Spam and Abuse Watch

10-Jan-13 21:16

This member: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8138646[^]
Has posted at least four plagiarised would-be articles:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=57344&aid=525929[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=57342&aid=525910[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=57340&aid=525839[^]

There may be others in the moderation queue when these are gone.
Not acceptable!

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

__TR__10-Jan-13 21:29

__TR__

10-Jan-13 21:29

I get the below message when i open the article.

This article has not yet been approved for publication by our membership. It should be available soon.
Please go to the ASP.NET Table of Contents to view the list of available articles in this section.

But I can still report the article. Is it OK to go ahead and report it without looking at it?

SoMad10-Jan-13 21:32

SoMad

10-Jan-13 21:32

I cannot see them either, but I trust the top dog. Blush | :O

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

__TR__10-Jan-13 23:28

__TR__

10-Jan-13 23:28

SoMad wrote:
I trust the top dog.

So do I. I was just not sure if its fine to report the articles without looking at them.

Pete O'Hanlon10-Jan-13 23:35

Pete O'Hanlon

10-Jan-13 23:35

You can't report them if you can't see them. The report option is on the article itself.

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

SoMad11-Jan-13 7:36

SoMad

11-Jan-13 7:36

Actually you can. I got the same message as __TR__ and above it there was a red reporting flag.
If this is not the way it is supposed to be (and I agree it seems wrong), then it should be fixed.

--Updated my description to past tense since the articles are gone.

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

modified 11-Jan-13 16:06pm.

Pete O'Hanlon10-Jan-13 23:26

Pete O'Hanlon

10-Jan-13 23:26

I've deleted them, and the one on the home page about Unity.

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

OriginalGriff11-Jan-13 0:06

Agan, massive cheating with fake "answers" and self-accepting them [already gone]

11-Jan-13 0:06

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

(new) streamer

cptKoala10-Jan-13 20:46

cptKoala

10-Jan-13 20:46

@~~~~~~~~~~!>Kirsten Flipkens vs Mona Barthel Tennis Live stream online HD TV[^]

by this chap
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9744001[^]

Gone

Nelek12-Jan-13 6:09

Nelek

12-Jan-13 6:09

Gone

Regards.
--------
M.D.V. Wink | ;)

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 helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov10-Jan-13 8:03

Re: Agan, massive cheating with fake "answers" and self-accepting them

10-Jan-13 8:03

Look at this person: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/shefeekcm[^][^].

She/he has 33 questions and 66 answers. Are they really all answers? No; I checked up some. And this person massively formally accepts own fake answers. I cannot understand why.

I think this is the abuse.

[EDIT]

As OriginalGriff informed me, gone by now. Thank you.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

modified 10-Jan-13 14:21pm.

OriginalGriff10-Jan-13 8:16

Re: Agan, massive cheating with fake "answers" and self-accepting them

10-Jan-13 8:16

Nor can anyone else - they gone!

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov10-Jan-13 8:20

10-Jan-13 8:20

Good riddance, thank you.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Doh!

Sandeep Mewara10-Jan-13 4:54

Sandeep Mewara

10-Jan-13 4:54

This one: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9482502[^]

Posting junk answers probably for points, few examples:
Change the position of array item in vb.net[^]
Get Image from Video[^]
wcf end point in client and service[^]
...many more

Sandeep Mewara
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP 2012 & 2013

[My Latest Article(s)]:
How to extend a WPF Textbox to Custom Picker
Server side Delimiters in ASP.NET

OriginalGriff10-Jan-13 5:52

10-Jan-13 5:52

Well, his points hunt didn't work out too well did it? Oops...he gone.

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

Sandeep Mewara10-Jan-13 5:53

Sandeep Mewara

10-Jan-13 5:53

Looks like so!

Sandeep Mewara
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP 2012 & 2013

[My Latest Article(s)]:
How to extend a WPF Textbox to Custom Picker
Server side Delimiters in ASP.NET

fjdiewornncalwe10-Jan-13 7:47

fjdiewornncalwe

10-Jan-13 7:47

I had warned him a few times to see if he would get the hint.

Apparently not. D'Oh! | :doh:

I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov10-Jan-13 8:10

Re: How to deal this guy?

10-Jan-13 8:10

Oh, such things are so typical these days, so I don't even bother reporting them. I just down-vote/remove and report for abuse formally, and often ignore. Maybe it would be a right thing to report it here, but there are too many of them. I even nearly stopped to report extreme rudeness, even the use of bad works which I especially dislike… OK, I'm casting my reports now.

I only report in case of outstanding impudence. By the way, look at the member I just reported above, about fake "answers" and self-accepting them.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

How to deal this guy?

Jibesh9-Jan-13 14:46

Jibesh

9-Jan-13 14:46

dsadsd3232[^]

Best practices in developing ASP.NET applications[^]
Storing and Retrieving List object in Session[^]

Jibesh V P

modified 10-Jan-13 0:42am.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov9-Jan-13 17:30

EWhy do we have to deal with such a freak?

9-Jan-13 17:30

I removed the false answer, and about an article, I would be careful.

I could be just an incomplete article exposed by mistake. You see, for instance, I also have an incomplete article right now. When I started it, planning to complete in few stages later, probably some minor bug in CodeProject code prevented me from keeping it in hidden "work in progress" state. I complained about it at each post and tried to keep the check box "work in progress" checked, and it wasn't successful for a while. Now it's not in my list of works, so I can complete later.

So, the article of this guy could be exposed just by some mistake. It is also not listed in this guy's list of works.

At the same time, strange thing is that the account has -25 in down-votes. Why, with only two posts? Could be a bug, but could be a sign of some past abuse, but the posts were removed...

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov9-Jan-13 12:55