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What is happening in the "quick answers" forum that marks a years-old post as updated? When you look at the post, nothing has been updated except for the date at the very bottom. :confused:
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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What is happening in the "quick answers" forum that marks a years-old post as updated? When you look at the post, nothing has been updated except for the date at the very bottom. :confused:
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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What is happening in the "quick answers" forum that marks a years-old post as updated? When you look at the post, nothing has been updated except for the date at the very bottom. :confused:
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
As Richard said, spammers do a quick search and resurrect very old questions, then we spot and nuke them, which leads to the spammed thread to appear as "changed / edited" but there is not trace of the new content. What usually ends up adding a couple of posts more because the people was trying to help, without realizing the question is that old.
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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As Richard said, spammers do a quick search and resurrect very old questions, then we spot and nuke them, which leads to the spammed thread to appear as "changed / edited" but there is not trace of the new content. What usually ends up adding a couple of posts more because the people was trying to help, without realizing the question is that old.
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.
So is the date at the bottom of the post simply saying that some element of the post has been changed? If so, is there a way for the thing that updates that date to differentiate between an admin "nuking" spam content -vs- a legitimate post? In other words, don't turn on the "dirty" flag if the change was the result of spam being deleted.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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So is the date at the bottom of the post simply saying that some element of the post has been changed? If so, is there a way for the thing that updates that date to differentiate between an admin "nuking" spam content -vs- a legitimate post? In other words, don't turn on the "dirty" flag if the change was the result of spam being deleted.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
It's not so much an issue of turning on the flag. It's more about reverting the date if a deletion was due to spam. Or better: Each time there's an edit/post/answer we simply scan the question and all answers and grab the latest date as the "last date something happened".
cheers Chris Maunder
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It's not so much an issue of turning on the flag. It's more about reverting the date if a deletion was due to spam. Or better: Each time there's an edit/post/answer we simply scan the question and all answers and grab the latest date as the "last date something happened".
cheers Chris Maunder
I think I suggested this a long time ago, but may when a question gets to be a certain age, it remains in the system, but nobody can post comments or solutions to it, and the question and all existing comments/solutions become read-only.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I think I suggested this a long time ago, but may when a question gets to be a certain age, it remains in the system, but nobody can post comments or solutions to it, and the question and all existing comments/solutions become read-only.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013I'm not keen on this approach purely on the basis that things change. In weeks sometimes. It's always handy to have someone come along and say "that worked 2 years ago, but here's how you need to do it now"
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm not keen on this approach purely on the basis that things change. In weeks sometimes. It's always handy to have someone come along and say "that worked 2 years ago, but here's how you need to do it now"
cheers Chris Maunder
IMHO, if the question needs to be asked/answered again with new info, there's no harm in asking again. My idea would simply stop really old questions (greater than 2 years) from bubbling back to the top of the queue.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
