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Spammer from moderation queue (Tam Blogs)

7-Jan-21 3:40

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OriginalGriff6-Jan-21 22:29

Re: Spammer from moderation queue (Tam Blogs) - gone

6-Jan-21 22:29

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Greg Utas7-Jan-21 3:39

Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

7-Jan-21 3:39

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OriginalGriff6-Jan-21 22:18

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

6-Jan-21 22:18

Nelek6-Jan-21 22:31

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

6-Jan-21 22:31

Since it is not the first time I see @Ralf_Meier reporting an article in moderation but reports of the account not matching... I suppose he doesn't know about this forum and the report account of spammers / abusers.

Time to welcome reinforcements Smile | :)

M.D.V.

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OriginalGriff6-Jan-21 22:42

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

6-Jan-21 22:42

That's why I tag 'em here, even if they have existing reports - the spam disappears before the spammer does!

Nelek6-Jan-21 23:06

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

6-Jan-21 23:06

mmm... didn't you have your Java | [Coffee]

yet?

M.D.V.

Ralf Meier6-Jan-21 23:42

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

6-Jan-21 23:42

I'm sorry ... but I don't understand what you mean ...
Was something what I have done not correct ? For me all those "Articles" are/were complete Spam.

CHill607-Jan-21 2:20

CHill60

7-Jan-21 2:20

Completely agree! Did you also report the member separately though?

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

Ralf Meier7-Jan-21 2:25

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

7-Jan-21 2:25

No ... until now not really ...
I supposed that this is also an automatic function ...

CHill607-Jan-21 2:48

CHill60

7-Jan-21 2:48

Unfortunately not - I suppose it does give a member a breathing opportunity if they get "told off" once instead of being booted out straight way

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

Ralf Meier7-Jan-21 2:57

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

7-Jan-21 2:57

OK ... lesson learned ... Wink | ;)

In another Forum (the German SPS-Forum) I am a Moderator - there the User gives a Notification to the Moderators and after that they decide the further steps. Sometimes a User will be temporarely banned - sometimes he is deleted (depends on the Situation). Thats the reason why I supposed that my "Notification" does the same ...

Nelek7-Jan-21 5:37

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

7-Jan-21 5:37

No, no... you didn't do anything wrong. Just missed one more action: Report the user.
That's exactly why I "summoned" you here, so you can see how we work against the spammers, because I have seen your name in the reports list several times and I suppose you would help us fighting them.

Here in CP things work so:
- Articles, tips, blogs, Questions, Answers, Messages, Comments... All can be reported using the red flag (as you already know). If enough people report it, then it gets nuked.
Right now the numbers are: 3 reports for the Q&A, 5 reports for a forum message or an article / tip / blog, 10 reports for an user.

- This forum is a help place, where once you spot a spam, you can report it (links to offending items and to the offender in the body, name of the user in the subject to avoid repetitions). This way other helpers have it easier to hit the flag and nuke the spammers before they flood the site.

- If there is a blatant spam article, the user should be reported inmediately too. If there are a / some "suspicious" links in an article, we usually report the item only, not the author. We have some words with him / her and give a 2nd chance (sadly it doesn't work out so much as we would like to)

- Reportable offenses:
Spam --- Trying to advertise something for free (like the electrodomestics wave before). Easy to spot.
Site Driving --- trying to get clicks in another site (maybe the own Blog). Usually people posting links to not know resources to old questions.
Plagiarism --- a big NO-GO. There is a FAQ item[^] specially for it
Abuse --- We are (almost) all adults and (hopefully) professionals, so everything that goes beyond the common sense red line is not desired. These limits are difficult to define because they can be very subjective, but really obvious offenders are to be punished.

To make it easier for the other volunteers, we put the name of the user in the subject to avoid repetitions or having to click in every message to see if he was already reported.
Once a user has been nuked, then we edit (if own messages or right to do it) the message or answer it adding "gone" to the subject (as you can see below).

