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#1 2013-03-24 19:29:08
- RedRocker227
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- Registered: 2011-10-26
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the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
it's annoying when you have to keep coming up with variations of thank you ("thanks", "thanks!", "thank you!", "thank you!!", etc.). if the purpose is to stop people spamming links to their project, then why would anyone post a link to their project on the project?
or, alternatively, make it so that comments that are both less than, say, five words, and don't contain a link aren't checked
or just whitelist phrases like "thanks" and "thank you"
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#2 2013-03-24 20:27:17
Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
RedRocker227 wrote:
it's annoying when you have to keep coming up with variations of thank you ("thanks", "thanks!", "thank you!", "thank you!!", etc.). if the purpose is to stop people spamming links to their project, then why would anyone post a link to their project on the project?
or, alternatively, make it so that comments that are both less than, say, five words, and don't contain a link aren't checked
or just whitelist phrases like "thanks" and "thank you"
Support - Of course it would need a more complex classifier, but I think a new rule would be great. I actually ran into it a few minutes ago.
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#3 2013-03-25 12:17:37
- firedrake969_test
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- Registered: 2012-08-08
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Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
Support. I want to thank people for praising my project, but I can't. :L I don't want to seem mean, so I resort to using smiley faces.
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#4 2013-03-25 13:02:39
Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
firedrake969_test wrote:
Support. I want to thank people for praising my project, but I can't. :L I don't want to seem mean, so I resort to using smiley faces.
Some of us do things like "Thanks! (similar message filter)". I had used "Thanks! (2)" before. Its interesting to see the different methods we use 
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#5 2013-03-26 10:18:45
- mythbusteranimator
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- Registered: 2012-02-28
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Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
Support, though I believe this has been asked multiple times.
Dunno why there isn't news about it, though. 
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#6 2013-03-26 13:18:54
Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
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mythbusteranimator wrote:
Support, though I believe this has been asked multiple times.
Dunno why there isn't news about it, though.
internet's all about cats today.
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#7 2013-03-26 13:23:21
Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
I don't think there is much the ST can do about it, guys. The spam filter is hard to code and a computer doesn't understand English, Spanish, whatever language it may be. It's just a thing you have to deal with, even if it is annoying. I find it difficult too, but it's just there.
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#8 2013-03-26 14:50:11
- RedRocker227
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- Registered: 2011-10-26
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Re: the "you have posted a similar message recently" rule needs changing
7734f wrote:
I don't think there is much the ST can do about it, guys. The spam filter is hard to code and a computer doesn't understand English, Spanish, whatever language it may be. It's just a thing you have to deal with, even if it is annoying. I find it difficult too, but it's just there.
This entire website would have been hard to code, but the people working on the site are professional programmers so I doubt that the programming side of it would be a problem.
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