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Re: Dodgy user?

Wes Aday21-Jul-15 1:08

Wes Aday

21-Jul-15 1:08

OriginalGriff wrote:
rep point hunter

Yes and he has posted others as well, http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=questions&mid=8184000[^]

You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.

Plagiarised would be Tip reposted

OriginalGriff20-Jul-15 22:58

OriginalGriff

20-Jul-15 22:58

The tip originally reported this morning is back, without the stolen text (i.e. all of it): http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=177152&aid=1011272[^]
From http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8703747[^]

But...do we trust him to have written the code? I don't - it's just too close to the samples from the pages he ripped the text from.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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Nelek21-Jul-15 9:34

Nelek

21-Jul-15 9:34

gone again

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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From the Moderation queue

Marco Bertschi20-Jul-15 22:22

Marco Bertschi

20-Jul-15 22:22

Muscle gain spammer[^]

"A property doesn't have to be a Property to be a property." - PIEBALDConsult

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Deflinek21-Jul-15 2:55

Deflinek

21-Jul-15 2:55

Gone

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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

Plagiarised would be Tip

OriginalGriff20-Jul-15 21:34

OriginalGriff

20-Jul-15 21:34

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=177146&aid=1011272[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8703747[^]
Is taken from loads of places:
Google 1[^]
Google 2[^]

And at least some of the code is slightly reworked from here: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_carousel_plugin.htm[^]

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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Richard Deeming21-Jul-15 1:23

Richard Deeming

21-Jul-15 1:23

Final kick applied to the user and the article.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Gone

OriginalGriff21-Jul-15 1:46

OriginalGriff

21-Jul-15 1:46

And he just reposted it... since his account is gone, I've deleted the tip as well.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Spam Article

Thanks787220-Jul-15 20:41

Thanks7872

20-Jul-15 20:41

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=177136&aid=1011264[^]

deleted from http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11850648[^]

Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !

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Marco Bertschi20-Jul-15 22:23

Marco Bertschi

20-Jul-15 22:23

"A property doesn't have to be a Property to be a property." - PIEBALDConsult

Health

Thanks787220-Jul-15 20:19

Thanks7872

20-Jul-15 20:19

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11850975[^]

Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !

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Nelek21-Jul-15 9:33

Nelek

21-Jul-15 9:33

gone

M.D.V.

Old site-driving spam

Richard Deeming20-Jul-15 8:27

Richard Deeming

20-Jul-15 8:27

Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/saibabu84[^]
Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=9345192[^]

Three answers from 2013 to questions from 2011, all linking to the same blog. One of them even uses the "tinyurl" service to disguise the link.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

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Nelek21-Jul-15 9:33

Nelek

21-Jul-15 9:33

gone

M.D.V.

Biography spammers

Thomas Daniels20-Jul-15 4:33

Thomas Daniels

20-Jul-15 4:33

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The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.

Re: Biography spammers

ZurdoDev20-Jul-15 4:36

ZurdoDev

20-Jul-15 4:36

Hasn't Chris said that listing your company in your profile is perfectly fine? Confused | :confused:

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: Biography spammers

Thomas Daniels20-Jul-15 4:43

Thomas Daniels

20-Jul-15 4:43

I certainly believe he has, but I don't think it's just listing their company in their profiles in these cases: they are not slightly programming related: sometimes health stuff, sometimes home interior, sometimes money-related spam, and so on.

Of course I can be wrong at some cases, and feel free to point those at me.

The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.

Re: Biography spammers

ZurdoDev20-Jul-15 4:45

ZurdoDev

20-Jul-15 4:45

That's fair. Many were in other languages and I didn't translate them. I see now.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: Biography spammers

OriginalGriff20-Jul-15 5:04

OriginalGriff

20-Jul-15 5:04

Plus, they are reusing the same set of ugly mugshots for different products / companies as well.