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For the last week, a large portion of the pages on CodeProject trigger a warning of my virus checker about a Windows trojan. I sent an email about this to the webmaster, without receiving any reply.
I think this is completely unacceptable - even if this is, as I assume, caused by third-party ads. Assuming this isn't just me, this website has, for the last week or so, probably been harming development more than helping it.
Update: By now, I did receive a reply from the webmaster and we looked into it further. The problem is not with the website itself , but does occur when I click a link from a CodeProject newsletter to an article on the website. More research needed.
modified 17-Dec-15 6:20am.
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First, thanks for reporting it here. I've been off for a week (and announced this publicly) so I'm just catching up on emails.
In order to do anything about this I'll need to know
- which virus checker you're using
- what trojan it's reporting
- Which ads are on the page when the warning happens.
If you can email me that at chris at codeproject.com I can get Yuriy to dig in and see what's happening.
We're using Google's DART system for trafficking ads (the industry standard) and post ads as image files, third party script or sometimes Google's own AdX ads. Third party ads are typically from large advertising agencies that are also used across thousands of other sites and networks.
I assume you've also run a complete scan on your system to ensure you have nothing infecting your system (eg rogue browser extensions)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I got a CP email for a survey (looked all genuine to me), but both links to the survey provide a blank page.
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Can you please forward the email to me at chris at codeproject.com?
Update: the link you sent me works, but it's slow due to a 5 second delay we're seeing that we're looking into. (Long answer: we use our Developer Media email system to send out these invitations, and it wrapped the direct link in a Developer Media redirect even though we said "please don't" so we're looking into our Developer Media code and will have some stern words with it)
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 14-Dec-15 12:53pm.
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Wrong Forum
Spam
Abusive
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I give a vote for "Wrong Forum" suggestion, because it would help many people who post in a wrong forum, by mistake!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Would work if you had a drop-down allowing the reporter to suggest which forum it should be in, then after so many selections for a particular forum it gets moved there.
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I've added "Inappropriate"
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hello,
Please give a kick to crawler, because following not consumed for last 5 working days.
http://www.webdevelopmenthelp.net/feed/
Thanks
Imran
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imho, another case where someone (like moi) could have posted a comment asking the OP to revise their post to include a summary statement of what the problem is; could have asked the OP to read the forum guildlines, etc.: [^].
The OP I mention here has only two prior posts on CP (in October), both being appreciative comments on article entries.
Once again, I assert that newcomers to the site, particularly on their first QA post, be given a bit of "slack."
thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 10-Dec-15 3:30am.
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BillWoodruff wrote: ...by two people
No post can be closed by two reports on QA. There were three members even in this case.
(Joke Icon)BTW,I've stopped reporting questions in QA since our last discussion! So i'm not involved in this case 
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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Quote: BTW,I've stopped reporting questions in QA since our last discussion! So i'm not involved in this case
Ohhh really, I was thinking that its your favorite thing on CP to report..., but if you changed your mind now on words then its good for other members who are new or having less points
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I think I flagged the question as "unclear or incomplete", but I never imagined it would be closed.
I'll be careful from now, I think I'll stop reporting non-questions and unclear/incomplete ones, since actually OP is not alarmed that his question has been flagged, and the question is closed right away.
I never finish anyth
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BillWoodruff wrote: ... newcomers to the site ...
Who have been here 4 years and 10 months. 
Do we know for certain that this is the user's first QA question? There could have been many others closed as "unclear" in the past, which wouldn't show up in the list.
Do we know for certain that nobody posted a comment to the question? Once a question is closed, there's no way to see any comments or answers that were posted.
The timing looks a bit odd - the question says "posted 6 hours and 5 minutes ago; edited 4 hours ago", which suggests it was alive for over two hours; but the revision history[^] suggests it was closed less than an hour after it was posted (2:08 to 3:01). Maybe there's a bug in the relative date formatting?
"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: Do we know for certain that nobody posted a comment to the question?
While it's very possible I did make a comment requesting the OP to summarize what his code was doing, and state his goal clearly ... I am not sure 100% right now if I did ... a little QA burn-out here 
Re: the OP here on the site 4 years, and no questions asked, etc. Yes, things are a bit murky here, but I don't think "assuming the worst" because someone has been a "lurker" here for some period of time is a reasonable conclusion. The fact the OP posted two messages on articles conveying praise suggests, and the absence of any evidence of "socially negative" behavior: well, for me, in addition to not wanting to "judge" other people, I will "assume the best" in such situations.
And, in this case, the code posted by the OP was "substantial" compared to the so often cryptic messes shown un-formatted by homework-shirkers: and, the OP did format the code in a revision, probably in response to a comment that is now un-viewable.
So, even if this is an "edge case," isn't it the case that a significant part of the "ethos," the culture, of CodeProject that makes it such a unique community, is tolerance, and, willingness to help people ? imho, what better way to demonstrate those qualities than doing what we can to make sure those using the site for the first time, or using the site in "new ways," are not needlessly alienated by being "too fast on the trigger" to delete their content ?
Or, as physicians once often said, primo non nocere, "first, do no harm."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I don't think it is unreasonable that people learn to post appropriate questions. Having the question closed might prompt the person to read the rules, maybe look at questions that have been answered, and learn to post a better-quality question? There is a balance between helping newbs and having a site that is 90% poor quality questions that illicit no real response.
