Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-27 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 14:59:20 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 09:09:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 15:11:20 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi and now he is trying D and have any doubt, he will need to

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-26 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 09:09:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 15:11:20 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi and now he is trying D and have any doubt, he will need to evolve first to understand ternary before posting something, becau

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-26 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 15:11:20 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi and now he is trying D and have any doubt, he will need to evolve first to understand ternary before posting something, because ternary in these languages are different. You underestimate

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:16:14 UTC, Chris wrote: The captchas are awful, why would you want to waste brain cycles on that if you wanna send a one line response or so... If it is for mitigate spam/bot, you can easily by pass it with a simple script[1]. I'd prefer a captcha system t

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 07:43:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote: I don't think you can go into programming from absolute zero. So I assume for what you're saying that anybody who comes here already knows at least: ternary, promotion, implicit casting. For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi an

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I'll not create a topic to check this behavior, but this message doesn't show up when replying inside a topic. PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: int v() { return 26 % 3 ? 13 / 3 : 42 %

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 07:43:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote: Well, it requires you to know what a ternary operator is It wouldn't be a captcha if the questions were like "what is the most popular social network?". Also int doesn't impli

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote: Well, it requires you to know what a ternary operator is It wouldn't be a captcha if the questions were like "what is the most popular social network?". Also int doesn't implicitly convert to bool. On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 05:5

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 05:52:57 UTC, bauss wrote: Not for someone who is just introduced to programming and doesn't D want to attract newcomers? If so we cannot have a programmer specific captcha. https://forum.dlang.org/post/vrehthdqtenpnysru...@forum.dlang.org Please address the c

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:44:09 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: int v() { return 26 % 3 ? 13 / 3 : 42 % 5; } I mean Awww, that's cute! Finding a remainde

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread mazenn via Digitalmars-d
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold ... Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote: Awww, that's cute! Finding a remainder from division by 3 (three!) is junior school arithmetic. And in this case you don't even need to properly calculate it, only guess that it's not zero. I don't see a good excuse to fail at it. Well,

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread JN via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:44:09 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: int v() { return 26 % 3 ? 13 / 3 : 42 % 5; } I mean Awww, that's cute! Finding a remainde

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: int v() { return 26 % 3 ? 13 / 3 : 42 % 5; } I mean Awww, that's cute! Finding a remainder from division by 3 (three!) is junior school arithmetic. And

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 21:42:11 UTC, bauss wrote: Maybe it should be visible to more users? At present I do not believe this would bring an observable benefit.

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 19:41:56 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 19:09:24 UTC, bauss wrote: And on top of that maybe a flag system. This exists, but is only visible to certain users. Maybe it should be visible to more users?

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 19:09:24 UTC, bauss wrote: ... It's no rocket science, so it really doesn't do much in preventing I think. Really it can be automated like: 1. Copy the code 2. Go to run.dlang.io 3. Paste the code 4. Compile it 5. Wait for the output 6. Copy the output 7. Pas

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 19:09:24 UTC, bauss wrote: And on top of that maybe a flag system. This exists, but is only visible to certain users.

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 19:09:24 UTC, bauss wrote: But what is there to stop a spammer from doing the same? Spammers are not going to exert that much effort in order to be able to spam 1 website, so that the moderators then change their algorithm and block them again. This is the

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 18:56:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 17:19:41 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I did by head. But how a newbie would suppose to do that? For that challenge, you only non-obvious thing need to know is the syntax for the modulus and t

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 17:19:41 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I did by head. But how a newbie would suppose to do that? For that challenge, you only non-obvious thing need to know is the syntax for the modulus and ternary operators, which are present in many programming languages. You can

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 17:13:18 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: If you have a better idea of a CAPTCHA that would be easy for D programmers but hard for

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 14:58:58 UTC, aberba wrote: I'm just seeing a ..."Your message has been saved, and will be posted after being **approved** by a moderator". This doesn't make sense. Your post was flagged by the spam filter. It was a false positive, which sometimes occurs with

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: If you have a better idea of a CAPTCHA that would be easy for D programmers but hard for spammers, please submit a pull request: https://github.com/CyberShadow/d

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 14:58:58 UTC, aberba wrote: I'm just seeing a ..."Your message has been saved, and will be posted after being **approved** by a moderator". This doesn't make sense. ... This happens only for new topic? S.G.

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:45:15 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 14:58:58 UTC, aberba wrote: I'm just seeing a ..."Your message has been saved, and will be posted after being **approved** by a moderator". This doesn't make sense. ... This happens only for n

Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d
I'm just seeing a ..."Your message has been saved, and will be posted after being **approved** by a moderator". This doesn't make sense. 1. what criteria decides if my comment deserves approval or not? 2. Is there a full-time moderator available to ensure there no bureaucracy/delay? 3. Is it n