Bugs and Suggestions

Jagger B13-Jan-17 12:56

13-Jan-17 12:56

Quote:
I did it About 6 hours ago.

Huh, About what? I replied a couple of hours ago to one of member who replied to my message.

Pete O'Hanlon13-Jan-17 5:09

Pete O'Hanlon

13-Jan-17 5:09

Frankly, I'll take you being mildly inconvenienced over the absolute crapstorm we used to see with spammers flooding the lounge with a couple of hundred spam posts a minute. We had the situation where spammers were creating multiple accounts and posting multiple messages per account. Now, it takes 10 votes to remove a spammer. It also takes someone some small amount of time to post a link to the spammer - and to vote to remove each spam message in the forums. That's our time that's being wasted. Now contrast this with the fact that if the flood of messages is caught in the spam filter, we only have to create the report to the user - and we can mass reject the spam with a one click operation. You can possibly see why we, the people who actually have to deal with the deluge of crap, much prefer the system that makes our lives that little bit easier.

Tell you what. Why don't you come up with a better spam handler if you think it's that easy? I'm sure that Chris and the team will be more than happy to use it if you can avoid these false negatives.

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jeron113-Jan-17 10:41

jeron1

13-Jan-17 10:41

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Why don't you come up with a better spam handler if you think it's that easy?

Ah, the sound of crickets chirping. Smile | :)

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Jagger B13-Jan-17 11:16

13-Jan-17 11:16

Quote:
Why don't you come up with a better spam handler

You seriously able to pay me for that solution. But the quickies and simple solution would be :

Instead of marking the entire message title/content as "Message Removed", display the title/content but disable any suspicious links and explicit contents from the message. This action should only happen for few min or second and then any "unretard mentor" or human may come and enable/disable, remove the links even delete the message.

Chris Maunder13-Jan-17 12:42

Chris Maunder

13-Jan-17 12:42

Member 12682271 wrote:
disable any suspicious links and explicit contents

I'm curious as to how one would automatically detect suspicious links and explicit content. And if we could detect messages with suspicious links and explicit content, why wouldn't we simply quarantine it as a whole for a few minutes?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Jagger B13-Jan-17 13:04

13-Jan-17 13:04

Quote:
suspicious links and explicit content

if the auto filter thinks the posted content has those suspicious or explicit content(it might not be) then do the solution that I provided instead of marking and displaying "Message Removed". If its really is suspicious or explicit then remove or quarantine it.

Chris Maunder13-Jan-17 15:40

Chris Maunder

13-Jan-17 15:40

Member 12682271 wrote:
If its really is suspicious or explicit then remove or quarantine it

We do quarantine it. It goes into moderation. I've also updated the message that's displayed on moderated posts to say "Message in moderation" to make it clearer.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Jochen Arndt12-Jan-17 2:08

Jochen Arndt

12-Jan-17 2:08

There is no public documentation of how the filter works to avoid being fooled by spammers.

But in this case it is obvious: Your message contains a link and not much more (while being perfectly valid).

It happened to me too in the past. It is better to wait a short time until a message is live rather than having a lot of spam.
Before the filter was introduced, there were spam runs with more than 100 messages in a few minutes hiding all valid messages.

And yes, it would be better to have a different subject like "Waiting for approval" as already suggested. But that is not up to me.

Jagger B12-Jan-17 2:13

Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

12-Jan-17 2:13

See the above reply.

Anton Angelov11-Jan-17 22:52

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

11-Jan-17 22:52

Hi guys,

I wanted to publish articles using the "Technical Blog Feeds" feature. However from 4 days the status of the feed for "Last Polled" is not changed. http://automatetheplanet.com/feed
Account URL: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/BlogFeedList.aspx?amid=11449574

In December last month I changed my site to use https, and I changed respectively the setting on the account too.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance for the help!

Anton

Sean Ewington12-Jan-17 3:28

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

12-Jan-17 3:28

When I kicked the aggregator to pull your feed, it said "Error." When I tried looking at your feed page Chrome had a lot of trouble loading it. There might be an issue there.

Looking at your feed, did you change any settings there? I notice that the full text isn't in the <description> tag. Has it always been that way?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov12-Jan-17 4:20

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

12-Jan-17 4:20

We have moved the site to different hosting and changed it to https but nothing else regarding the RSS. My email marketing depends on the RSS too, and it is working as expected. Can I do something else to assist you in fixing the problem?

Sean Ewington12-Jan-17 4:24

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

12-Jan-17 4:24

Is it possible to put the full content of a single post (preferably a longer one) into the description tag? And give it a rel-tag too? Or at least, temporarily change it so that the full blog entries are in the description tags and then I'll try pulling it again?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov12-Jan-17 23:04

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

12-Jan-17 23:04

Hi Sean,

Can you try to pull it again?

I found that the only change that was made was that last 300 items were returned. I now have changed this number to 50 so that the RSS could be loaded much faster. Maybe this was the problem? Since I don't think that before the full content was displayed in description tags. I use Wordpress, and the RSS is automatically generated, and I don't have control over it.

Thanks,
Anton

Sean Ewington13-Jan-17 4:45

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 4:45

Still an error. Can you try reducing it to less than 50? Think really small. Like 5.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov13-Jan-17 5:11

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 5:11

I have just change it to 5. Is the problem still there?

Sean Ewington13-Jan-17 5:17

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 5:17

The feed is still showing a lot of entries to me. It loads all entries up to April 22, 2014.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov13-Jan-17 5:34

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 5:34

Maybe it was some caching issue. I have just deleted the whole site's cache. The last item showed in my browser was published on Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:21:44 +0000. I have also tested in incognito mode so there shouldn't be a reason to show more items at your end. Smile | :)

Sean Ewington13-Jan-17 5:39

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 5:39

Much better. Still an error. Are you sure there's no way to edit your RSS feed? Or to add an alternate feed that you could manipulate? To my recollection the aggregator really does look inside that description tag and it's only happy if the whole blog entry is in there.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov13-Jan-17 6:01

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 6:01

Well, probably there is a way. I will try to find some plugin for WordPress for the job. I will write back as soon as I find a way. Thanks.

Anton Angelov13-Jan-17 7:39

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 7:39

I have researched the problem. I have checked the Blog Feeds of other CodeProject's MVPs. I think the feed of my site is just fine, displaying the content inside the content tag not in the description. You can check the following feeds: Technical Blog Feeds[^] , Technical Blog Feeds[^] , Technical Blog Feeds[^] , Technical Blog Feeds[^]

Can you check the exact exception thrown by your aggregator maybe there is another problem connected with the articles' content?

Sean Ewington13-Jan-17 7:59

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 7:59

Of those the only ones that have successfully pulled recently and are current have a CodeProject category. Can you please try adding that as well?

<category><![CDATA[CodeProject]]></category>

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov13-Jan-17 8:09

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 8:09

It seems that for WordPress this category tag is added once you set a new tag. So I have done it for my last article.

<title>CodeProject Statistics Calculator Using WebDriver</title>
<link>https://automatetheplanet.com/codeproject-statistics-calculator/</link>
<comments>https://automatetheplanet.com/codeproject-statistics-calculator/#respond</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anton Angelov]]></dc:creator>
<category><![CDATA[AutomationTools]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[.NET]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Automation]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[CodeProject]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[QA]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[WebDriver]]></category>

Maybe now it will work?

Sean Ewington13-Jan-17 8:18

Re: Can you check what is the problem with polled status of my site feed

13-Jan-17 8:18

Still Error. I've consulted a higher power. Frown | :(

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Anton Angelov13-Jan-17 8:21