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Profiles for low-rep user accounts quite rightly don't allow a home-page link, or links in the bio.
The spammers seems to have cottoned-on to this restriction. They've started embedding their links as QR codes in their profile picture. Eg:
Perhaps it's time to start restricting the display of profile pictures below a certain rep-point threshold as well?
"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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Or just use a reader to check if it is a QR code and specifically ban those ones?
That's more work, but it's more friendly for newbies.
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I should have read your message before replying.
It's actually pretty easy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well, it's Friday, and it's probably been a long week... 
[edit] "Friday", not "Firday". This keyboard has AutoMistype enabled.[/edit]
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Clever, but at this point I don't want to make newcomers feel that unwelcome. Cranking down the screws helps, certainly, but there's a point where it hurts the good guys more than it dissuades the bad guys.
Having said that, Uzi Granot has kindly shared his QR code library[^] that probably makes it trivial for us to do a quick sanity cbeck and simply ditch images with QR codes...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Quote: "... makes it trivial for us to do a quick sanity cbeck and simply ditch images with QR codes ..."
Lol, what a farsighted logic! Same is valid for other pictures with abusive content and also any text.
Think about it... is not more the content of a qr code/any other pic which can be problematic?
modified 14-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I submitted a question and was met w/ a message stating more or less "too many posts" and "should ease up tiger" Is this because I submitted a Trick/Tip the same day and another a day or two ago? The question is displayed when I click on My Questions but w/o any indication it has not been posted in fact it states "Posted 23 minutes ago". It is not displayed when I click on View All Questions. If there is a limit on posts why did not the message state the limit? I read the Terms of Service but saw nothing re/ limits on posts Kindly advise
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Q&A has been having issues lately (being completely and utterly broken yesterday. See threads below).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It's been ten hours since the last question was posted, so I tried posting a test one:
All I got was:
There was an internal error creating the item.
That explains the long gap, I guess ...
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Found the issues
1. A database change wasn't reflected properly in one of the sprocs
2. Our health monitoring completely failed to alert us
#1 was 30 secs. #2 is the one that's concerning us the most
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How long until the fix is deployed? I'm still getting the error posting a solution. 
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- Homer
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Chris Maunder wrote: Our health monitoring completely failed to alert us
Yes it did! There was me, and Richard, and Chris, ... 
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Yeah, well, we don't like to lan on your goodwill unnecessarily.
But thanks ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Same problem still occurring - I get the same error when posting a question.
[edit]CTRL+F5 made no difference, not that I thought it would ...[/edit]
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Look on the bright side ... no spam!
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Post your Article
An error occurred while loading the article. Please refresh the page to retry. ?
But that didn't work.
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Every time I try to post an answer to this question[^], I get:
Quote: An unexpected error occurred while attempting to create your new entry. Please try again later.
Firefox 90, Windows 10.
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- Homer
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Yeah I'm getting the same thing responding to this question. Running Chrome 91, Windows 10.
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Judging by the fact that the last answer seems to have been posted 19 hours ago now, I'm guessing this affects everybody.
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Quote: I'm guessing this affects everybody.
Yes, affected too.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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And I mean blank. Not only no returns but no left-justified controls.
Steps to duplicate:
1. Search[^]
2. See options left
3. Hit refresh
I would expect many people to hop on this bugger. But I guess noone is USING a feature of CP as the constructive feature that it should be.
[Edit]
I see that search returns rains down at last ... but this latency is fresh. It's probably only me and my ... wIfI.
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Works fine now; sorry. It is me.
modified 13-Jul-21 14:25pm.
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Actually, there are two search boxes on the page. One was broken as you described.
I'm currently deploying the fix.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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At the top of the page after attempting to update my article I am getting an error
"Too many attributes. There is a limit of 8."
What's up?
Here's the article link: GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT[^]
I don't think I changed anything that could be considered an "attribute"?
Edit: I figured out what the error meant. Tags. It was talking about tags. Not sure what an attribute is. Still, you lowered the limit. I can tell because my article used to post.
The problem is for IoT, 8 tags is really low. If you target multiple frameworks - say two of them, that's at least three tags, and that's not including the audience tags and other core tags. By the time you're done you maybe have *one* general purpose slot you can use for a tag that's specific to what your project actually does. That seems ... less than good.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 13-Jul-21 14:43pm.
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I've 'fixed' the error message to use 'tags' instead of 'attribute'. Attributes is what we call them in our code, probably to avoid confusion with HTML tags.
The limit on the number of tags was made for a number of reasons:
* We only display a limited number of tags anyways, so making sure that the author picks the best one is important
* Too many tags become noise. If you are finding that you are adding a bunch of tags that are very similar, then you probably should be using a higher-level tag that encompasses the tags.
Tags are used for classification of articles and adding too many risks having the article classed into the wrong bucket. Since most articles are reached from a Google search, if you have the terms in the article, you will still be found.
I am open to discussion on this, so if you have any thoughts about this I would be happy to here them.
In your case, the IOT tag will ensure the document is classified in the IOT bucket and appear on the front page in the right place.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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my issue is this: It's not unrealistic to target more than one IoT framework, so if you're targeting two, that's three tags. Add the audience stuff and that's at least two more. Add one more for the language you target. I understand the rationale, and I'm not really trying to argue, but it just seems like you almost get penalized for targeting multiple platforms unless you keep them out of the tags altogether. It's a choice between accurately tagging your supported platforms vs accurately tagging what your article actual does in terms of what topics it covers.
Do tags influence searches? I thought they would, which is the main reason i use them, not so much for display, except in terms of categorizing them for the front page. Maybe I'm using them wrong.
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