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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: this isn't the only such case from this user
That, IMO, is the only time you should post in the Spam and Abuse forum for all to see. It would be helpful to also point out that the user has been abusive at other times.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This is an author who is regularly and repeatedly posting abusive and insulting messages. "Report the message and move on" is not an appropriate response. The messages need to be removed, and the author needs to be banned. If he wants to ask for his account to be reinstated, then he needs to agree to stop posting rude and insulting messages.
Why is it that every time someone reports abusive behaviour, you try to turn it into an argument? 
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: This is an author who is regularly and repeatedly posting abusive and insulting messages.
And how would one know this from Pete's post?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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By looking at the user's other messages?
Pete is one of the most patient and tolerant people on here. If he reports an abusive user, it's unlikely to be a one-off message from someone having a bad day.
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: By looking at the user's other messages?
I see. So each time someone posts that a member is abusive and links to a single comment, that is no longer visible by the way, we are supposed to go on a history finding trip and read all their other comments? If you have the time, more power to you. But if you are going to ask me to flag someone as abusive, support the request. That doesn't seem like too much to ask.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Hi,
I have just tried to bookmark an article written by a member by pressing the 'Bookmark' icon to the right of the article (next to the 'Print' icon). I got no error, but the bookmark does not appear in 'My Bookmarks'.
Kind wishes ~ Patrick
Thank you to anyone taking the time to read my posts.
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Was it article or might it have been a tip?
You might have to change the bookmark page to display tip/trick by pressing the button at the top of the page.
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Ah ha... Thank you, sir. That did indeed do the trick.
(Sorry for the dumb question.)
- Patrick
Thank you to anyone taking the time to read my posts.
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Don't worry. I had that issue once as well. And that question reappears occasionally 
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We need to be able to enter a spam busting mode, where we have checkboxes, so that we can check many messages at once that we need to be able to mark as spam.
At the moment there are 56 messages in the uncategorized forum that takes what feels as ages to mark as spam. 
<edit>posted before reading Rohans message below</edit>
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Send an message like this and one of us admins can delete all the messages from the offending member in one shot.
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Yes, of course we can do that, but I thought one of the points with having protectors is to take the load off you. 
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Done.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Now that's fast.
And I already tested it, there seems to be a problem with updating the page after pressing the reject button. But when going back to the main page the spam is gone.
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Today it works. 
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Does it work in QA ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I don't see it.
Where is it ? Am I allowed to use it as a simple member ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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We had almost 182 spam messages there in Moderation queue. I reported almost 100 post as spam one by one. It would be nice if we can have mark all as spam option there in QA/Message moderation.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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But the problem is that maybe not all of them are spam. I'd like checkboxes though to avoid a roundtrip for every click.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But the problem is that maybe not all of them are spam
Yes it may be the case,but in this case all of them were spam and its very difficult and time consuming to report all of them one by one.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I'd like checkboxes though to avoid a roundtrip for every click
That would also work.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Maybe just automatically delete any pending messages as soon as the member that posted them has been booted?
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Great Idea!
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Unfortunately I'm not willing to risk accidentally marking a user's post as spam.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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... to automatically (and completely) remove the automatically removed messages?
I can see messages in the Lounge that were posted about 2 hours ago and have been removed now, but they are still showing up in the forum.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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