Spam and Abuse Watch

Rajesh waran5-Mar-15 17:49

5-Mar-15 17:49

Final Kick applied.

~R@JEES#

Spam

Richard Deeming5-Mar-15 5:51

5-Mar-15 5:51

Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=5587375[^]
Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/jiestradah[^]

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

Re: Spam-Gone

Rajesh waran5-Mar-15 17:47

5-Mar-15 17:47

Gone

~R@JEES#

Site-driving Spam

Richard Deeming5-Mar-15 4:41

5-Mar-15 4:41

Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Roy-Ben-Shabat[^]
Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=6646391[^]

Resurrecting old questions to post links to his own product.

"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

Pete O'Hanlon5-Mar-15 5:00

Pete O'Hanlon

5-Mar-15 5:00

QA answers deleted. Keep on kicking.

Rajesh waran5-Mar-15 17:47

Stealing commercial controls

5-Mar-15 17:47

Gone

~R@JEES#

Richard Deeming5-Mar-15 1:12

Re: Stealing commercial controls

5-Mar-15 1:12

This user[^] has resurrected a three-year-old question[^] to post a link to their StackOverflow answer[^] explaining how to hide the "demo" indicator on an unlicensed copy of DayPilot Pro.

I don't think we want to encourage people to steal from @Dan-Letecky!

Anyone with a StackOverflow account should report the answer there as well. There are two other very similar answers to the same question which should also be repeated.

Edit: The QA answer has gone, but the SO answer is still there.

Edit 2: Apparently, SO doesn't care about members helping each other to steal other people's work.
All of my reports have been declined with "flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer". Dead | X|

Edit 3: And now all three SO answers have been deleted, along with the question.

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

modified 5-Mar-15 9:37am.

Rajesh waran5-Mar-15 1:19

5-Mar-15 1:19

Solution Deleted Member on the Process Smile | :)

~R@JEES#

den2k885-Mar-15 2:13

den2k88

5-Mar-15 2:13

Gone

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Spam

Richard Deeming5-Mar-15 0:47

5-Mar-15 0:47

Spam: gsm comm library concatenat multipart sms[^] (Solution #4)
Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/cfdttttttttttttt[^]

NB: The spam is Solution #4; the question and the other solutions are NOT spam!

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

Re: Spam

Rajesh waran5-Mar-15 1:04

Plagiarised would be article.

5-Mar-15 1:04

Spam deleted. Member on 3 need more kicks

~R@JEES#

gone

Nelek6-Mar-15 8:35

Nelek

6-Mar-15 8:35

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.

OriginalGriff4-Mar-15 23:38

OriginalGriff

4-Mar-15 23:38

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=161888&aid=883146[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11001738[^]
Looks plagiarised - one look and you'll know what I mean - but it appears to be from a variety of sources, and the only section I can find exactly is the last paragraph. And I can;t tell you exactly where that was copied form, as it's in several places: Google[^]
I'd suspect that this is all copied from one website, but I'm not sure which.

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

Richard MacCutchan4-Mar-15 23:50

Richard MacCutchan

4-Mar-15 23:50

OP has been around for a while. Do you think we should just warn him off?

OriginalGriff5-Mar-15 0:00

OriginalGriff

5-Mar-15 0:00

Probably - but I didn't want to just point out what showed he had copied it and give him clues to make it look "more original" next time.

And if it hadn't been his first post after six months here, it'd be easier...

I dunno. It's a pretty blatant copy'n'paste job from somewhere.
Is it better to have him ask nicely for his account back and promise to behave in future? Six months is long enough to get the idea we don't like plagiarism...

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

Richard MacCutchan5-Mar-15 0:08

Richard MacCutchan

5-Mar-15 0:08

I'll go with that; let the kicking begin.

Rajesh waran5-Mar-15 1:05

5-Mar-15 1:05

Member is waiting for final Kick.

~R@JEES#

gone

Nelek6-Mar-15 8:36

Nelek

6-Mar-15 8:36

gone

M.D.V.

QA Spam, sort of

manchanx4-Mar-15 11:13

manchanx

4-Mar-15 11:13

What Steps Should I Follow In Doing Bank Simulation With Vb.Net[^]

Content: "kgjkghfvfgffscxvcbnmmkuybgfvbnmjklhhnjgkhfbghvvvb"

Re: QA Spam, sort of

OriginalGriff4-Mar-15 19:42

OriginalGriff

4-Mar-15 19:42

It's not spam - that's advertising or site driving without permission - but it is a form of abuse, if repeated.

Chances are that he figured he'd written all he needed to in the question subject, and couldn't be bothered to add any details in the actual question. He's brand new to the site, so it's likely he doesn't know how to ask a question at all. I'd have told him off, gently, and asked for clarification instead of closing the question. But we are all different!

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

Site-driving Spam

Richard Deeming4-Mar-15 3:06

Re: Site-driving Spam - all gone

4-Mar-15 3:06

Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/gerardtaylor86[^]
Messages: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Messages.aspx?fmid=10960009[^]
Questions: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=questions&mid=10960009[^]
Answers: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=10960009[^]

All containing links to the same commercial product, which I'm sure we've had spam from previously.

I'm also suspicious that this question[^] could be a setup for the spam answer, although it took nearly three months for the payload to arrive.

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

CHill604-Mar-15 5:05

CHill60

4-Mar-15 5:05

final kick duly delivered

... another QA spammer

hypermellow4-Mar-15 1:16

hypermellow

4-Mar-15 1:16

spam[^]mer[^]