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Just opened CP homepage and happen to see the vote count on the article competition survey. I remember the details couple of days back. May be it is OK, but I see sudden vote jump atleast in WebDev & Overall category (Total numbers suddenly increased at a super rate and WebDev total has suddenly crossed Overall). Around 25+ votes in 2 days that too for a single article[^].
Has someone else observed the same? As said, I may be wrong but to me it definitely looks like worth looking into.
BTW, the gap is still there. If it is sock-puppet account case, we can see more votes and hike at good rate!
modified 20-Mar-13 5:59am.
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At least 90% of the accounts that leaved a "My Vote of 5" message seem legitime, mostly over a year old. With reputation enough to be active users and with pictures.
I have just given a quick check without reading the content and it is not a thema where I am good at. But at least the format and how it is designed looks nice.
There are many cases of socket pupeteers but in this one, I don't think it (or at least is not that evident)
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
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: At least 90% of the accounts that leaved a "My Vote of 5" message seem legitime
Sounds like you are talking of article votes. I am talking of the survey competition votes which are hard to review. About article, yes, votes look legitimate.
Thanks for having a look. I know, survey results are reviewed by CP team and made sure as much possible that only legit votes are counted. This looked like an odd case of 20+ votes in 2 days suddenly.
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Fear not. We do indeed review the survey results carefully and ensure cheaters will never prosper.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Just noticed I pasted a wrong URL to the article I was discussing. My bad. 
Corrected it now.
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It looks like this kind of abuse is more and more getting the trend.
During last days, I was amazing some most invalid, illiterate or otherwise helpless questions, and wanted to look at other posts of the same members. To my surprise, many of them became "experts" answering questions. Yes, in some cases, those answers were legitimate, good or bad. I don't mention them. But many, very many fake answers. Here is what I got recently:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/aftab5124[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Ahamed-Azeem[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/AhmadMirzaee[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/AJ83[^] (very bad!),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/amityadav4a[^] (bad, 100% fake),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Andrewpeter[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/ashok_89[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Balamurugan1989[^] (very bad!),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/defunktlemon[^] (very bad),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Dhritirao1221[^], (very bad! trying to cheat explicitly, hiding the fact of self-answering, massive, account banned),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Donald-Allen[^] (very bad!),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/glennPattonWork[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/gvprabu[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/halabella[^] (very bad!),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/HariPrasad-Inakoti[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/hemantwithu[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Idle_Force[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/jobin007007[^] (extremely bad, with plagiarism),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/larssy1[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/leaderbalaji[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Manuel-Perez-II[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Mas11[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/melberry[^] (very, very bad),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/mrinal_kumar_jha[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Navas-Khanj[^] (very bad),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/ntitish[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Rajesh-Vetrivel[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/saeed1364[^] (very bad, all self-accepted),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Shupp[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/sushantraje2000[^] (very bad),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Taresh89[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Tarun-Batra[^] (explicitly misrepresented self-answers as help provided for someone),
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/UL-UL-ALBAB[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Yvar-Birx[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Zafar248[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=3892343[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9501115[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/09hadi[^] (explicit cheating, misrepresented self-answers as help provided for someone).
This is not all. I left out nearly as many abusers or potential abusers. I did not pay much attention unless people self-accepted the "answers". Some good number of them I already warned and removed fake answers; some even promised to stop bad practice. And I am not sure about some more, as the abuse looks minor.
This is sad.
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 19-Mar-13 16:37pm.
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Agree, the comment is spam, the author even misrepresent the content of this page, to certain extent, which looks like mocking a relevant comment, which is not really relevant.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I am convinced this member posted a Tip in order to advertise a commercial library.
Member: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/damir-sarcevic[^]
Tip/Trick: C# PDF printing with a .NET library [^]
[The next revision of the Tip is currently in the Approval queue]
His sock puppet[^] posts a link to the library's website here[^]. At the bottom right of that page, there is a link to the company's main website.
How do I know this is a sock puppet? Well, besides being created on the same day the Tip was first approved, that member has done nothing except post 3 well timed messages on the Tip. Also, the Tip author was kind enough to post his own email address here[^] (he has since changed the name of his profile). The name in the email address is very similar to the name of the sock puppet.
He has also posted a couple of Answers in QA linking to a command line version of the library (after opening the linked page, I had to go to "Pricing" and "Purchase" to see the actual name of the company).
Answer 1: Printing pdf files with c#[^]
Answer 2: Print PDF silently from server using C# ASP.net doesn't work[^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
modified 19-Mar-13 7:04am.
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The member and the sock puppet are gone!
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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All gone. Where's the victory-gin?
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Nagy drank it all.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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No... Not my emergency bottle on the top of my printer 
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... even the one taped under the desk at the back!
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I think I said it a bit wrong: No he did not drink the mergency bottle. It is just full and well.
Fine 2007 Blackwood's Vintage Dry Gin by Drew Adamson  .
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Shhh! Not so loud!
If he hears, he'll feed a straw across the channel and empty it while your back is turned...
He's like a Gin magnet 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Since switzerland is not a EU-member he could get problems with that at the border 
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Déjà vu...again 
He keeps posting that stuff, but must know by now that it's never going to become an article.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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All of these should already have several reports, so expect them to perish quickly.
Sunday:
tubolkokainmo[^]
Member 9918786[^]
Saturday:
jessdgfg[^]
khukon[^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
modified 18-Mar-13 12:26pm.
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SoMad wrote: (BTW, how did this one get 1,153 Participan points the first day?)
I can't say. But I would suspect either he has opted in to all the newsletters, voted in all the available surveys and posted a lot of spam. Or he is a polish hamster who has seeked into CP.
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