Spam and Abuse Watch

6-Jan-14 3:34

Pretty old spam messages, and a lot. I have no idea how he lasted that long. All of his messages contain at least one link to keepautomation.com, a site which seems to sell commercial barcode products for .Net.
Have a happy slapping!

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Edit: Seems like everything is gone.

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modified 6-Jan-14 13:18pm.

Re: Another one

OriginalGriff6-Jan-14 3:56

6-Jan-14 3:56

Most of his messages are now gone, and I cleaned up his QA answer which also pointed to the same place.
He needs a few more slaps though.

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

Re: Another one

Pete O'Hanlon6-Jan-14 4:01

Pete O'Hanlon

6-Jan-14 4:01

Just one more kick needed on the account. All the messages are gone.

Re: Another one

Brisingr Aerowing6-Jan-14 5:46

Brisingr Aerowing

6-Jan-14 5:46

And another one bites the dust.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

- Mitchell Kapor

[Gone]

Marco Bertschi6-Jan-14 1:02

6-Jan-14 1:02

here[^]

Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

modified 6-Jan-14 9:13am.

Re: Spammer

OriginalGriff6-Jan-14 2:58

Spam optional answer to weeks survey

6-Jan-14 2:58

Not any more it isn't, and he isn't either. Wink | ;)

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

OriginalGriff5-Jan-14 21:33

5-Jan-14 21:33

[^] contains list of links only: it would be nice if we knew who it was, so we could nuke his account?

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

Spam would be article.

OriginalGriff5-Jan-14 21:21

Re: Spam would be article.

5-Jan-14 21:21

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=107762&aid=706536[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10469573[^]

Wierd: it's clearly intended to be spam, but...he's not very good at it.
Target: pregnant women. Site: Geeks.
Purpose: Get sales. Method: don't post address.

Um. Sigh | :sigh:

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

Marco Bertschi5-Jan-14 21:45

Re: Spam would be article. [All Gone]

5-Jan-14 21:45

The article is gone. User still needs a few kicks.

Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

André Kraak5-Jan-14 23:07

André Kraak

5-Jan-14 23:07

Both gone now.

Spam would be Tip update.

SoMad4-Jan-14 2:26

SoMad

4-Jan-14 2:26

I just knew it when this Tip was first submitted, but it did not contain actual spam at that time. It was approved and now it has an update with a nice little link at the end.
Member: @robinthomaschd
Tip: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=107558&aid=705827[^]

Soren Madsen

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

Re: Spam would be Tip update.

Thomas Daniels4-Jan-14 2:42

Thomas Daniels

4-Jan-14 2:42

I just posted a message telling that the author shouldn't include links to commercial products. He is a new member, so I assume that he didn't yet know that links to commercial products are considered spam. If he does not remove the link, however, then I'll report his account as spammer.

The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.

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Re: Spam would be Tip update.

OriginalGriff4-Jan-14 4:18

Re: Spam would be Tip update.

4-Jan-14 4:18

Too late - the tip and account are both gone...

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

SoMad5-Jan-14 23:29

SoMad

5-Jan-14 23:29

I received an email from the author, saying he would remove the link, but that his account is disabled.
I forwarded the email to Chris and asked him to reinstate the account if he thinks I made a mistake. I admit that is always a possibility.

Soren Madsen

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

Spam would be article.

OriginalGriff3-Jan-14 21:05

Re: Spam would be article.

3-Jan-14 21:05

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=107538&aid=705881[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/NikhilPethe[^]

Is just a puff for his android app...

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

Nelek3-Jan-14 23:27

Nelek

3-Jan-14 23:27

Both gone

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

Valid response?

jschell3-Jan-14 9:31

jschell

3-Jan-14 9:31

So in the response below the poster is, presumably, answering the question by providing a link to another site where the poster supposedly answered the question. So is that a valid way to answer a question on this site?

http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4730221/Re-Implementation-of-Loose-Coupling-Pattern.aspx[^]

Brisingr Aerowing3-Jan-14 10:42

Brisingr Aerowing

3-Jan-14 10:42

AFAIK, it is not. That is site-driving spam.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

- Mitchell Kapor

Nelek3-Jan-14 11:16

Nelek

3-Jan-14 11:16

He didn't answered the question in the other site. He asked something and the answers can be useful for the Enquirer here.

jschell wrote:
So is that a valid way to answer a question on this site?

It is something difficult to generalize.
If the user is waking up old questions and all answers point to the same place... yes, I consider it spam.
But if the user has a blog and puts a link in a single question pointing to a well written article of his... I don't report it
There are a lot of answers with links to Stackoverflow, MSDN forums and many other places in the net and that does is allowed.

I think the most important criteria is (at least is the one I try to follow) is the answer-poster trying to help? or trying to attrack traffic to the other site through the link?

In the case you are pointing... I have checked other messages of that user, and they have links to other places totally different and mostly according to the question. So I don't think he is a spammer.

M.D.V.

Marco Bertschi3-Jan-14 11:35

3-Jan-14 11:35

I second that.

Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

OriginalGriff3-Jan-14 19:52

3-Jan-14 19:52

Nelek is right, it's all down to context, and the other responses from the same poster. I don't think it's a problem in this case, and it's certainly a better way to answer a question than plagiarising the answer he was given and posting it as his own! Laugh | :laugh:

I don't think the OP deserved to be downvoted for that, and have upvoted it in compensation.

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam

jschell12-Jan-14 8:35

jschell

12-Jan-14 8:35

OriginalGriff wrote:
I don't think the OP deserved to be downvoted for that, and have upvoted it in compensation.

I didn't down vote it nor report it.

OriginalGriff12-Jan-14 21:54