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Re: Request to ban spammer

19-Oct-10 6:49

This guy has been spamming the boards:

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=7531150[^]

I've deleted some of his posts, but he keeps posting them. A ban would be great. Thank you.

Update : deleted at least 12 messages so far, and for the moment he seems to have got the hint. But he still needs to be banned.

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Nish

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Chris Maunder19-Oct-10 7:25

Re: Request to ban spammer

19-Oct-10 7:25

Request granted Wink | ;)

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Nish Nishant19-Oct-10 7:27

Re: Article withdrawal...

19-Oct-10 7:27

Thank you

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Article withdrawal...

Sandeep Mewara19-Oct-10 5:10

Sandeep Mewara

19-Oct-10 5:10

One of the user wants to withdraw his article because of some issues.
Can someone look at it[^].

He posted the same in Q&A, I have asked him to follow up here.

Sean Ewington19-Oct-10 5:19

Sean Ewington

19-Oct-10 5:19

Thanks Sandepp, I've helped him do the deed

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Voting rights

Dalek Dave19-Oct-10 0:22

Dalek Dave

19-Oct-10 0:22

In order to stop the unitossers voting us into a grey universe of oneness, I would perhaps make a couple of suggestions to the CP Overlords...

No voting priveledges at all until rep points > 1500
No voting Priveledges as all until Member Since > 30 days

Once they have been met...

Restricted voting rights (Say up to 5 Per day) until Debator Points > 1000
Restricted voting rights (No more than 5*1 Voting) until Member Since > 90 Days

That would stop the multi ID Changing Unitossers.

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Chris Maunder19-Oct-10 0:57

19-Oct-10 0:57

...or you could stop giving the person the attention they crave.

And no, I'm not removing the ability for the several thousand new members daily to express their opinion on the basis of a single person.

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Dalek Dave19-Oct-10 1:03

Dalek Dave

19-Oct-10 1:03

Expression of opinion is achievable via the posting of a message.
But changing ID's just to downvote whole swathes of the community is abusive behaviour.

I understand you have a difficult line to tread, but the concensus of opinion seems to be that 'Something must be done, Think Of the Children' .

Very small suggestion

thatraja19-Oct-10 1:18

thatraja

19-Oct-10 1:18

Chris at least you can disable only down-vote option for new members according to points mentioned by DD. If possible.....

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Chris Maunder19-Oct-10 1:36

19-Oct-10 1:36

When someone goes on a downvoting spree it's usually someone who has been around for a while. The reason they are downvoting is because they've had a long, ongoing spat with someone else.

Yes, removing their account and banning downvots for new members will solve the downvoting, but it's a very large hammer to use. A far easier solution is to stop feeding the trolls and downvoters.

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Chris Maunder

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Pete O'Hanlon19-Oct-10 1:39

Pete O'Hanlon

19-Oct-10 1:39

I love your innocence and touching naivety. It's so sweet to see. Smile | :)

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Chris Maunder19-Oct-10 4:14

19-Oct-10 4:14

I had to try...

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thatraja19-Oct-10 2:05

thatraja

19-Oct-10 2:05

Yeah, your fact is right which i was already guessed something, that's why i leave the words "If possible" last in my message. Thanks

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Dan Neely19-Oct-10 2:37

Dan Neely

19-Oct-10 2:37

I disagree. Just pretending that a jerk isn't being a jerk works as well online as it does in real life. How the proprietors handle jerks is the difference between the nice bar you take your friends to when they come to visit and the nuisance that get shut down because they're always having the police show up.

I hate to say it, but the lack of any consequences for abusers is pushing the lounge towards the latter category.

The only thing that setting the current limits on voting rates has done is to make peer moderation nearly impossible because when a troll goes crazy only the people who hit refresh every 10 minutes can come close to casting abuse votes on all its posts. The univoting trolls meanwhile are free to just switch between thier various sock puppets and can cast abusive votes on everything.

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Chris Maunder19-Oct-10 4:07

19-Oct-10 4:07

Good points, Dan. Very good points.

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Moak19-Oct-10 6:32

Moak

19-Oct-10 6:32

Totally agree. I wondered for a while now why the CP admins can't just target the occasional black sheep.

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Chris Maunder19-Oct-10 10:51

19-Oct-10 10:51

Define "target". If you mean "remove accounts", "remove spurious votes", or "have a heart to heart with a long standing member who has an issue and resolve it sensibly", or any combination thereof, then I'd say we're covered.

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Moak19-Oct-10 11:19

Moak

19-Oct-10 11:19

Chris, let's say you have the occasional black sheep covered, then everyone should be fine and there should be no voting problem for most. But since the topic comes up again and again and angers members... I am asking myself if there is something left to be improved (such as a faster admin response time or more tools for peer review)? I'd say you are not covered, the occasional univoter trolls are still able to cause trouble. Luckily I miss most of the voting trouble, because I am rarely posting in the Lounge. Smile | :)

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Nish Nishant19-Oct-10 1:42

19-Oct-10 1:42

Chris Maunder wrote:
...or you could stop giving the person the attention they crave.

+1.

Anyone giving the univoter what he/she needs (attention) is as bad as the univoter.

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Rutvik Dave19-Oct-10 17:59

Rutvik Dave

19-Oct-10 17:59

Yeah, to stop some abusive users, why the whole site has to be abusive to new users. I also though about this kind of rule, because it was not going to affect me. you need to think from every single user's perspective.

Tom Deketelaere19-Oct-10 1:08

Tom Deketelaere

19-Oct-10 1:08

Why does it worry you so much?

The uni-voters aren't doing any harm in fact there giving you more rep points since in every case over the past week every time the uni-voter strikes multiple other people balance the 1 vote out, people with higher reputations and thus more weight in the voting.
So after 15 min or so your reputation actually went up instead of down and the posts are colored in blue (maybe even in red).

Dalek Dave19-Oct-10 1:18

Dalek Dave

19-Oct-10 1:18

It is the Abuse that I object to.

Tom Deketelaere19-Oct-10 2:36

Tom Deketelaere

19-Oct-10 2:36

I can see that that would annoy you but still the argument stands, the 1 votes get more than balanced out by the regular members and eventually the forum goes back to normal.

What I object to however is the accusing people from being uni-voters while having no hard evidence of it (this has happened several times now in the past week by several people).

The only people who can determine that are the CP admins and the rest of us should just let them deal with it the way they see fit and not going around accusing people just because we feel / think it's them.

Nish Nishant19-Oct-10 1:43