Spammer in Q&A - CodeProject

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Sascha Lefèvre4-Jul-15 3:08

Sascha Lefèvre

4-Jul-15 3:08

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Spammer from moderation queue

OriginalGriff3-Jul-15 21:32

OriginalGriff

3-Jul-15 21:32

Baba's back: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11812670[^]

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Spammer in Design & Architecture

Richard MacCutchan3-Jul-15 21:25

Richard MacCutchan

3-Jul-15 21:25

Korean spam from http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11812715[^].

Re: Spammer in Design & Architecture

OriginalGriff3-Jul-15 21:33

OriginalGriff

3-Jul-15 21:33

(S)he also had a go at QA, but was caught by moderation.
I've cleaned up after them.

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Richard Deeming6-Jul-15 3:40

Richard Deeming

6-Jul-15 3:40

10th kick applied.

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- Homer

OmmiJuriya is a spammer

PIEBALDconsult3-Jul-15 19:56

PIEBALDconsult

3-Jul-15 19:56

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11812557[^]

Does Pure Testo Xplode Have Any Side Effects?[^]

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Sascha Lefèvre4-Jul-15 3:07

Sascha Lefèvre

4-Jul-15 3:07

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Spammer in Q&A

User 592413-Jul-15 15:59

User 59241

3-Jul-15 15:59

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11812337[^]

Spam: How to Pick Out Supplements for Gaining Muscle Mass[^]

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

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Sascha Lefèvre4-Jul-15 3:07

Sascha Lefèvre

4-Jul-15 3:07

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Spam would be article?

OriginalGriff3-Jul-15 8:14

OriginalGriff

3-Jul-15 8:14

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=175225&aid=1006522[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Capuchin[^]
He joined today, it's his one post, and it's get several links to the same site: onthe.io which is a cloud service company.
It's got text like:
"We decided to check which format – JPEG-XR or WebP – is a better image compressor. To do this we collected JPEG-images from DZone publications within the last month and compressed them one by one with JPEG-XR and WebP algorithms. We did it with this and this tool."
Where the two thises are links to the same site again.

I think it's site driving? Anyone else?

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Re: Spam would be article?

Brisingr Aerowing3-Jul-15 8:23

Brisingr Aerowing

3-Jul-15 8:23

I'd say tinned meat.

Time for a kickin'!

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

Re: Spam would be article? [Gone]

Tom Deketelaere3-Jul-15 13:14

Tom Deketelaere

3-Jul-15 13:14

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Dave Kreskowiak3-Jul-15 7:55

Dave Kreskowiak

3-Jul-15 7:55

Spammer[^]

Payload[^]

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject

Click this: Asking questions is a skill.
Seriously, do it.

Dave Kreskowiak

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Sascha Lefèvre4-Jul-15 3:07

Sascha Lefèvre

4-Jul-15 3:07

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[Gone:] Spam would be article (scholar learning)

Jochen Arndt3-Jul-15 3:05

Jochen Arndt

3-Jul-15 3:05

Article: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=175212&aid=1006494[^]
User: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11807784[^]

modified 3-Jul-15 9:36am.

Plagiarism in moderation queue

Wendelius3-Jul-15 1:48

Wendelius

3-Jul-15 1:48

This[^] by this[^] is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_stack[^]

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Sascha Lefèvre3-Jul-15 5:06

Sascha Lefèvre

3-Jul-15 5:06

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Spammer from moderation queue

OriginalGriff3-Jul-15 1:29

OriginalGriff

3-Jul-15 1:29

Training links, from this: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11811186[^]
He has one other that got through, I've deleted that.

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Sascha Lefèvre3-Jul-15 5:06

Sascha Lefèvre

3-Jul-15 5:06

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Opinions please

Wendelius3-Jul-15 0:18

Wendelius

3-Jul-15 0:18

What's your opinion on this article SQL Server's Mathematical Functions[^].

If you have a look at the documentation of these function in MSDN it seems that this article is basically gathered by copying from individual explanations in MSDN: Mathematical Functions (Transact-SQL)[^]

But again, what is your opinion?

Re: Opinions please

phil.o3-Jul-15 0:32

phil.o

3-Jul-15 0:32

I checked several functions and, for the post part, it is only a direct copy/paste of the MSDN documentation, with some minor arrangements.
But this does not bring any added value to the core documentation.

while (true) {
   continue;
}

Re: Opinions please: Plagiarism. Lots of, probably.

OriginalGriff3-Jul-15 0:50

OriginalGriff

3-Jul-15 0:50

I picked one at random (LOG10) and compared it.

He's added one sentence, and the rest is just copy and paste, including the example.
Yes, he has referenced where he copied it from, but without the copied material there is nothing useful left.

That's plagiarism.
If I saw that in the moderation queue today, I'd report it here.

And a very quick check on another of his articles (again, picked at random): SQL Server's FORMAT() function[^] come up with all the relevant detail copied from MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110).aspx[^]
OK, the MSDN article is talking about "formatting in .NET" and his is "formatting in SQL", but I'd be prepared to bet a small sum that the MSDN Transact-SQL documentation also contains the same text somewhere. In fact, the MSDN FORMAT descriptoin links to "Formatting Types in the .NET Framework"[^] - which is the header page for the one holding the table of info in his article.

So I'd say "Serial Plagiarist" and start kicking.
This is the boy: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=3175840[^]

[edit]
And here is his article list: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/Shemeer-NS#articles[^]
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modified 3-Jul-15 11:22am.

Re: Opinions please: Plagiarism. Lots of, probably.

Wendelius3-Jul-15 0:54

Wendelius

3-Jul-15 0:54

That's what I was afraid... Sigh | :sigh:

Thanks for the confirmation!

Re: Opinions please: Plagiarism. Lots of, probably.

Sascha Lefèvre3-Jul-15 5:05

Sascha Lefèvre

3-Jul-15 5:05

Approved articles stay published even if the author gets kicked, right? So probably all of his articles should be checked for plagiarism and be removed if they are !?

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Re: Opinions please: Plagiarism. Lots of, probably.

OriginalGriff3-Jul-15 5:23

OriginalGriff

3-Jul-15 5:23

Damnit! Yes, you're probably right.
All 29 of them... Sigh | :sigh:

I've added the article list to my post so we can find it even when he is gone, and I'll see what I can see. Just wish it didn't take so long to do each one...

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