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Re: A member that votes 1 for some articles without a good reason

13-Feb-13 7:58

And how did you find him? His posts are usually with one or two years between Poke tongue | ;-P

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Thomas Daniels13-Feb-13 8:03

Re: A member that votes 1 for some articles without a good reason

13-Feb-13 8:03

I was reading an article, and I saw his comment.

In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...

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Nelek14-Feb-13 21:22

Re: A member that votes 1 for some articles without a good reason

14-Feb-13 21:22

Good catch

M.D.V.

Thomas Daniels14-Feb-13 21:26

14-Feb-13 21:26

Thank you!

In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...

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ProgramFOX

Somehow strange....

Marco Bertschi13-Feb-13 0:00

13-Feb-13 0:00

How can this guy[^] have a gold status in participation without posting more than two messages in the chinese forums?

SoMad13-Feb-13 0:24

13-Feb-13 0:24

Nice catch.

They fixed a bug in the system about a month ago that could explain this. I have not seen any official post about this, so I don't know if that is the sort of thing they don't want to talk about.
For him to get that many points right around the time he signed up, he must have noticed the bug and exploited it.

My participation points are also inflated due to this - I don't remember by how much (maybe 600 points), but I figure they are going to correct it with one of their adjustments some day.

Soren Madsen

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

Thomas Daniels13-Feb-13 0:36

13-Feb-13 0:36

SoMad wrote:
I have not seen any official post about this, so I don't know if that is the sort of thing they don't want to talk about.

It's not an official post about this, but I posted this message that could explain the bug:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4443775/Deselecting-a-newsletter.aspx[^]

In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...

ASP

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ProgramFOX

SoMad13-Feb-13 0:42

13-Feb-13 0:42

That was the bug I was thinking about.

Soren Madsen

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

Thomas Daniels13-Feb-13 0:28

13-Feb-13 0:28

I think it was a bug I've reported once (the bug is fixed now). The bug was that you got 350 participant points if you deselected a newsletter:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4443775/Deselecting-a-newsletter.aspx[^]

In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...

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ProgramFOX

Manfred Rudolf Bihy13-Feb-13 1:11

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

13-Feb-13 1:11

This has nothing to do with a bug. The member you mentioned has mostly participant reputation points.
Since you didn't even try to find out what that means, you can follow this link and start reading:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Reputation.aspx#Participant[^]

D'Oh! | :doh:

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SoMad13-Feb-13 1:21

13-Feb-13 1:21

You are correct, but if you look at his profile, you will see that he has only been a member for 2 months. If you then look at the graph with his reputation history, it appears his points shot up to around 1600 on the first day.

Soren Madsen

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

Marco Bertschi13-Feb-13 1:23

13-Feb-13 1:23

I knew the page but somehow I messed it up with the debator section D'Oh! | :doh:

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Sorry for that (But I still think it is curious - see SoMads post above mine).

Stream Spammer

Pete O'Hanlon12-Feb-13 22:45

Pete O'Hanlon

12-Feb-13 22:45

I've removed the QA spam for this[^] user, but he was advertising a Real Madrid stream.

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Re: Stream Spammer

Marco Bertschi12-Feb-13 23:59

Commercial product spammers. [All Gone!]

12-Feb-13 23:59

He is gone.

SoMad12-Feb-13 21:46

Re: Commercial product spammers.

12-Feb-13 21:46

It is probably just one individual sitting behind the screen and controlling these accounts:
Account: Samuel Steam[^]
Answer(s): http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=9831436[^]

Account: Stavros Sinakis[^]
Answer(s): http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=9831588[^]

Account: Iver Statoil[^]
Answer(s): http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=9831614[^]

There could be more, but they are pretty easy to spot.

Soren Madsen

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

modified 13-Feb-13 6:26am.

Marco Bertschi12-Feb-13 23:59

Re: Fresh meats [All Gone]

12-Feb-13 23:59

All gone.

Fresh meats -All gone

Jibesh12-Feb-13 16:48

Jibesh

12-Feb-13 16:48

http://www.codeproject.com/Members/mlevcerta[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/hgbcvbghf-b[^]

Guidelines for posting questions in the forum

Jibesh V P

SoMad12-Feb-13 17:11

12-Feb-13 17:11

And this outstanding new member: ~~jyedywdtds[^]~~

This one came back for more: ~~shjhjiujig[^]~~

Soren Madsen

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

Re: Fresh meats [More]

Nelek12-Feb-13 21:04

12-Feb-13 21:04

jyedywdtds gone

M.D.V.

Re: Fresh meats

Nelek12-Feb-13 21:04

12-Feb-13 21:04

mlevcerta and hgbcvbghf-b gone

M.D.V.

Sock puppeteer detected

Marco Bertschi12-Feb-13 9:23

Re: Sock puppeteer detected

12-Feb-13 9:23

~~This guy[^] is a sock puppet of this dear gentleman[^].~~
Edit: These two are sock puppets of each other ?? WTF | :WTF:

:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8657013[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9547874[^]

Mits Machhi[^] has voted on several articles of Ashish Chauda and has only posted a Question in the wrong forum[^] and voted another article JFF (Rendering XML Data as HTML using XSL Transformation and ASP.NET XML Control[^]):

Export Gridview Data to Excel in ASP.NET[^]
www.codeproject.com/Messages/4252161/User-Redirect-To-the-login-page-after-the-idle-tim.aspx[^]
Dynamically adding and deleting rows from ASP.NET GridView[^]
Dynamically adding and deleting rows from ASP.NET GridView[^]

PO'H, Richard MacCutchan, Jimmy Savile, Marcus Kramer and I had already an argument with Mitesh Machhi[^] in Sugs and Bugs forum[^] with him about activating his old account (Which, if Marcus remembers right, was closed because of sock-puppeteering and according to Mitesh was named Mits Machhi)) and now he is back cross-voting and sock-puppeteering around. Do we really need them?

PS: Crazy story this thing. Took me 30 minutes to get all the stuff trough and collect the evidences WTF | :WTF:

cheers,
Marco Bertschi

Jibesh12-Feb-13 10:15

Jibesh

12-Feb-13 10:15

Good Job Marco. I send him one more warning if he continue doing this we can request to disable both his accounts.

Guidelines for posting questions in the forum

Jibesh V P

Re: Sock puppeteer detected

Marco Bertschi12-Feb-13 10:20