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12-Mar-12 6:52

Perhaps they thought the article content so good they inferred it must have been copied and pasted from a "professional" source. Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: A definite Troll

Nagy Vilmos13-Mar-12 3:44

Nagy Vilmos

13-Mar-12 3:44

You mean that Sasha and Nish are only amateur at being awesome? Who knew?

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thatraja13-Mar-12 4:55

thatraja

13-Mar-12 4:55

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
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Question re-post spam

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov11-Mar-12 22:52

Re: Question re-post spam

11-Mar-12 22:52

This is maybe unusual to report technical questions as spam, but this person asked the same question at least 4 times (as far as I remember). I deleted two posts as not making sense and warned OP twice that such questions are not correct. I also warned that I will report it as spam in case of re-posts. Soon after my warnings OP posted the same question two times in a row. Previous versions of the same "question" were even shorted, without any sign of a question.

It's good to read the question to have a feel of it:
Textbox return ' for ' (single quote) in asp.net. i want ' (single quote) not ' in my textbox. Can any one tells this solution.[^],
Textbox return #39; for ' (single code) in asp.net. i want ' (single code) not #39; in my textbox. Can any one tells this solution.[^].

The OP:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8635368[^].

Thank you,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Simon_Whale12-Mar-12 7:17

Simon_Whale

12-Mar-12 7:17

I don't think it was Spam, just reposting as he hadn't had an answer when the OP was expecting one

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Re: Question re-post spam

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov12-Mar-12 7:20

Another hand bag agent -- account still alive (now 3 of them)

12-Mar-12 7:20

This is not a reason for multiple re-posts. Finally, one of those questions was answered. Too bad I could not understand the question. But it was too short, not clear enough and formally not a question.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov11-Mar-12 9:15

11-Mar-12 9:15

Here is the account:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/oamccrorytheo[^].

Spammed here:
How to diable WCF service metadata post[^].

[EDIT]

And one more:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/sraspsimon[^].

Spammed here:
Display query from DB[^].

Another one:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/lnefieldrobb[^].

Spammed here:
replacement for document.write[^].

Thank you,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

modified 11-Mar-12 23:28pm.

Q&A Spammer

André Kraak11-Mar-12 7:53

André Kraak

11-Mar-12 7:53

This http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8675591[^] spammed How to diable WCF service metadata post[^].

The spam has been removed.

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One more spammer

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov10-Mar-12 21:15

10-Mar-12 21:15

Offender's account we don't want:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/nerinkent[^].

Spammed here:
how to convert small letters to capital letters in vb6 programing[^].

Thank you,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Wayne Gaylard10-Mar-12 21:23

Wayne Gaylard

10-Mar-12 21:23

Hi SA, I've trusted your judgement on these spammers, but you have removed the messages these guys posted, and so cannot judge for myself whether the message was spam or not. Maybe it would be a better policy to wait until the spammers account has been disabled before removing the message, so that other members can confirm that the message is actually spam. I am sure that you could foresee your current policy being abused by someone, to get rid of a particular member that they do not like. Just a thought.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov11-Mar-12 22:27

11-Mar-12 22:27

Maybe. I'm too much irritated by the space taken on the page. I still think better policy would be change of content like I do but not removing the post — this way it's easier to locate other spam posts by the account.

And you don't have to trust me or not: the original post remains in the history. Just click of version.

Thank you,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Wayne Gaylard12-Mar-12 0:44

Wayne Gaylard

12-Mar-12 0:44

SAKryukov wrote:
the original post remains in the history. Just click of version.

I stand corrected - my bad. I never thought to look into that, thanks. In that case you are doing the best thing.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov12-Mar-12 6:38

Account of spamming frau to go

12-Mar-12 6:38

Thank you for justification. Let's do this. To me, not deleting posts finally before the account is removed or disabled is better, but some will removed such posts anyway. Maybe all we need is not ignoring them, reporting them here.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov10-Mar-12 19:56

Re: Account of spamming frau to go

10-Mar-12 19:56

Here is the member we don't want:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/fraufbasi[^].

Spammed here:
Term of use/Policy for a website[^].

Thank you,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

AspDotNetDev10-Mar-12 21:17

10-Mar-12 21:17

I reported their account as a spammer and it said "1 report" (mine). Did you not report them as spam?

Re: Account of spamming frau to go

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov11-Mar-12 22:28

11-Mar-12 22:28

Thank you for the note — I might have forgotten it. Anyway, the spammers reported here are removed. It's much more important to remove the account.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Yet another one...

Dave Kreskowiak10-Mar-12 18:07

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Mar-12 18:07

http://www.codeproject.com/Members/aalina0[^]

We REALLY need to institute a system where you cannot post an article unless you've built up your reputation to some level.

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Dave Kreskowiak

AspDotNetDev10-Mar-12 18:28

10-Mar-12 18:28

Aren't new articles subject to approval? And aren't unapproved articles only visible to those with sufficient reputation? In that case, I'd say that's a pretty good system. Most visitors won't see spam articles... they'll be deleted first.

And Chris has mentioned in the past that having a barrier to writing articles (in this case, a required level of reputation) is not ideal because that prevents potential authors from posting them. Not to mention that some people may only contribute articles, so the only other way for them go gain reputation would be when they view the site while logged in, which could take a while to build up the required reputation. We should allow an author to post an article as their first contribution on their first day as a member.

Dave Kreskowiak11-Mar-12 10:11

Dave Kreskowiak

11-Mar-12 10:11

AspDotNetDev wrote:
Aren't new articles subject to approval? And aren't unapproved articles only
visible to those with sufficient reputation?

You know how sick I am of disapproving spam articles?? I'd like to concentrate only on the legit articles.

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Dave Kreskowiak

AspDotNetDev11-Mar-12 10:42

11-Mar-12 10:42

How many spam articles are we talking? 1 spam for every 1 real article? 10 to 1? 1 to 10?

Dave Kreskowiak12-Mar-12 4:38

Dave Kreskowiak

12-Mar-12 4:38

To me, seems like one out of every 10 is an ad lately.

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AspDotNetDev12-Mar-12 6:44

12-Mar-12 6:44

That doesn't seem like too much to handle, IMO. I would think that spam articles are faster to reject than good articles are to accept (spam is usually pretty obvious).