Are the posted questions getting worse?

Grant Fritchey (7/15/2009)

My Twitter account just got suspended for suspected abuse. I wasn't abusing anything. This stinks. According to the documentation, they can suspend it for up to 30 days.

Uh-oh, I might be next. Might have been the use of the word "porn". That's probably an automatic or something.

Jack Corbett
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 397721 More actions · Answer 4

It's clear now. I'm not sure why it was revoked, but I guess they recognize the mistake. I won't be using the word "Porn" again any time soon.

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July 15, 2009 at 3:07 pm

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Kit G (7/15/2009)

My favorite Terry Prachett book is "The Fifth Elephant." Poor Vimes... my next favorite after that would be the book about Death.

Mort is my favourite, closely followed by Sourcery.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 6

Steve Jones - Editor (7/15/2009)

That happened to me as well, Grant. Had to email them to get it fixed. took about a day.[/quote

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Grant Fritchey (7/15/2009)

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My Twitter account just got suspended for suspected abuse. I wasn't abusing anything. This stinks. According to the documentation, they can suspend it for up to 30 days.

Uh-oh, I might be next. Might have been the use of the word "porn". That's probably an automatic or something.

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Jack Corbett

Applications Developer

... :w00t: Had to delete my own post about that . . . like you guys too much to defame you publicly ... :hehe:

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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9013 More actions · Answer 7

Has The Thread died due to an Unhandled Exception? Yesterday 38 posts after "work" in six hours, today a measly 12 in 10 hours?

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Steve Jones - Editor (7/15/2009)

jcrawf02 (7/15/2009)

Steve, funky display going on inthis thread.

No idea, what's wrong there. Usually it's an embedded HTML code, but I don't see on there. Definitely something weird.

It is embedded HTML. If you look at the source of this post (753126) You'll see that what appears as

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should actually have the characters < / t a b l e > between the quotes.

Derek

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Derek Dongray (7/15/2009)

Steve Jones - Editor (7/15/2009)

jcrawf02 (7/15/2009)

Steve, funky display going on inthis thread.

No idea, what's wrong there. Usually it's an embedded HTML code, but I don't see on there. Definitely something weird.

It is embedded HTML. If you look at the source of this post (753126) You'll see that what appears as

N'

';

should actually have the characters < / t a b l e > between the quotes.

As a test, I've reproduced the problem here

Derek

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 10

nice debug, Derek. Now I just have to go answer some posts using that to make my answers 'right'-er than everyone else. 😛

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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184388 More actions · Answer 11

jcrawf02 (7/15/2009)

Steve Jones - Editor (7/15/2009)

That happened to me as well, Grant. Had to email them to get it fixed. took about a day.[/quote

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Grant Fritchey (7/15/2009)

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My Twitter account just got suspended for suspected abuse. I wasn't abusing anything. This stinks. According to the documentation, they can suspend it for up to 30 days.

Uh-oh, I might be next. Might have been the use of the word "porn". That's probably an automatic or something.

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Jack Corbett

Applications Developer

... :w00t: Had to delete my own post about that . . . like you guys too much to defame you publicly ... :hehe:

Thanks, that makes me feel much better. Just to clarify the use of the word was because of my Twitter handle and my explanation of it here.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728159 More actions · Answer 12

Derek Dongray (7/15/2009)

It is embedded HTML. If you look at the source of this post (753126) You'll see that what appears as

N'

';

should actually have the characters < / t a b l e > between the quotes.

Doh! I read that one 3 times as source and didn't see that.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 13

Paul White (7/15/2009)

Kit G (7/15/2009)

My favorite Terry Prachett book is "The Fifth Elephant." Poor Vimes... my next favorite after that would be the book about Death.

Mort is my favourite, closely followed by Sourcery.

I guess someone I (remotely) relate to is Ponder Stibbons, one of the few hardworking wizards in Unseen University, unappreciated by his colleagues, but toiling with Hex, his beloved "computer" to make the world a better place, just like DBA's everywhere...*snif*

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Gaby A. (7/16/2009)

I guess someone I (remotely) relate to is Ponder Stibbons, one of the few hardworking wizards in Unseen University, unappreciated by his colleagues, but toiling with Hex, his beloved "computer" to make the world a better place, just like DBA's everywhere...*snif*

And it would of worked if only they could get enough bugs in the system 🙂

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GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 15

Dave Ballantyne (7/16/2009)

And it would of worked if only they could get enough bugs in the system 🙂

Love how, to "program" the computer, you used punch cards inserted into the tubes, and then let the ants through in certain patterns, not to mention the flatulent beach ball. Great description of Hex in Wikipedia, including Discworld analogies for data compression.

I especially love the water wheel with sheep skulls on it (the RAM). 😀

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