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We do.
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Chris Maunder
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There is a bunch of message closed in the board of the weekly poll.
Could someone with a big hammer clean that up? Going one message at a time is a bit annoying.
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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See what you mean - three pages worth! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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✅ Done
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Thank you Matthew
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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Matthew, what happens to a message when we reject it in the automated detector list?
With questions and answers, they don't appear anywhere, so I suspect they are deleted "properly".
Does the same happen with messages as well?
If it does, would it be possible to delete the placeholder "this message is under review" rather than replace it with "message closed"?
That way, the forums wouldn't get clogged up with "closed messages" like they do sometimes at the moment?
It looks like Mr Keyboard is stepping up his game and while we can cope with kicking his sock puppets, he's leaving a fair bit of mess behind him.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The buggers are persistent...
One page and a half again with message closed.
Could you have a look again please?
M.D.V. 
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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All clean.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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They're still at it on last weeks survey. 
They seem to've gotten bored and stopped on Sunday though; so hopefully this will be the last time you need to bounce the rubble with bigger nukes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Is it possible to add an hard filter to kill Mr Keyboard before Spam & Abuse watch has to intervene? I mean they're always fresh accounts that publish a short string of text that does not pertain to any dictionary.
For trolls and DOSsers like those an hard and fast automated response is usually the only way to stop them.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Trouble is that that could easily apply to much of my spelling, if I don't notice and fix it.
And many non-native english speakers are worse than that, so it's going to be very prone to false positives - which with an automated system are a very bad idea!
Perhaps instead a "harder kill" for Protectors and above? 2 or 3 of their votes kill, instead of the 10 we require for non-staff kills?
That gives us some margin for human error alone with a faster kill rate.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Adding together new account and no words is already a passable filter, consider that there are ways to calculate distance from the nearest words.
If I write "steinf" (my latest misspelled word for string) it has a certain distance from the nearest words, while the usual garbage (e.g. iglshdifnud) is pretty far from anything in the dictionary. Since predictive text works precisely using this concept of distance it /should/ be feasible.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Or at least flag the account for review, preventing them from posting anything else until said review is finished.
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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That doesn't help a lot, since Mr Keyboard normally posts just two messages and then abandons the account. I'd suspect a bit of some kind myself, and the only way round that would be captcha on account creation which Chris seems to be reluctant to go with.
Here's a thought: @Chris-Maunder can you check IP addresses against the Mr Keyboard posts? If they are all coming from the same IP, then perhaps a temporary captcha system imposed on account creation from "Mr Keyboard" sources for 24 hours or so could get rid of the problem? Each time he creates an account, posts rubbish, and gets kicked, the IP is required to pass captcha for a day when creating a new account? It imposes a burden on some new members but ... omelettes;eggs.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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We abandoned IP address white/black listing years ago. Spammers are either
- Drive-by
- Organised and with the ability to use hundreds or thousands of IP addresses, and only use a few addresses in each batch of messages
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My post in the Lounge[^] announcing a holiday for TotD got three Reactions, but two of them appear to be the same one, from the same member:
I didn't think that was possible ...
Refresh / CTRL-F5 doesn't change it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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May be related... Bugs and Suggestions[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It was suggested that this[^] be posted in this forum instead.
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(Ignore my previous message)
Try posting on the lounge. As long as it's not an ad, it's fine.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I signed up using my GitHub account, so code project got my email from the OAuth there. I noticed I could not do any voting on posts, but I can post replies, etc.
I haven't see any email verification requests. When I look in my account details, there are no buttons to "verify email" or anything. So, it looks like a bug? How does one normally verify an email after signing up via GitHub?
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I've sent you an email confirmation request.
I agree that finding out how to do this is difficult and will look at making this easy.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I am in the same trouble.
it's weird because my account is 14 years old...
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If you haven't done something that verifies your email in a long while, your email will be placed in an unverified state. One way you get your email verified is clicking on a link in one of our Newsletter emails.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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i am ok with that... but read message of C-Fuhrman again...
i can't find any button to validate my email again
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