Do not hesitate to contact us (users in this forum) if you have any other question. But don't forget that we are just normal users, some of us (protectors) with some special rights.
@Sean-Ewington is our usual CP-Staff backup to take hard decissions. @Chris-Maunder (CP co-founder) comes by too and has the last word in difficult cases.

I hope I could explain it easily (I tend to be a bit caotic in long messages) and that you continue coming and helping us fight those buggers.

M.D.V.

Ralf Meier7-Jan-21 6:38

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy)

7-Jan-21 6:38

Hi Nelek,
thanks a lot for taking the time to create this very good explaination ...
As you have seen (I hope so) I'm interested to keep this Forum clean and serious ...

Of course ... I have realized that sometimes a Spamer (like this one) creates a complete serious of "Articles". In the other Forum I belong to I by myself or one of the other Moderators see this and act as necessary - normally when got a notification.
So in future I will write it also here if I detect one and see that there is no entry for "him" in this sub-Forum. Appologies for the past ...

Cheers
Ralf

Nelek7-Jan-21 8:45

Re: Spam would be articles (Loads of Washing machine repairs, tapasvireddy) - gone

7-Jan-21 8:45

Ralf Meier wrote:
thanks a lot for taking the time to create this very good explaination ...

You are welcome

Ralf Meier wrote:
As you have seen (I hope so) I'm interested to keep this Forum clean and serious ...

That's why I "summoned" you here and explained how we do it.

Ralf Meier wrote:
n the other Forum I belong to I by myself or one of the other Moderators see this and act as necessary - normally when got a notification.

We work as a group here, almost all actions of the site are "community" actions.

Ralf Meier wrote:
Appologies for the past ...

No worries.

By the way... the forum is english, but I live in Germany, so if it is easier for you, you can use the "email" widget of the messages and write me in german

M.D.V.

Greg Utas7-Jan-21 3:39

Spam would be projects? ("A sample on Action based Role and Authorization", jewelmir)

7-Jan-21 3:39

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OriginalGriff6-Jan-21 21:44

Re: Spam would be projects? ("A sample on Action based Role and Authorization", jewelmir)

6-Jan-21 21:44

A sample on Action based Role and Authorization[^]
jewelmir - Professional Profile[^]
The project has no info at all, he's done nothing here for the last three years, this is his first ever post, his name is a link, the "website" is a link, and he's pretty insistent that it goes through - it's been rejected once today already ... I just don't like it and it smells of the links being the purpose.

Your thoughts?

[edit]
He has another too: SPA-using-ASP.NET-MVC-5-Entity-Framework-6-Code-First-Migration-Partia-VIEW-AJAX[^] - same lack of useful info, same links.
[/edit]

Nelek6-Jan-21 22:28

Spammer from moderation queue (Member 15039290)

6-Jan-21 22:28

For me, he is trying to promote himself. I went for spam and spammer.

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff6-Jan-21 11:05

Re: Spammer from moderation queue (Member 15039290) - Gone

6-Jan-21 11:05

Pushing his dev company to a 2019 question: Member 15039290 - Professional Profile[^]

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6-Jan-21 11:58

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Spammer from moderation queue (Member 15026668)

OriginalGriff6-Jan-21 6:22

Re: Spammer from moderation queue (Member 15026668) - gone

6-Jan-21 6:22

Sandwich panels: Member 15026668 - Professional Profile[^]

Greg Utas6-Jan-21 6:44

Long-lived site-driving spammer (Member 10349279)

6-Jan-21 6:44

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Richard Deeming6-Jan-21 4:29

Richard Deeming

6-Jan-21 4:29

Spammer: Member 10349279 - Professional Profile[^]
Spam: Member questions & answers[^]
Spam: Latest Messages[^]

Four QA solutions and one message since 2013, all linking to the same site (blazemeter DOT com).

The latest solution employs hidden links to make it less obvious.

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Re: Long-lived site-driving spammer (Member 10349279) - member gone, but not message

Greg Utas6-Jan-21 6:44