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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

24-Jun-14 3:03

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)23-Jun-14 19:52

23-Jun-14 19:52

Article - http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=130684&aid=789212[^]

Member - http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10902118[^]

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Nelek24-Jun-14 3:03

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

24-Jun-14 3:03

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Re: Gone

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)24-Jun-14 3:09

24-Jun-14 3:09

Old Spam

Richard Deeming23-Jun-14 2:05

Richard Deeming

23-Jun-14 2:05

Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/MarksPaul[^]
Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=10459457[^]

Four "answers":

One[^] linking directly to a commercial tool;
Two[^] answers[^] (one now deleted) linking to blog posts promoting a commercial tool;
and one[^] with no obvious links, but which mentions a commercial tool;

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Old Spam

Nelek23-Jun-14 6:42

23-Jun-14 6:42

List clean, user on 9 atm

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List of Alive members

Thanks787222-Jun-14 20:50

Thanks7872

22-Jun-14 20:50

Originally reported : http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4846190/Looks-like-sock-puppetry-to-me.aspx[^]

Members : http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10896989[^]

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=6754210[^]

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=6688090[^]

Report Abuse.

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Nelek23-Jun-14 6:20

And this really looks like spam

23-Jun-14 6:20

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OriginalGriff22-Jun-14 5:08

Re: And this really looks like spam

22-Jun-14 5:08

At teh beginning, I gave these three the benefit of the doubt: but now it's getting a bit tedious...
The lounge: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4846438/Why-dont-you-all-start-posting-your-software-on-th.aspx[^]
From: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10899117[^]

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Dave Kreskowiak22-Jun-14 5:23

Re: And this really looks like spam

22-Jun-14 5:23

Well he does have 'TinyBrain' in his username, so...

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject

How to debug small programs

Dave Kreskowiak

Marco Bertschi22-Jun-14 5:50

Marco Bertschi

22-Jun-14 5:50

OriginalGriff wrote:
At teh beginning, I gave these three the benefit of the doubt: but now it's getting a bit tedious...

I was over at their site to explain the concerns of the Lounge people, so far Lothar seems to agree with me and I don't think that he will give us a hard time in the future.
Stefan, however, is a totally different topic. He for sure is on drugs, driveling about his "revolution". Nuke him, but we shall keep Lothar.

OriginalGriff wrote:
I gave these three

I spotted only two so far?

The console is a black place

Re: And this really looks like spam

OriginalGriff22-Jun-14 6:05

22-Jun-14 6:05

My bad - Lothar mentioned "3 guys" and Stefan changed his user ID from "Member 10899117" to the spam URL name.

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Nelek23-Jun-14 6:42

Looks like sock puppetry to me

23-Jun-14 6:42

Gone

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff21-Jun-14 4:16

21-Jun-14 4:16

This tip: Split Funtion in SQL Server[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/ND3[^]
Went in the moderation queue as an Article (twice) a Tip (twice) and a Reference (once) all today, and was rejected. It finally got through as a tip, I see.
But...almost immediately it starts picking up up votes and "nice comments" from members that joined today, and that's the only thing they have done...
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10897980[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10897987[^]

Looks like a rep-point harvester to me!

Michael Haephrati21-Jun-14 4:21

Michael Haephrati

21-Jun-14 4:21

I reported both. They now have 2 reports each

Dave Kreskowiak21-Jun-14 5:22

21-Jun-14 5:22

It looks like every single comment is a sock puppet, not just the two that are linked.

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject

How to debug small programs

Dave Kreskowiak

OriginalGriff21-Jun-14 5:26

21-Jun-14 5:26

Ah. There were only two when I noticed... Sigh | :sigh:

Don't they realise it would be a lot easier to just "write a good article"?

Dave Kreskowiak21-Jun-14 5:44

21-Jun-14 5:44

Nope.

And then I just ran acrossed this[^] reply in QA. Notice that the comment to his reply comes at just about the exact same time as his reply.

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject

How to debug small programs

Dave Kreskowiak

OriginalGriff21-Jun-14 5:54

21-Jun-14 5:54

And on an old answer as well?

Oh dear. He does make it easy for us, doesn't he? Laugh | :laugh:

Dave Kreskowiak21-Jun-14 6:40

21-Jun-14 6:40

It's almost unsporting!

I've already fired on him and all of his sock puppets.

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject

How to debug small programs

Dave Kreskowiak

Michael Haephrati21-Jun-14 7:29

Michael Haephrati

21-Jun-14 7:29

all gone

Nelek23-Jun-14 6:24

23-Jun-14 6:24

Seems to be cleaned up, puppets are not to be found anymore since there is no message board on the tip

M.D.V.

Spam in QA

phil.o21-Jun-14 2:28

phil.o

21-Jun-14 2:28

This user[^], in this post[^].

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Re: Spam in QA

OriginalGriff21-Jun-14 3:17