I think it is a difficult balancing act, and one that a lot of people end up having to face: your business (substitute site, community, project whatever) hits a certain size and you have to make the...

You could apply that same logic to pretty mjuch every forum on the web: most forums have a certain level of spam becuase preventing every spamming idiot means that ordinary members would be hugely...

Just because some dullard abuses a system that does not mean that the the system itself is bad, nor does it mean that the dullard is some kind of hero - it just means that someone has abused the...

I am closing this thread as a fire fighting precaution

Clicking on 'clear' is exactly what I do, simplest solution and saves my brain exploding :)

The down votes simply mean people do not agree with either your opinion on the matter, or perhaps more likely the way you have expressed. They certainly do not mean you do not have a right to reply,...

I think, perhaps, now is the right time for this thread to wind down - or at least for participants to step back and take a deep breath before posting.

Let's not have it become a slanging match,...

DaniWeb does have a proper office you know :)

Address can be found by clicking the Contact Us (http://www.daniweb.com/contactus.php) link at the bottom of every page.

Sorry, jbennet is correct.

I also suggest that you reference the work in your report and cite any code which was given to you.

You asked for help, got help and now that help is available for...

I put the kibosh on it by saying everything was running fine :(

I believe it is calculated using the up and down votes your messages get, probably involving the number of individual members and number of individual posts which have been voted upon along the way....

I think that it needs time to settle. The whole idea of such a voting system is that it employs the 'wisdom of crowds' and as such we can only see if it is actually working or not over time.

The...

Don't forget netbooks, increasingly popular with the tech savvy user :)

The posts in question were deleted after being flagged as bad by other DaniWeb members. Upon investigation it turned out that not only did they have no bearing upon the thread/topic/forum in which...

Melvin, we will all miss you - but then you know that :)

Thanks for all your hard work here over the years, it really has been appreciated. Not just by your fellow mods and us admins, but by the...

Did you just say 'cluck' a link, AD? Is that avatar of yours really a chicken then? ;)

While we would love people to post on DaniWeb, people are quite welcome to participate by reading and learning as well. This community is about sharing knowledge, we do not exclude lurkers....

You need to leave this active thread, go to the forum you want to post in by using the drop down navigation menu at the top of the page and when you arrive there the 'start new thread' button will be...

Rashakil Fol was not banned for flagging a blog post by me, or indeed for anything to do with me.

He was banned because he posted an offensive comment attacking another DaniWeb member in a way...

Done, Kebab Man.

>Uhm, I think its quite obvious what my name is supposed to be, would you mind changing it

You are a Hemswort no more :)

Are they professional bots? ;)

My experience of people asking for account deletions, in general rather than this specific case, is that someone joins up - asks a question - does not an answer they like - then throws a hissy fit...

What she said!
I can think of no reason why you would get any spam as a result of visiting DaniWeb. If that happened we would not be the thriving community that we are today...

As has been said, you just have to live with it. Reputation, both good and bad, is given at the whim of the person giving it, it is their opinion, and as such we cannot say they are right or wrong. ...

I agree 100% about not wanting to scare away newbies, hence the concept of sending a polite PM suggesting they look at the code tags as this will increase the chances of them getting help.

Of...

The Rash repbot reputation will be reversed as soon as Dani works out the best way of doing so.

Yeah, well, we have to give even 'mespamyoulongtime' the benefit of the doubt :)

I think I might have married one...

It was deleted because the piece was cut and pasted, word for word, from another site. The original being part of an editorial at WServerNews (http://www.wservernews.com/)

When writing a blog...

Agreed. Also it would be nice to be notified when someone comments to a blog posting of your own, especially helpful when you have a volume of postings stretching back many months.

It would make sense, if to prevent the 'me too' posts apart from anything else. Of course, being a gobby type I have never encountered such a thing :)

I've just thrown some at you as well, so you don't feel left out :)

I'll try to remember to include you :)

Actually, if you are up for it I might even interview you for a more in-depth featured member profile...