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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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A badger[^].
"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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That's what the text said when I copied and pasted it to try and figure it out, but it didn't look like no badger to me!
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Hi all,
In Professional Profile > Reputation tab, the graphic shows data until today,
But reputation points is not complete
My rep is 185k but graphic ends at 158k.
In participant, it seems rep points of MVP rewards are missing, otherwise, points are missing in any category.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Have a look to the date. In my case the history end in the popup shows 16-12-2019:
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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For me, history ends at 01/06/2020 (European date format: dd/mm/yy)
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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This is a known issue that is on our list.
Basically, the stored procedure for updating the tables used for the graph occasionally times out for members with a lot of reputation events.
Don't worry, you won't lose any points, just the graph may be missing some data until it is fixed.
And since this is an issue for high rep members, the difference is really not that significant, it still shows that you are amazing.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Thanks for information.
Hope you have time to fix it soon.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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