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Member got the last invitation and has abandoned the room
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's better.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Spammer still alive
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=7008112[^]
Every answer posted to QA seems to be a redirect to his own blog - he's reposted a couple of times too. The ones I've looked at don't seem to add much to the solutions already posted from other contributors
[EDIT] - Actually now I'm sure ... over 40 "solutions" posted in the last hour - all links to his own site and most of them to questions over a year old. Some poor s*d's bound to have posted a comment as a solution to his own question and now disappeared off the list into oblivion!
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My word - he was a busy little bunny, wasn't he!
Account gone, and I manually cleared up all 68 spam "answers" - all traces of him are now removed.
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Thanks! I did find some poor so-and-so who'd answered his own question and had been muscled off the list by this guy.
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*chuckling* ... at least his swansong made him number 2 on the list of "Top Experts in 24 Hours" 
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All gone
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Errm, it says Tip/Trick at the side.
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It elephanting didn't when I looked! 
It may have been resubmitted, or re-edited.
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Final kick applied
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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After the last user[^] was shown the door, there's now a new user[^] posting links[^] to articles hosted by Software Development Times.
This user isn't as obviously connected to SDT as the last one. However, in his three months of membership, his sole contribution has been to post two messages in the Insider News forum linking to SDT articles.
Does anyone else think this is suspicious?
Both messages have now been updated to link to the original story, removing the reference to SDT. Panic over! 
And now they're completely gone, as is the user.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 21-Nov-13 12:59pm.
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 Good catch. It's actually not all in one day. If you look at the Reputation tab and the Comments[^], the account goes back to at least October 28. That's still a lot of points in about 3 weeks.
If you take a closer look at the Comments, the name changed a couple of times. I wonder if there is a bug in the system where the "Member since ....." information on the profile page resets when you change the name. Either that or the account was closed and reopened or something like that.
I think this is one for the hamsters to dig into, so I am going to leave it alone.
[EDIT]
The more I dig into this, the more I have to agree with you. It looks quite shady and I have reported the 3 accounts.
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Soren Madsen
modified 21-Nov-13 7:23am.
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SoMad wrote: If you look at the Reputation tab and the Comments[^], the account goes back to at least October 28
I also looked through comments and reputation tab as well but got confused because of Member since.....
Whatever it is,looks suspicious to me.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Yes. Why not to consider this as Abuse?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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