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I suspect it's related to this bug report: Bugs and Suggestions[^] - if so then the solution to one will fix both...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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It's a \uFFFD "replacement character" when UTF encoding goes off the rails. See Minor presentation issues[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Thanks for this. It's been fixed (dumb mistake saving a file and VS not saving in the correct format) which will be corrected next deploy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Considering the answer of my message below Re:Cool[^] and the weekly poll about the article series...
I don't know how that reading list feature is being implemented or if it is thought for this purpose, but...
Would it be possible to set an "article series" attribute in the author's profile where the name of the series to be / being written are listed and then choose it in the article editor before publishing?
With that information the new "series link list" could auto-update itself and avoid to have to edit each previous article to include the link of the new article to the list (not the first time I have seen problem with those manual lists)
Example:
I plan a series about "XXX" then I add a new series in my profile, I set the tags ".Net Core, C#... whatsoever" and give the name "YYYZZZ" to the series.
Then I go to the article editor, write my content, hit "part of a series", select "YYYZZZ" in the possible combobox, hit publish
A week later I publish another article about whatsoever (not related)
And then I come back and publish the next part of the series... I go to the editor, write my content, click "part of series", select "YYYZZZ", hit publish.
The new "reading list" appears in both articles belonging "YYYZZZ" automatically and contains the links of both articles (published timestamp sorted?)
I write a third article about it, select "YYYZZZ" and publish.
The List adds a third link without having to edit the previous articles to add it manually
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?
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modified 10-Jun-20 2:07am.
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Once this feature is available to authors, you will not have to edit previous articles to update the list of articles in the series.
You would create a series and add the articles to the series. Articles that are part of the series will display the list. So if you add another article to the series list, then it will show up in all the articles.
Chris and Ryan are the brains behind this feature, an might elaborate on when this will roll out to authors in general. We needed it for an internal project, so it might still have some sharp edges that need filing down.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: Chris and Ryan are the brains behind this feature, an might elaborate on when this will roll out to authors in general. We needed it for an internal project, so it might still have some sharp edges that need filing down.
Yeah, Chris told me in the message below. But I didn't know how was it supposed to work, that's why I just wanted to bring some thoughts up
Matthew Dennis wrote: Once this feature is available to authors, you will not have to edit previous articles to update the list of articles in the series.
You would create a series and add the articles to the series. Articles that are part of the series will display the list. So if you add another article to the series list, then it will show up in all the articles.
Sounds good (and not so different from what I said   )
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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Inspired by wizardzz's account trouble, I tried some display name tricks again. I could copy his display name with just a zero-width space in it.
I couldn't copy Chris Maunder's display name with just a zero-width space. But I could do it with a Cyrillic "а" (that's not an "a"). Perhaps the name comparisons could be improved to prevent this.
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That is a great idea. We do something like that for filtering out extreme or offensive swearing, but not here.
Knowing the code, this will be an 'interesting' code change.
Please revert your name, or you are likely to be marked as a Spammer and have your account closed.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: Knowing the code, this will be an 'interesting' code change.
Said every developer ever  
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I can manipulate the font when I post but that does not include any of the little emojis (or is that emoticons?). This really can stifle one's expressive "creativity". ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) , please rectify.
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You can easily do it if you get a little creative.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We need to petition the Unicode Consortium to add some of the missing emoji, particularly . 
The closest I can find is:
👽
"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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Be careful what you wish for - you might get it.
Imagine, then, if you find Bob on (shudder!) stackoverflow?
As an imoji he would become liable to that and other slanders!
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You'd just need to make sure he was wearing a badge that said, "Come to CodeProject, it's a much nicer place!".
"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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..not to mention that he'd then be able to be coloured using CSS. Hot Pink Bob? Not even Sean would go for that one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Challenge accepted.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Hi, I am not getting the password reset emails for my old username 'wizardzz'
I checked the spam folder, no dice.
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I'll send you an email about this.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Some bozo is rapidly posting garbage, likely with a bot. See this post[^] by @Nelek. We used to call this a babbling idiot. Ours were often caused by hardware faults, but the term still works quite well here.
We handled this with a leaky bucket counter, which says that n events in s seconds is OK, and anything more is excessive. A bucket has credits (for events) and a timestamp. When an event occurs, the time since the last event adds a pro-rated number of credits to the bucket, up to its maximum of n. The timestamp is then updated to account for any new credits and the count of credits is decremented. If the number of credits drops below zero, the source is considered a babbler and is ignored for a while. If the babbling keeps recurring, the source is ignored for longer or until reenabled by an administrator.
You can use this to limit the number of events that an account can generate. It can even be weighted so that a new post uses more credits than a vote, for example. A limit of 5 events per minute might be reasonable, although this would somewhat hamper those of us who help to purge spammers by flagging the accounts in @phil-o's daily SAOTD post.
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We do have limits. You can see he hit them. It's not as advanced as it could be, but we found that as we tried to make babble traps more sophisticated we ended up catching Real Humans and the babblebots would adapt (scarily fast) and break through.
Just like Apple found that people build phones better than robots, we've found people are better babble blockers than bots.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: people are better babble blockers than bots
But hamsters are the best!
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![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif) are pretty good too.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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A panda doing jumping jacks? A rockhopper?
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