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ryuslash, you won't "fill up" the recentlog, you'll help create the conversation that recentlog is supposed to be. People who aren't interested don't have to read it, and if they're repeatedly not interested in what someone has to say they can rate their diary below the threshold they read at.

QOTD: Blog comments are for the weak. -- Zaitcev

He's right, only youtube comments are more unfuriating and inane than your average blog comment.

I never liked the change from calling these "diary entries" to "blogs" anyway.

robogato, wouldn't using libxml2's html-output (e.g. htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat) ensure it outputs <em></em> instead of <em/>?

I'm not sure how that would work with syndicated posts, do they get parsed into an xmlDoc first, then dumped out again?

nutella, no of course you're not the only one - apparently you're not reading Advogato closely enough :) or you'd have seen discussion of the new HTML parser that robogato released, and other cases of truncated/corrupted recentlog.

I usually email the owner of the problem diary entry or email robogato directly. If you read this, robogato, the HTML parser bails out on davidw's newest entry

recentlog seems to stop rendering after the <iframe> in bagder's post, I'm not sure why

badvogato, you say that confusedtrust may have fixed your problem (and I assume that's why you certified them.) If the problem you refer to is the diary entry from sness which broke recentlog, sness fixed that problem because I emailed him and pointed out the problem. confusedtrust is probably a spammer.

You've also certified r7379062259, whose "homepage" is a blog which plagiarises an essay on the history of C, which appears to originate at jakeo.com, He also plagiarises a tutorial on variables in C which possibly originates at cprogramming.com (although that could be plagiarised too). I haven't checked but I'd bet bread that every "blog" is stolen from someone else. That user is almost certainly a spammer, at the least a plagiarist. All spammers must die, be more vigilant!

Everyone else, if you think they're spammers please flag their accounts before badvogato's cerification validates them as real users.

Watch for Spammers, people. Be vigilant. The recentspam problem has been getting worse, I wonder if the spamming tool robogato discovered has been updated to use POST for new accounts.

All spammers must die.

Lots of recentspam today - you know what to do.

I need to learn to stop reading any comments on LWN that mention C++ or I'm going to get facepalm-related RSI.

robogato, unfortunately the diary edit page uses GET, so your changes mean I can't edit diary entries

Edit: editing works again now, like this. Thanks!

It also seems the new parser doesn't recognise <person> or <proj> tags

Edit2: I occasionally still use <proj> tags as a shortcut, but I stopped using <person> tags years ago as I find it more useful to link to a specific diary entry when responding to something in recentlog, so use <a> for a direct link to the diary entry. I think I wrote years ago that a <diary key=33>robogato<diary> would be nice :)

If your project mailing list receives an offer to translate your docs to "Belorussian" (aka Belarusian) from Bohdan Zograf, asking only that you link to his "blog" containing the translation, please ignore it.

His "translations" are always hosted on dodgy sites such as webhostinggeeks dot com, webhostingnet dot com and other free hosting sites, never in the same place twice, and not belonging to any blog, despite the claims in the email.

The text of the translations is always identical to the output of using Google Translate on the original English document (with all the same grammatical errors) so users would be better off just using Google Translate on the original site.

My guess is that Bohdan Zograf (sometimes the emails use other names, and come from a variety of email accounts) is trying to build a link farm with links to it from the websites of several open source projects, for the purposes of spamdexing. I expect that once there are enough of the "translation" pages linked to by unwitting webmasters who are grateful to have a translation of their content, the content will be switched for something nefarious.

You have been warned.

All spammers must die.

karlberry, thanks for the link to It's All Text!, that might be the solution to advogato's infuriatingly small textarea which insists on wrapping things at the worst possible place and breaking URLs across lines