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First, I don't even want a reply from management on this one, just think about it before you rule it out, that is all I ask.
I think it might be a good idea to eventually give the members here an option to change the default color theme for their view of the site...like Gmail. We all know color affects us psychologically, and well, orange and green aren't exactly mood elevating colors...I know the orange/green is traditional and change can be a hard thing to embrace sometimes.
An example to prove my point is this, your buttons on the site no longer look like they are from the beginning days of website development.
...Bob can still remain green and emotionless. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Interesting idea. They could even have a Themes competition.
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Oh man. I've sunk to the lowest of the low. I'm now "management".
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The Management[^]
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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No, no - the true lowest on the tree is Real Estate: they don't even get a double helix... 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Received this email last night, although can clearly use the forums still;
Quote: Do not hit "reply" to this email
Hi ChrisElston,
Your account at %SITE_NAME% has been reported as The member is being abusive or is a troll 1 time and is now deactivated.
%SITE_NAME%
%SITE_URL%
Note: This message has been sent from an unattended email box.
Now quite apart from this being a seemingly draconian response for a single use of the word penis (I am not, generally, a big penis user, much to my own regret, although it does seem to be popping up quite regularly in the last day), something would appear to be not quite right.
Either the email should not be sent or I have not being correctly banned.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I don't think this is legit. Somebody else posted having received an email like this recently and it had come from an Australian domain. Take a look at the sender information - that should tell you what you need to know.
This[^] was the thread.
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Looks ligit enough to me.
The headers suggest it is coming from the same place as the normal notification emails, the bits following the @ of the address it is from is the same, the servers are the same.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Yes - they are using the normal private email path - an abuse of the site?
Peter Wasser
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The fact that it's leaving placeholder text like %SITE_NAME% makes it look dodgy to me. Well, that and the fact that you are obviously still active, which would not be as suggested by the email.
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It's either dodgy or wrong.
Either way I thought it worth raising over here.
If no-one cares then get rid of the post by all means.
It matters to me not one jot, I can still post, if I could not then I might do some work instead.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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ChrisElston wrote: If no-one cares then get rid of the post by all means.
I should hope that CP staff do care. It seems as that somebody is impersonating them here, and I'd guess they'd want to know that.
Plus, if others get the same message, at least the team can investigate it.
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As much as I'd love to point the finger somewhere else, this was my fault in 2 ways.
1. I hit "Vote as Abuse" instead of voting you a 1. When a message gets reported for abuse, the poster of that message gets reported too. As an admin I don't have to wait for 4 others to vote a member as abusive before their account is closed - a single hit will do it. Because of this, my slip of the mouse nuked your account, which I then quickly restored. The points you lost will be recovered in the next few days as part of the rep recalculation we're running.
2. Our email template was busted. We fixed it. We tested it. We deployed it. For some reason it's still busted and so I've asked Elina to fix this first thing this morning. [Edit: fixed]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is that what happened to me as well?
Peter Wasser
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Not sure, though possible it came from another admin whom I haven't spoken too yet. My understanding was that you received the email from someone else though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I knew they'd be a sensible explanation somewhere.
Can you nuke yourself?
An admin on a MB I used to frequent managed to do that to himself a couple of years ago. Then he realised that he could only contact the other admins through the MB and didn't know any of their private details.
Took him the best part of a week to get back on again.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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ChrisElston wrote: Can you nuke yourself?
I'm not sure. Let's see what this butto...[User account removed]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: When a message gets reported for abuse, the poster of that message gets
reported too. As an admin I don't have to wait for 4 others to vote a member as
abusive before their account is closed - a single hit will do it.
Why would voting his message as abuse close his account? I mean, it should only auto-remove that message, right? An admin's single abuse-vote is the same as 5 abuse votes from regular members, but 5 abuse votes from regular members only removes the message and not the account. So that seems to be a bug there to me (or a design flaw). Unless you mean you voted on his profile but that doesn't make sense eitehr since you said you meant to vote a 1 on his message. 
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Shhh! ...don't make chris downvote you too for saying his design may be flawed!
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Why would voting his message as abuse close his account
Because:
I wrote: When a message gets reported for abuse, the poster of that message gets reported too. As an admin I don't have to wait for 4 others to vote a member as abusive before their account is closed - a single hit will do it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When a message gets reported for abuse, the poster of
that message gets reported too.
Wow, that's a little harsh. So someone makes one post where he offended someone (how hard is it to do that these days), and 5 members mark that post as abuse, and boom - he gets his profile closed? I know it's easily reversed by an admin, but it will annoy the heck out of people - I know I'll be pissed off if it happened to me.
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You may want to chat to those in the Spam and Abuse forum who spend an awful lot of time hunting down spammers and then doubling back and hunting down the accounts of the spammers. This way we get them in one go.
Of the 18 messages nuked this year, all were spammers. If the issue of fairness becomes a problem we can easily retune later.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I agree.
I do not feel that what I have read in this thread has cleared up the issues I raised in my original post in The Lounge although it is about exactly the same matter.
At that time I thought that I may have been the victim of a miscreant. This was because my account did not seem to be deactivated and I found that private replies to messages were possible. The email message text was also a bit primitive - like phishing.
It now seems the whole thing is by design.
My account WAS deactivated and then quickly reactivated???
Fine.
If it had not been reactivated then what?
IMHO removing the message if it was offensive should have sufficed.
Just my 2 bobs worth.
BTW - Can admins nuke each other?
Peter Wasser
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