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Well done!
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Removed message!
modified 14-Jul-15 14:32pm.
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Is it spam or plagiarism? Or plagiarised spam?
"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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It's not plagiarism: the same author for both, if you look at the left hand side of the other site page.
And I'm not convinced it's spam - it's open source, and includes the source code in a download apparently, although the downloads should be here not there.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I see, thank you for clarifying that for me.
Well the problem I had with it is that is a pure copy, word to word.
I see it as nothing more than an attempt to post a link, which is the only thing that was added from the original content.
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Mario Z wrote: it is that is a pure copy, word to word.
That is allowed - you can post an article in several places, provided it's yours to post.
OK - it's the blurb from their website, but it's technical blurb for a free product, and while the downloads should be here rather than there, I don't have a problem with it.
Probably would have been better posted as a blog rather than an article, perhaps.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
That is allowed ...
Noted, also again thanks for clarification.
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I have built an application to catch those: it searches the first 30 (or whatever number of) pages of Who's Who (sorted by Member ID Descending) and gives me all users with an edited biography, for a manual check afterwards. The results are fairly accurate: out of the 15 members it gave me, 11 are clear spammers, 2 are non-spammers and about the 2 others, I'm not sure (see the end of this message).
The 11 spammers
With spammy biography text and a spammy Homepage link.
Spammer 1[^]
Spammer 2[^]
Spammer 3[^]
Spammer 4[^]
Spammer 5[^]
Spammer 6[^]
Spammer 7[^]
Spammer 8[^]
Spammer 9[^]
Spammer 10[^]
Spammer 11[^]
The 2 cases that I wasn't sure about
Their biography only consists of a website link which they also have as Homepage link, but as the site names don't contain a spam keyword that we've seen here before, I wasn't sure about those. Please take a look.
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Madelineqlg[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Adrienogi[^]
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Checking the two "unsure" cases with Fiddler:
ProgramFOX wrote: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Madelineqlg[^]
Spam. Appears to be a Polish site selling scented bin bags.
ProgramFOX wrote: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Adrienogi[^]
Spam. A site which simply wraps another site in an <iframe>. The wrapped site is a Polish blog "about making money" - nothing more than the traditional "get rich quick" scam.
"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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So my name has been spoken, and so I appear.
We appreciate a heads up on this one. Kevin is always careful about looking out for duped votes, but he'll be extra diligent on this one. No false winners will be awarded.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Well I have given my vote to that article (among other articles)... and I am not puppet 
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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