If you were a car mechanic and every day you have a hundred phone calls; "There is a warning light on my dash and the car doesn't work, what's the problem?" what would you do? Stop answering the phone probably.
I'm on the fence really, if the question is largely well-asked but missing some salient details then I don't mind them being prompted for more, but if the question is just a poorly worded subject and the body is just a code dump then I have no problem with the question just being closed. Likewise if the question indicates the user is entirely out of their depth and looking for people to do their work for them, again I have no issues with those "non questions" being closed. Culture is formed largely through moderation, and if you allow hoards of poor-quality questions then that's the culture you get.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Culture is formed largely through moderation
Excellent point.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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This post really mis-represents my observations and my concerns.
We already have tons of junk questions, and tons of junk answers slathered on by rep-bloating cowboys. Some few of us are "playing by different rules," striving to make every solution we post accurate, and possibly of value, over time, for both the OP, and for CodeProject, and often spending as much time posting comments to OP's trying to help clarify what they have/want/need as in posting "solutions."
Your implying that extending a window of time (perhaps 24 hours) for newbies/newcomers to have the opportunity to clarify their questions in response to comments on their original post (before they are deleted) somehow will trigger a flood of poor-quality questions is simply a negative fantasy on your part.
Please note that I did not (and am not) proposing stopping the current practice of quickly killing those posts that are blatantly homework, or so egregiously off-topic and technically inane they "beg" to be eliminated quickly
As someone who has lived in Asia 15 years of his adult life, and had experience teaching at various levels from high-school through college, I am always concerned about the experience of people for whom English is not their native language. Having been the (often undeserving) recipient of tolerance, and friendly suggestions for "course correction," in personal behavior and technical knowledge, I would like to try to "pay some of that forward."
I agree with you that there's a strong relationship between culture and moderation; but, we may have different views on what moderation means.
with respect, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Your initial post suggested cutting some slack for newbies. Fair enough. Your idea of allowing a period of grace, say 24 hours is better and more concrete. I would agree that it may be helpful to flag some questions which are clearly not wilful abuse as incomplete. At that point the OP could be given a period of time to amend the question and/or respond to comments. Solutions should not be accepted during this period which would reduce the number of gratuitous homilies being posted as answers. How to moderate this schema still remains a problem as for example what happens after the period of grace if the question still does not come up to scratch.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 12-Dec-15 0:01am.
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Hi Peter,
fyi: I probably did not mention the more specific idea of a "grace period" during which questions cannot be deleted if flagged in my first post because: I've mentioned that idea, in detail, many times in posts here on this forum; and, at the time I wrote the first post, I was a bit "burned-out" mentally.
In the past, I've advocated the idea on this forum that CP Members with some "threshold" reputation level as "Authority" be able to flag a QA question as "on hold for deletion and down-voting" if:
1. comments have been posted on the question asking for clarification, or asking the user to tag the question more completely.
2. the OP has responded, in some meaningful way, to comments in a way that indicates they are making a good-faith effort to make the question clearer.
My thoughts about the possible roles of MVP's in this are not so clear; some MVP's right now regularly post comments, and we-don't-do-homework advice to the OP of a non-technical nature, as solutions, now. Some MVP's rapidly post solutions (often cut-and-paste replies from previous answers) that are really off-topic.
I find it interesting that while CP does have the role/status of "Protector" available, the behavior of some of the persons with this role is anything but "protection."
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Your implying that extending a window of time (perhaps 24 hours) for newbies/newcomers to have the opportunity to clarify their questions in response to comments on their original post (before they are deleted) somehow will trigger a flood of poor-quality questions is simply a negative fantasy on your part.
Well that's not what I intended to mean. I said that with some questions (yes, it's a judgement call, there are no hard and fast rules) I think the OP should be given a prompt for more info if the question is generally of ok quality or has potential to be, but if the question is just trash then it should be closed.
The language aspect is another interesting one...there have been questions that *I* understand (even if they're vague) that other people who don't have English as their first language don't and seek to close the question, sometimes successfully and that can be frustrating, especially if you've provided an answer as you *did* understand it. I think most people would agree (?) that perhaps existing comments\solutions should remain visible if a question is closed.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: I think most people would agree (?) that perhaps existing comments\solutions should remain visible if a question is closed.
An interesting point, and one I'm inclined to agree with, but, then, what would it mean that a question is "closed."
Maybe a better way to focus on this issue is to ask:
"In what circumstances should a question be "frozen" for any further posting/editing, etc.; and, in what circumstances should a question be deleted ?"
If the question is an obvious waste of time, but there is, for whatever reason, an excellent solution posted ... yes, this does happen ... what then ?
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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As an aside, it takes 3 reports to close a post but if one of those 3 used a different reason to the other 2 then only the other 2 are listed on the closure notice.
The "bit of slack" gets my vote too - I've often come across questions where comments suggest that other members don't think the question is clear but I've interpreted it ok (the reverse has also been true!). Then when I come back with the solution I find the post closed 
I usually avoid reporting as unclear or not-a-question until the OP has had a chance to come back with more information
If a post is being reported for spam/abuse then I think a swift end is justified, but for unclear reports deffo a bit more leeway required
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My friend's Account has been de-activated without any reason. He has not posted any post.
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=6477852
Closed because the member is being abusive or is a troll. Reported by den2k88, Richard Deeming, KaushalJB, Richard MacCutchan, super, phil.o, OriginalGriff, Rohan Leuva, Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 8:12pm
Any bug?
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