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User 592419-Jan-19 21:40

9-Jan-19 21:40

Top Steps to Develop Mobile App Successfully[^]

from: Amit TiwariJg - Professional Profile[^]

[edit]Spammer link added - OriginalGriff[/edit]

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Re: Spam article: mobile apps - Gone

Richard Deeming10-Jan-19 0:22

Richard Deeming

10-Jan-19 0:22

Spammer terminated.

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Sitedriver (Member 14113650) - gone

Jörgen Andersson9-Jan-19 20:16

Jörgen Andersson

9-Jan-19 20:16

Member 14113650 - Professional Profile[^]
Clicked the wrong button, so the message needs removal as well: Connect, Send and Receive data from web page to control PC/RaspberryPi[^]

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

modified 1-Mar-19 17:01pm.

Re: Sitedriver (Member 14113650)

OriginalGriff9-Jan-19 21:14

OriginalGriff

9-Jan-19 21:14

Final kick delivered to message, and closed message deleted.
Spammer on 4

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Spam would be article ("Quick Tips for Securing Your Express/NodeJs Application", Member 14080218) - gone

OriginalGriff9-Jan-19 19:56

OriginalGriff

9-Jan-19 19:56

This: Quick Tips for Securing Your Express/NodeJs Application[^]
From this: Member 14080218 - Professional Profile[^]
About half way down is the link. Search for

Quote:
Sanitize and type check the URL parameters before they reach your code to prevent parameter pollution. I've covered this topic much better in my other article

And it goes to an article by the

Quote on Storylens:
Founder of Storylens and Redmonark.

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modified 14-Jan-19 1:54am.

Re: Spam would be article ("Quick Tips for Securing Your Express/NodeJs Application", Member 14080218) - gone

Richard Deeming10-Jan-19 0:27

Richard Deeming

10-Jan-19 0:27

The author is a former plagiarist:
My account was deactivated. How do I get it back?[^]

It's probably worth checking out his other article too, which seems to have quite a few external links:
Convolutional Neural Networks and Their Visualization Using Keras[^]

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modified 14-Jan-19 1:54am.

Re: Spam would be article ("Quick Tips for Securing Your Express/NodeJs Application", Member 14080218)

OriginalGriff10-Jan-19 0:39

OriginalGriff

10-Jan-19 0:39

That looks plagiarised as well, but he hid it better this time.
Have a look here: What exactly does CNN see? – Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine[^]
And compare "To understand how does the CNN work" (original) and "Before we understand what a CNN is" (on CP) - oh, aren't those pictures similar!

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Re: Spam would be article ("Quick Tips for Securing Your Express/NodeJs Application", Member 14080218) - gone

Nelek13-Jan-19 19:55

Nelek

13-Jan-19 19:55

Richard Deeming wrote:
It's probably worth checking out his other article too, which seems to have quite a few external links:

Since account was gone, this message so far down, that many people won't have a look and the article was on #4... I have just deleted it.

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
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Spam articles (Võ Thành Tiến) - gone

Wendelius9-Jan-19 17:12

Wendelius

9-Jan-19 17:12

Mức giá thành ...
and Mức giá thành ...

from Võ Thành Tiến - Professional Profile

modified 14-Jan-19 1:55am.

Plagiarised would be article ("The Bitwise operators supported by C# are listed in the following table.", Member 11847088) - gone

OriginalGriff9-Jan-19 0:25

OriginalGriff

9-Jan-19 0:25

This: The Bitwise operators supported by C# are listed in the following table.[^]
From this: Member 11847088 - Professional Profile[^]
Is copied from ... a 1998 document on C ... Bitwise operations[^]
Not just the text, even the numbers used in the examples are the same ... Sigh | :sigh:

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modified 14-Jan-19 1:55am.

Spammer from moderation - thanleouth

Richard MacCutchan8-Jan-19 22:21

Richard MacCutchan

8-Jan-19 22:21

Online casino: thanleouth - Professional Profile[^]

Gone

Bryian Tan9-Jan-19 15:11

Bryian Tan

9-Jan-19 15:11

Bryian Tan

Spammer from moderation queue (Member 14112423) - Gone

OriginalGriff8-Jan-19 20:03

OriginalGriff

8-Jan-19 20:03

Baba again, I think: "Most Powerful Aghor in Kolkata"
Member 14112423 - Professional Profile[^]

Definitely wants us to know his phone number though.

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modified 9-Jan-19 12:24pm.

Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

OriginalGriff8-Jan-19 19:32

OriginalGriff

8-Jan-19 19:32

He's been here a long time, but...
This: Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database[^]
From this: Vivek Johari - Professional Profile[^]
Check out the collection of links at the bottom - all to his blog / his youtube / ...

His other three 2018 articles are also very link heavy: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/Vivek-Johari#Article[^] - the 2010 one looks OK.

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Re: Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

Maciej Los8-Jan-19 20:28

Maciej Los

8-Jan-19 20:28

Is it wrong to post links to own site?
I do not see such of rule in CP article writing FAQ.
On the other hand, there's a place on CP to post a technical blog. What you think about this?

Re: Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

OriginalGriff8-Jan-19 21:14

OriginalGriff

8-Jan-19 21:14

Yeah, precisely. That's a lot of links he has there, and it's all his recent stuff.

I'm in two minds - should we summon the Seanster?

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Re: Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

Richard Deeming9-Jan-19 8:08

Richard Deeming

9-Jan-19 8:08

Looking at the source, I suspect this started out as a blog:

<link rel="canonical" href="http%3a%2f%2fwww.techmixing.com%2f2019%2f01%2fpoint-in-time-restore-for-azure-sql-database.html" />

I think I vaguely recall seeing it in the moderation queue yesterday as a blog rather than an article.

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Re: Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

Nelek13-Jan-19 20:00

Nelek

13-Jan-19 20:00

Maciej Los wrote:
On the other hand, there's a place on CP to post a technical blog. What you think about this?

And that's why... if it is a blog / came as blog on the first time (and got changed to article due to the bug I describe below), then I don't report it.

If its first version is an article and is full of links... I do report it. (Sean's confirmation on this one)

M.D.V.

Re: Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

Nelek13-Jan-19 19:59

Nelek

13-Jan-19 19:59

There is an active and annoying bug

If the member posts a blog but a CP Editor modifies it, it will get posted as article and then it is not possible to change it back to the type Blog.

So yes... I would summon @Sean-Ewington and let him check and wipe the reports / reinstate something if needed

M.D.V.

Re: Spam would be article? ("Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database", Vivek Johari)

Sean Ewington14-Jan-19 5:20

Sean Ewington

14-Jan-19 5:20

That's funny. I removed links from another one of this guy's posts the other day to avoid this exact scenario. Should have checked the other posts.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
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Spammer from QA [Member 14111866]

Maciej Los8-Jan-19 5:31

Maciej Los

8-Jan-19 5:31

First "answer": Insert multiple checked values from datagridview into SQL server database

From: Member 14111866 - Professional Profile

Re: Spammer from QA [Member 14111866] - not spam.

OriginalGriff8-Jan-19 5:42

OriginalGriff

8-Jan-19 5:42

Possibly abuse, but most likely it's confusion / laziness.

I'd suspect a student trying to get his homework done who doesn't understand the difference between "questions" and "answers". I'll have a word ...

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