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Thanks for the suggestion, I've already checked them before I posted 
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In your question you asked how to update your settings.
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Thank you for the reply, I was checking if there where some other settings.
I was asking as I had checked them and they are showing that I should be receiving them but I'm not receiving them. So was checking if there was something else in the background.
My orignal post was a bit unclear as it is frustrating as I enjoy the emails.
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We had an issue with our mail senders Friday and today, which have been resolved.
You should be getting today's Newsletters shortly. It may take an hour for everything to catch up.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Thanks for letting me know.
Any idea about the weekly newsletter emails?
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Idea coming due to:
- Spammer accounts 1-10[^]
- Spammer accounts 11 - 23[^]
- and more accounts... 24 - 56[^]
Would it be possible to use the spam filters in the profiles of the users by creation or edition? I know a user can't be set into moderation as a message and I would not limit its functionality in any case, but maybe create a list of "suspicious" accounts that only protectors or staff can check and then report in S&A?
Another possibility could be a kind of special search for people with enough privileges with a "joined today / last 3 days / last week" or whatever time interval that might be not a nightmare with the DB query... but showing a minimalistic list of results. I mean not the usual overview of the profile as in "who is who" but just a table with name, a small thumbs of the profile picture and a flag that indicates "contains a link in the biography" and a link to the real profile so we can check more in detail if needed. That would be faster / easier than using the current methode ("who is who" list, reverse order, scrolling, check, scrolling, check, scrolling, next page please)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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need suggestion of how to delete my email from your list
I tried to use the "unsubscribe" link on the mail I received but it did not delete me
my email is
ken.[DELETED]@gmail.com
if you can delete me...great...!
else...advise...
ken
ken baratko
modified 17-Nov-19 1:47am.
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Site staff can see the email in your profile... publishing it in a public forum is not a good idea. Spam bots are going to be happy with your present
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I edited your email address - never post your email address in any forum, unless you really like spam!
Since you log in with your email, your user id which attaches to each message is enough to identify your address to the staff.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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There's a link at the bottom of each newsletter we send, but I've gone ahead and unsub'd you from all emails.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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For the past 20 minutes, Ive been trying to post a new question but I keep getting a message "Internal error creating a new item". Is there an issue?
I've tried both on chrome and edge
Ger
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Just posted (and imediatelly deleted) a question. Everything looks fine here.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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it looks like we had a short burst of database issues just when you tried to post the question. There were a number of errors just associated with you.
It seems to have corrected itself, but I'm going to investigate anyways.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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When I vote something as spam, it shows me how many votes in total are there. As soon as the page refreshed, that count is gone.
Is there a reason for that?
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My guess would be database load. Counting the votes for all 50 messages on a forum page every time someone loads that page could add a lot of extra work.
There's also the possibility that seeing that a message has been reported already might make some people more inclined to report it themselves, even if they haven't read it. It would be interesting to see what effect, if any, showing the existing reports on pending articles has had.
"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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Bingo
cheers
Chris Maunder
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For most postings without an ongoing discussion should not be necroed weeks, months, or even years after the last contribution: anyone intereseted in the issue probably has moved on, and likely the original question is no longer of interest in the context of modern tools, techniques and hardware capabilites. Would it be possible to lock such threads after X weeks of inactivity?
That could reduce clutter and the number of traps well-meaning devs could be caught in, trying to answer an outdated question...
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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There might still be some genuine answers that really bring more value to that question, and those would get lost.
I mean...
I have seen questions, that got an answered but was not accepted. Then a spammer posted something, we nuked it, a good answer was added with a new (/newer/better) alternative way of solving the issue.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In most cases, if someone is looking for help, any actual help is of little use when posted two weeks late. And for homework it may already be too late two days later. If someone has a good idea on an old question, it's probably better to post that solution as tip/trick and refer to the Q/A question rather than adding a new solution to an old question.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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But how are you going to police that? Most of the people who do this have no interest in writing articles, they just trawl the internet looking for questions that they can answer.
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Not articles, just tips. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
That said, I'm not sure how useful the tip section really is: it's not like you always search the tip section when you have a very specific problem and are looking for a very specific solution. I probably wouldn't ... 
Maybe we should make a survey on how often people actually read the tip section, and how often they deliberately search it for a particular topic.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Stefan_Lang wrote: Not articles, just tips.
Well it's exactly the same issue; how would you get them to do it, even if theyknew that was an option? And many of these "solutions" are only relevant to a single question and probably not valid as tips. Which is why we post Solutions rather than Tips ourselves.
I think the Tip section is as good as the Articles section, full of lots of useful stuff, if you just take the trouble to go there and look - something I have done many times. But, as SWMBO famously said, "why bark if you haven't got a dog?".
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Stefan_Lang wrote: Maybe we should make a survey on how often people actually read the tip section
Usefull has nothing to do with tip or article. It is related to relevance / accuracy of the information.
Stefan_Lang wrote: nd how often they deliberately search it for a particular topic.
I don't search in the sections, I search for a topic in the whole site and have a look to the preview of the results list, going to the concrete items when I think it might have something useful. It doesn't matter if it is an article, a tip, a Q&A or a forum message. Matching / related information is always welcome, no matter in which format.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Stefan_Lang wrote: In most cases, if someone is looking for help, any actual help is of little use when posted two weeks late.
For that person yes, but there are over 14 million registered members + unknown not registered that look for information here. So, yes. What is late for someone, can still be helpful and up-to-date for another one.
Stefan_Lang wrote: And for homework it may already be too late two days later.
If it is clearly homework, and the guy doesn't bother to try, there is less to no chance he will get an answer, it doesn't matter if that day, two days or a month later
Stefan_Lang wrote: If someone has a good idea on an old question, it's probably better to post that solution as tip/trick and refer to the Q/A question rather than adding a new solution to an old question.
Both, yes and no. There are things that are so much specific to an issue, that they are better placed in the Q&A where the situation is described and the context is given for a concrete use case.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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