Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Is it just me, or is everyone here suspected of being a spammer?

Is it just me, or is everyone here suspected of being a spammer?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
question
16 Posts 9 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • B Basildane

    I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

    N Offline
    N Offline
    Nish Nishant
    wrote on last edited by
    #2

    Chris is just trying to stop guys like you who go for the long con. :-D

    Regards, Nish


    Website: www.voidnish.com Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • B Basildane

      I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

      OriginalGriffO Offline
      OriginalGriffO Offline
      OriginalGriff
      wrote on last edited by
      #3

      It's not you specifically - I've was caught quite a few times until Chris changed the rules. The scanner is heuristic, and as it learns it does pick up false positives but it should learn to ignore them after a while. It doesn't normally take us long to moderate a message as spam or not spam so it shouldn't be too bad. And unfortunately, we can't assume that because someone has been here a good number of years that they won't decide to post spam. People start companies, get new jobs, write a blog, all of that - and that can trigger them to start spamming here. Trust me, you don't want to see the site without the anti-spam - sometimes it was impossible to see anything but the cr@p they posted... :sigh:

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

      "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

      B 1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        It's not you specifically - I've was caught quite a few times until Chris changed the rules. The scanner is heuristic, and as it learns it does pick up false positives but it should learn to ignore them after a while. It doesn't normally take us long to moderate a message as spam or not spam so it shouldn't be too bad. And unfortunately, we can't assume that because someone has been here a good number of years that they won't decide to post spam. People start companies, get new jobs, write a blog, all of that - and that can trigger them to start spamming here. Trust me, you don't want to see the site without the anti-spam - sometimes it was impossible to see anything but the cr@p they posted... :sigh:

        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

        B Offline
        B Offline
        Basildane
        wrote on last edited by
        #4

        Yes Griff, I would much rather have this than the spam, I was just curious.

        OriginalGriffO 1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • B Basildane

          Yes Griff, I would much rather have this than the spam, I was just curious.

          OriginalGriffO Offline
          OriginalGriffO Offline
          OriginalGriff
          wrote on last edited by
          #5

          :-D

          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

          "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

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • B Basildane

            I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

            K Offline
            K Offline
            Kirk 10389821
            wrote on last edited by
            #6

            I keep trying to post a list of the words that cause the blocking, but it NEVER goes through? :-)

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • B Basildane

              I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

              T Offline
              T Offline
              Tomaz Stih 0
              wrote on last edited by
              #7

              My feelings, exactly. I am member number 14657 and mother still needs to confirm my every post.

              OriginalGriffO 1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • T Tomaz Stih 0

                My feelings, exactly. I am member number 14657 and mother still needs to confirm my every post.

                OriginalGriffO Offline
                OriginalGriffO Offline
                OriginalGriff
                wrote on last edited by
                #8

                Don't worry - us Johnny-come-latelies will continue to let you through! :laugh:

                Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                "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

                T 1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  Don't worry - us Johnny-come-latelies will continue to let you through! :laugh:

                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                  T Offline
                  T Offline
                  Tomaz Stih 0
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #9

                  Very funny, 6122202. Very funny. :cool:

                  OriginalGriffO 1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • T Tomaz Stih 0

                    Very funny, 6122202. Very funny. :cool:

                    OriginalGriffO Offline
                    OriginalGriffO Offline
                    OriginalGriff
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #10

                    I am not a number - I AM A FREE MAN! (Provided the wife doesn't mind)

                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                    "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

                    K T 2 Replies Last reply
                    0
                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      I am not a number - I AM A FREE MAN! (Provided the wife doesn't mind)

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                      K Offline
                      K Offline
                      KarstenK
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #11

                      Everyone has a number :cool:

                      Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany

                      OriginalGriffO 1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • B Basildane

                        I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

                        F Offline
                        F Offline
                        Forogar
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #12

                        Yes, it's just you.

                        - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • K KarstenK

                          Everyone has a number :cool:

                          Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany

                          OriginalGriffO Offline
                          OriginalGriffO Offline
                          OriginalGriff
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #13

                          I always prefered 333 - the number of the µBeast

                          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                          "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

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • B Basildane

                            I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

                            T Offline
                            T Offline
                            TheOnlyRealTodd
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #14

                            This is clearly the "AGI" that we're coming up on in a few years... :laugh: :rolleyes:

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            • B Basildane

                              I've been on CP for 12.5 years now. And yet, almost every single comment I post is "held for moderation" because it is suspected of being spam. Fine, but why? Is it just me? Don't you think in 13 years if I was a spammer it would have been known by now? Just asking.

                              M Offline
                              M Offline
                              MacSpudster
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #15

                              You've been online 13 years, me 10 years. Yer CP points are 1/5th what I have. I figure, the more ya post, the more yer considered "real".... Post an article; get interviewed, etc.; those should help ya!

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              0
                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                I am not a number - I AM A FREE MAN! (Provided the wife doesn't mind)

                                Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                                T Offline
                                T Offline
                                Tomaz Stih 0
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #16

                                They say ev’rything can be replaced Yet ev’ry distance is not near So I remember ev’ry face Of ev’ry man who put me here I see my light come shining From the west unto the east Any day now, any day now I shall be released...

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                0
                                Reply
                                • Reply as topic
                                Log in to reply
                                • Oldest to Newest
                                • Newest to Oldest
                                • Most Votes


                                • Login

                                • Don't have an account? Register

                                • Login or register to search.
                                • First post
                                  Last post
                                0
                                • Categories
                                • Recent
                                • Tags
                                • Popular
                                • World
                                • Users
                                • Groups