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Absolutely agree. Everything can happen. Undo should be on all operations, ideally.
One time I reported my own post as abuse, accidentally. Then I came to the same idea.
Good that you put it forward.
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SAKryukov wrote: One time I reported my own post as abuse
Well stop being so "abusive"!
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Working at it
--SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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Some little person about 3 inches tall just left (4) one votes on threads on my profile page. They only add up to (-8) on the Richter scale but I thought you guys should know anyhow.
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I to have just had a similar thing happen (6 votes of -2), the plot thickens.
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If you are certain you know the identity of the culprit then you can use the "Report Member" flag on their home page.
The best things in life are not things.
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Unfortunately, I have no clue who did it or I would, as you have said, reported them.
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This keeps happening to me on a semi-regular basis...
...its always from voters with no significant weight to their votes either, so it makes me think people do it maliciously or just to annoy.
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Albert Holguin wrote: so it makes me think people do it maliciously or just to annoy.
I find most things that annoy me to be malicious in nature.
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Why do people care about this?
I don't get the facination with the occasional -2 or even -8 on the Rep Points. Such downvotes are easily swamped by the rest of a members contribution. Overall, even with the occasional downvote the overall ratings are probably about right.
So who cares?
-Richard
Hit any user to continue.
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Not me - I haven't looked at the breakdown since it first appeared. It just isn't important, and the reputation isn't the reason I post here.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: the reputation isn't the reason I post here.
Agree. I really only care that I have enough rep points so that I can contribute to the site as much as possible. Having 200K+ rep points means nothing to me.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It just isn't important, and the reputation isn't the reason I post here.
However, Pete, I do remember you raising quite a stink a while back when you and some others were getting uni-voted a lot.
The reason I brought this up is that the down votes were malicious and had nothing to do with a jerky response or post by me. Don't like what I posted, that's fine by me. Down vote me because you hate me, then that is malicious.
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Slacker007 wrote: However, Pete, I do remember you raising quite a stink a while back when you and
some others were getting uni-voted a lot.
Errm I don't remember that. I do remember posting, several times, about revenge voting which I think is a real problem on the site. I also complain about rampant univoting because it is targetted site vandalism.
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Slacker007 wrote: Don't like what I posted, that's fine by me. Down vote me because you hate me, then that is malicious.
Agree...
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They are not a site bug (some would argue this) and they are not a suggestion (by any stretch of the imagination).
I believe you can go to the spammer's profile page and report them there. You are not going to get any brownie points for reporting them here.
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That's already been discussed here[^].
I doubt you'll stop the reports here and I'm not convinced it should. Making a small post about them here exposes the spammer to a few more people and as such insure that the spammer is removed faster, before he/she can make even more spam threads (they don't get removed so they keep cluttering up the forums).
Besides like I said in the thread I mentioned, these threads usually are only 1 or 2 messages so I don't think they cause that much noise.
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Sorry Tom, I disagree completely.
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That's your right
Would be a boring world if everyone just agreed on everything.
I guess we can agree on disagreeing
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: I guess we can agree on disagreeing
at least on this topic.
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There's a difference, though, between somebody who's an inveterate spammer and a member who has succumbed to the temptation to post a couple of spam messages, but otherwise has been a decent poster. In the first case, deleting the entire account is acceptable, but in the second case, just deleting the spam messages is a better option. The problem with the Report a member option is that it is the nuclear option - it's not a surgical strike.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The problem with the Report a member option is that it is the nuclear option - it's not a surgical strike.
Yes. However, most of the spammer notices here in this forum are requesting the nuclear option and not the drone, killed by friendly fire, option.
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OT:
Hi, Did you notice Pete's icon[^]?
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I sort of agree... I've posted one person here before but only because I wasn't sure whether he was a spammer or not (subtle spam), but overall, should probably be left to the community to sap instead of taking up Chris' time. Maybe if we could agree as a community to post these elsewhere for other members to review (so you still bring attention to the spammer and zap him if needed)?
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I have just been replying "I have reported this member" whenever somebody reports a spammer here. It sets a good example while not devaluing the service others are providing who may not know about the new report feature.
Driven to the ARMs by x86.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: It sets a good example while not devaluing the service others are providing who may not know about the new report feature.
It does set a good example and I do sincerely commend you for it.
It is not my intention to "devalue" anyone's service, if I have, then I greatly apologize. With that said, I don't think the report feature is entirely new and almost every active member here knows about it or has heard about it or will soon know about it.
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