Re: Possible abuse or plagiarism ?

Re: Big old spam hunt. Part XXIX - 840 of 919

OriginalGriff16-Feb-15 21:53

OriginalGriff

16-Feb-15 21:53

Spam erased, spammers still unbeheaded.

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

Re: Big old spam hunt. Part XXIX - 840 of 919

Nelek17-Feb-15 10:18

Nelek

17-Feb-15 10:18

time for a second review. I think I have given the 10th to the rest of them.

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.

QA Spammer

SoMad16-Feb-15 18:15

SoMad

16-Feb-15 18:15

This tantric spammer had 30+ QA posts in the moderation queue:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11457115[^]

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

modified 17-Feb-15 0:31am.

Re: QA Spammer

Rajesh waran16-Feb-15 20:16

Rajesh waran

16-Feb-15 20:16

On 6.

~R@JEES#

Re: QA Spammer gone ...

Richard MacCutchan16-Feb-15 21:38

Richard MacCutchan

16-Feb-15 21:38

... to the great Spambin in the sky.

gone

Nelek17-Feb-15 10:16

Nelek

17-Feb-15 10:16

gone

M.D.V.

Possible abuse or plagiarism ?

BillWoodruff16-Feb-15 14:59

BillWoodruff

16-Feb-15 14:59

This 2006 article: [^] lists the author name "CastorTiu," with the statement they are a Microsoft employee: "Currently working as SDE on Failover Clustering team for Microsoft."

Today I downloaded the source-code example from this article: every Form/Control/Assembly is prefaced with the following:

"// Copyright (c) 2006, Gustavo Franco
// Email: gustavo_franco@hotmail.com
// All rights reserved.

// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
// are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

// Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
// this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
// Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
// this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
// and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

// THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
// KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
// PURPOSE. IT CAN BE DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE AS LONG AS THIS HEADER
// REMAINS UNCHANGED."

The article never mentions the name Gustavo Franco, and seems to me be posted as an original work.

thanks, Bill

«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009

Re: Possible abuse or plagiarism ?

P0mpeyBoy17-Feb-15 1:42

P0mpeyBoy

17-Feb-15 1:42

Hi Bill,

I believe Gustavo Franco is castortiu. Just have a look at the blog part on his bio[^]

A google search of Gustavo Franco CastorTiu seems to explicitly link them as one and the same across multiple sites.

Re: Possible abuse or plagiarism ?

Nelek17-Feb-15 10:15

Nelek

17-Feb-15 10:15

After seeing the answer below and the blog in his profile... I agree with the opinion that both are names of the same person.

Would you mind to edit the message to delete the link so there are no wrong reports?

M.D.V.

Spam in B&S

Richard Deeming16-Feb-15 8:15

Richard Deeming

16-Feb-15 8:15

This is a novel way to do it - link to a Reddit thread containing live-streaming spam! D'Oh! | :doh:

Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/5003075/experience-and-present-in-all-cultures.aspx[^]
Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Jordanmartinez[^]

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

Gone

den2k8816-Feb-15 20:17

den2k88

16-Feb-15 20:17

Member and spam gone

Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

Spam would be article

OriginalGriff16-Feb-15 2:51

OriginalGriff

16-Feb-15 2:51

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=159556&aid=876714[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11455657[^]
Is just a link to "her" site.

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

Re: Spam would be article

super16-Feb-15 3:09

super

16-Feb-15 3:09

Im not stereotyping anybody but the member pic and location doesnt match.

cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------
Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

Re: Spam would be article

OriginalGriff16-Feb-15 3:14

OriginalGriff

16-Feb-15 3:14

I didn't think so either! Laugh | :laugh:

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

Site-driving Spam

Richard Deeming16-Feb-15 2:40

Richard Deeming

16-Feb-15 2:40

Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Celin-Smith[^]
Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Messages.aspx?fmid=10150204[^]

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

Re: Site-driving Spam

OriginalGriff16-Feb-15 2:49

OriginalGriff

16-Feb-15 2:49

I've deleted both the direct spam, and the indirect-via-the-sig spam messages (the later can be allowed according to Chris but it's the same place as his direct spam, so I deleted it as well).

He needs further kicks.

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

spam in QA

Deepu S Nair16-Feb-15 1:10

Deepu S Nair

16-Feb-15 1:10

spammer

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11455520[^

Messages

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=questions&mid=11455520[^]

Re: spam in QA

Rajesh waran16-Feb-15 20:21

Rajesh waran

16-Feb-15 20:21

Gone

~R@JEES#

Spam

Thomas Daniels16-Feb-15 0:52

Thomas Daniels

16-Feb-15 0:52

This member: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10846701[^]
Messages: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Messages.aspx?fmid=10846701[^]
The member has 2 messages promoting the same product.

I also found this answer[^] by this user[^], promoting the same product.

Both the messages and the answer smell like spam.

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

Plagiarized paragraph in article in moderation queue

Thomas Daniels15-Feb-15 22:39

Thomas Daniels

15-Feb-15 22:39

Article: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=159514&aid=875699[^]
The "Background" paragraph is plagiarized from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms711472%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^]

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

In Java answer and ...

Richard MacCutchan15-Feb-15 22:00

Richard MacCutchan

15-Feb-15 22:00

Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11454534[^], adding an ad link in the answer.

[edit]
And http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11454811[^] with post in Free Tools.
[/edit]

Gone

Tom Deketelaere16-Feb-15 4:09

Tom Deketelaere

16-Feb-15 4:09

Both gone

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den2k8815-Feb-15 21:18

den2k88

15-Feb-15 21:18

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Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

modified 16-Feb-15 8:10am.

Re: Big old spam hunt. Part XXVIII - 810 of 919

OriginalGriff15-Feb-15 21:37

OriginalGriff

15-Feb-15 21:37

Spam toasted to a crisp, spammers require immolation

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

Almost gone

Richard Deeming16-Feb-15 1:54

Richard Deeming

16-Feb-15 1:54

This[^] is the only survivor, currently on 9.

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

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.

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