherwise behaved themselves

From what I could tell, this member has been a contributing member of the site.

I think it is nuts to ban someone from the site for getting into a heated discussion. I guess I'm just too nice of a guy. Sniff | :^)

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

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Richard Deeming29-Aug-18 3:54

Richard Deeming

29-Aug-18 3:54

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
If you catch an author plagiarizing, please close the article and report and close the account, unless the author is a very active member who has otherwise behaved themselves

You might want to read that rule again. D'Oh! | :doh:

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ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 3:56

29-Aug-18 3:56

You're right, surely it only applies to plagiarizing and can't be extended to other misuses. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Richard Deeming29-Aug-18 4:01

Richard Deeming

29-Aug-18 4:01

It's only mentioned on the plagiarism rule. If you think it should apply to other cases of abuse, then you should start a discussion about that in Bugs & Suggs. Smile | :)

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ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 4:04

29-Aug-18 4:04

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Rajesh R Subramanian29-Aug-18 3:59

29-Aug-18 3:59

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
Your suggestion goes against the very purpose of the existence of the spam and abuse watch forum.
Then why is there a Report option on the message itself if you'll also have to come here and report it?

So, you're basically questioning the existence of this forum. I suppose you'll have to ask Chris about that, but I think it's to report repeat offenders/extreme cases (like the one who just was kicked out), spammers, etc. that may otherwise slip through the system.

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
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If you catch an author plagiarizing, please close the article and report and close the account, unless the author is a very active member who has otherwise behaved themselves

We're not talking about plagiarization, or an article author here.

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
From what I could tell, this member has been a contributing member of the site.

If asking programming questions in the General Indian Topics Forum repeatedly and telling off people who suggested it's not appropriate counts as contributing, then yes. I'm not going to go into the details, but if you've not been participating regularly in the GIT, then you may not have the full context here.

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
I think it is nuts to ban someone from the site for getting into a heated discussion. I guess I'm just too nice of a guy.

I'd probably agree with you if I didn't have the context (as said above), but I still do agree with you that Chris might reinstate the account if the OP asked him politely and was apologetic about their behaviour and past offences.

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 4:03

29-Aug-18 4:03

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
So, you're basically questioning the existence of this forum.

No, not at all.

The problem is I see too many people who think they own CodeProject and come here and try to get people kicked off for doing one little thing wrong. Too many people abuse this forum.

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
We're not talking about plagiarization, or an article author here.

And you don't think the same common sense can be extended to someone who offended you?

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Rajesh R Subramanian29-Aug-18 4:08

29-Aug-18 4:08

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
The problem is I see too many people who think they own CodeProject and come here and try to get people kicked off for doing one little thing wrong. Too many people abuse this forum.

I don't know about all of that - I came here today, and only did so because I was "mentioned" on one of the posts here, which sent me a notification.

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
We're not talking about plagiarization, or an article author here.
And you don't think the same common sense can be extended to someone who offended you?

I'm struggling to see your point here, given that I have little control over what someone else might find as offensive or decide to report. As stated in another post, I basically laughed off the abusive posts because I found it hilarious that the OP had no point to make and resorted to personal attacks.

Thanks787229-Aug-18 8:56

29-Aug-18 8:56

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
I see too many people who think they own CodeProject and come here and try to get people kicked off

Did you ask yourself at least once, why this specific member got reported out of 13,677,764 members?

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
Too many people abuse this forum

Can you please show me at least 5 such members? I'd be more than happy to make efforts to prevent it (probably by discussing with Admins).

If it would have been a heated discussion, i might have reported the message and moved on. If "clearly" calling someone M** F** and justifying it till the end is what you call an acceptable behavior (report message and move on), i don't think there is any point in stretching this thread.

Try to find out fool in a deal. If you can't find one, it's you.

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 9:02

29-Aug-18 9:02

Thanks7872 wrote:
Can you please show me at least 5 such members?

All you have to do is hang out in SPAM and ABUSE for a while.

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 3:51

29-Aug-18 3:51

The user's account has been closed. At least you got what you wanted. D'Oh! | :doh:

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Rajesh R Subramanian29-Aug-18 4:04

29-Aug-18 4:04

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
The user's account has been closed. At least you got what you wanted.

A bit strange to claim something on those lines, given that I never even complained about it (not even to the OP who was abusive) and basically laughed it off.

Other users of the forum (I see more than one) found it so offensive that they came here and reported it. I also believe that a significant number of votes will be needed to get someone's account terminated, and so those many people had had enough of the OP. This hardly counts as me getting "what I wanted".

I'd want a yacht, sailing on smooth turquoise seas. With nymphos. In a soapy Jacuzzi. That would be a lot closer to what I "want".

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 4:08

29-Aug-18 4:08

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
given that I never even complained about it (

Good point. I lost who I was communicating with. My mistake.

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Other users of the forum (I see more than one) found it so offensive

Nope. They are looking for points. They get 10 points (I think) for reporting a member. It happens all the time. People come in and see a member reported, they then report the member without even doing their own research to verify validity.

The Spam and ABUSE forum is ironically named. Big Grin | :-D

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Rajesh R Subramanian29-Aug-18 4:10

29-Aug-18 4:10

Fair enough, then. Whom should I talk to about the yacht? The man still has his needs, ya know? Smile | :)

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 4:13

29-Aug-18 4:13

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Whom should I talk to about the yacht?

ebay?

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Thanks787229-Aug-18 9:00

29-Aug-18 9:00

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
~~you got what you wanted~~ He got what he deserved

FTFY.

Being abusive is not nice. It's that simple.

Try to find out fool in a deal. If you can't find one, it's you.

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 9:07

29-Aug-18 9:07

Thanks7872 wrote:
Being abusive is not nice. It's that simple.

Agreed. But asking a community to gang up on someone and kick them out because they hurt your feelings is also abuse. Just saying. Sniff | :^)

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Thanks787229-Aug-18 9:09

29-Aug-18 9:09

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
asking a community to gang up on someone......

Since when reporting something abusive here became "gang up on someone"? D'Oh! | :doh:

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
because they hurt your feelings

Not at all. It didn't.

Try to find out fool in a deal. If you can't find one, it's you.

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 9:16

29-Aug-18 9:16

Thanks7872 wrote:
Since when reporting something abusive here

Because all you had to do was mark that one message as abusive. Instead, you came to a forum meant for ending people's CP careers. I think you know what you were doing.

Thanks7872 wrote:
Not at all. It didn't.

Then report the message and move on, like I already said.

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.

Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Thanks787229-Aug-18 9:25

29-Aug-18 9:25

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
Instead, you came to a forum meant for ending people's CP careers

People's CP careers end also because they post tens of thousands of ads, post plagiarized articles. Should we also start reporting the content only and move on? CP Career ends for those who forget that this is public platform and not their personal playground. Looks like you're getting emotional here..!!!

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
I think you know what you were doing.

Of course i did.

Try to find out fool in a deal. If you can't find one, it's you.

ZurdoDev29-Aug-18 9:36