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Re: Plagiarised / site-driving would-be blog

11-Jul-17 2:39

I'm starting to wonder whether his account has been hacked. He doesn't seem to have been active since 2015, other than posts on his "End Your If" blog. All of the plagiarised posts seem to come from the "Node.js recipies" feed: Technical Blog Feeds[^]

But if he hasn't been hacked, then everything he's ever posted has to be under suspicion.

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Nelek11-Jul-17 2:55

Nelek

11-Jul-17 2:55

Richard Deeming wrote:
then everything he's ever posted has to be under suspicion.

Yeah, that's what I am fearing, and why I involved Sean

M.D.V.

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Richard Deeming11-Jul-17 1:17

Re: Spam would-be article (Car insurance)

11-Jul-17 1:17

Spam: Car Insurance[^]
Spammer: Frank Kshirsagar - Professional Profile[^]

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OriginalGriff11-Jul-17 1:21

Spammer from moderation queue (Member 13303930)

11-Jul-17 1:21

Damn! If he'd been a week earlier, I could have ignored him better - I just arranged my next years insurance... Sigh | :sigh:

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11-Jul-17 0:10

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koolprasad200311-Jul-17 2:14

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11-Jul-17 2:14

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Spam would be articles

OriginalGriff11-Jul-17 0:04

Plagiarist: Prashant M Bansal

11-Jul-17 0:04

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koolprasad200311-Jul-17 2:14

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11-Jul-17 2:14

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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Richard MacCutchan10-Jul-17 21:51

Richard MacCutchan

10-Jul-17 21:51

Pending article: SharePoint URL Tokens[^]
A straight copy and paste from: URL strings and tokens in apps for SharePoint | SharePoint Simply[^]
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koolprasad200311-Jul-17 2:11

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11-Jul-17 2:11

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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

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OriginalGriff10-Jul-17 21:41

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10-Jul-17 21:41

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OriginalGriff10-Jul-17 20:11

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Richard Deeming11-Jul-17 1:32

Plagiarized would be blogs - Please verify

11-Jul-17 1:32

Spammer terminated.

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Bryian Tan10-Jul-17 15:18

Bryian Tan

10-Jul-17 15:18

The contents was posted by the original author on 2010, look like the current author Jamie Munro - Professional Profile[^] copied it into his blog words by words. Someone please verify it. I could be wrong

Is it possible in .NET, using C#, to achieve event based asynchronous pattern without multithreading?[^]
Source:
Is it possible in .NET, using C#, to achieve event based asynchronous pattern without multithreading? - Stack Overflow[^]

How to create a streaming API with NodeJS[^]

Source:
javascript - How to create a streaming API with NodeJS - Stack Overflow[^]

Bryian Tan

Wendelius10-Jul-17 18:46

Wendelius

10-Jul-17 18:46

Similar case like this pending post which is basically copied from javascript - Data store for capturing votes & aggregating them - Stack Overflow

Even though references are mentioned, the content is almost identical.

From CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ

CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ:
Not Enough Original Content

While we can appreciate that there are only so many ways to define things and that in your article you may require a number of definitions in order to help the reader understand a concept, there is a limit to the amount of references you can use in an article before you have committed plagiarism. As a rule of thumb, allow yourself no more than three references or instances of copied / modified text. 90% of the content must be your own, and you should aim for 100%.

Nelek10-Jul-17 19:09

Nelek

10-Jul-17 19:09

I agree with you and already reported him, but I would say @Sean-Ewington should have a look on it.
If found guilty, there is a lot to check and to clean up

M.D.V.

Wendelius10-Jul-17 19:46

Wendelius

10-Jul-17 19:46

Didn't report the user yet since I wanted to hear the result first. Best to wait for Sean Smile | :)

Definitely Site Driving

Pete O'Hanlon10-Jul-17 20:48

Pete O'Hanlon

10-Jul-17 20:48

Whether or not it's plagiarised, it is site driving; and we remove site driving articles as they are spam.

This space for rent

Sean Ewington11-Jul-17 5:20

Sean Ewington

11-Jul-17 5:20

All right. I've done a quick pass over his work. I don't think he's a plagiarist in the strictest sense. In his old blogs at best I could find one code snippet that was reused. The other stuff I found was debatable.

What's he's basically doing is repurposing content for his blog. He can do that on his blog, but it's not what we're looking for on CodeProject. I've removed those types of entries.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

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Bryian Tan11-Jul-17 6:18

Bryian Tan

11-Jul-17 6:18

Thank you for looking into it.

Bryian Tan

Richard Deeming10-Jul-17 6:39

Spammer from moderation queue (EmailSupportCompany)

10-Jul-17 6:39

Member 13294913 - Professional Profile[^] has decided to resurrect a dubious question from 2013 with two new solutions: one completely blank, and the other containing the insightful comment, "Idk".

Member questions & answers[^]

A fourth answer to the same question:

crypter fud with vb.net[^]:
kek use google n00b.
MORE CONTENT MORE CONTENT MORE CONTENT ...

Quickly followed by a fifth:

crypter fud with vb.net[^]:
protip: if you really need help just GOOGLE IT. there's already millions of open-source crypters on the web, please do not post useless threads.

NB: His previous "solution"[^] is now on 7 reports, but is still live. D'Oh! | :doh:

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- Homer

modified 10-Jul-17 15:31pm.

OriginalGriff10-Jul-17 2:47