Fake, plagiarized Q&A answers, by verbose copying of existing posts (gone)

:note: Until we meet again :note:

Actually funny since this chap has been a member for eleven years...

Yeah - and done nothing at all in that time! Strange chap...

You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)

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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.

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=137241&aid=807900[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/pigboat[^]

I know it says "free tools" but there is nothing else there...

You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)

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.

Member: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11014177[^]
Article: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=137238&aid=807901[^]

Soren Madsen

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

10th kick applied.

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

We don't need such answers. We all learn from others, but we either reference past answers with proper attribution, or learn just the basic ideas but write our own texts and code samples to develop and propagate those ideas, improving something. But here, we face verbose copying of existing posts created by others. I'm talking about this member:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10037243[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Ballzz[^].

Let's see:
How to deserialize json array in c#[^].
The code fragment is copied from the answer referenced on the same page:
How To Convert object type to C# class object type[^].

I immediately spotted it: even the variable names and string constants used as a sample are exactly the same.

Let's look at the previous "answer":
Why does c# doesn't support Multiple inheritance?[^].
Pretty helplessly looking "answer". No wonder, the whole text is verbosely copied from a bigger MSDN post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/07/why-doesn-t-c-support-multiple-inheritance.aspx[^].
The text is selected without any thinking, just last two paragraphs ripped out of context.

But at this moment, there are 15 answers. Maybe I can find one original answer? Let me try again:
how send json data from c# to php[^].
The code sample is big enough, totally identical to the earlier stackoverflow answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12589229/unable-to-send-json-data-from-c-sharp-to-php-server[^].

Many of the code fragments carry some original unique features leaving no doubt in plagiarizing: style, naming, formatting, wording. Obviously recognizable.

Frankly, I'm tired. I think this is enough: it three last answers in a raw are verbose copies of posts of others, I don't want to look any further. The worst thing is that person probably don't even understand that he is doing something bad; probably he thinks that he is really helping. In the last case (referenced as the very first example above), OP commented that it was a copy of an exact answer, Bala wasn't ashamed at all. How is it possible to tolerate such things?

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

modified 5-Jun-15 1:35am.

Even his avatar image is stolen from Jeff Atwood: http://blog.codinghorror.com/[^] D'Oh! | :doh:

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

More direct copies from StackOverflow without links to the source:
how to read gridview value from one page to another[^] (Solution 1)
How to Pass a value to SSIS package in C#?[^] (Solution 1)

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

I won't be surprised at all to know that all his "answers" are like that. I just think what we already spotted is more than enough. Smile | :)

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

LOL, he even literally copied one of my answers for questions about "How-To..."

Should I take it as a compliment?? Laugh | :laugh:

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.

Amazing person. I think he needs to be knocked out of here, even if it needs another post in this forum. Smile | :)

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Gone

cheers
Chris Maunder

Good riddance.
Thank you very much.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Spam: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4879372/Re-Startup-Item-Enabled-Disabled.aspx[^]
Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Roomantech[^]

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

Final one applied....

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

There is one user posting the same comment under dozens of articles. Partly there are four comments within a single minute.

User: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=47764[^]

Messages: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Messages.aspx?fmid=47764[^]

I would consider this as spam. What do you think?

It just seems that he uses a 'standard text' when voting an article. That shouldn't be considered as spam nor abusive.

My first impression would be a no.

But I am bloody sure that he is rating articles without reading them just to increase the rep points. Also his messages are exact same. But not sure if that falls under spam.. Unsure | :~

Great catch by the way! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!

Agent__007 wrote:
Also his messages are exact same.

Note to self: Next time onwards we should leave some GUID

thatraja

Code converters | Education Needed | Improve Everything^New

Great comment, about the GUID!

Now, even if some behavior may look irritating to some, there is absolutely no reason to dub it spam just for that.
Both voting and leaving a comment (related to the commented post) is the activity which is supposed to take place there.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Not Spam. Spam is simply Advertising something. This is not Abuse as well because there is nothing abusive in that message. ATM, i think warning would suffice to curb the reputation hunting.

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

Rohan Leuva wrote:
This is not Abuse as well because there is nothing abusive in that message

You have not quite grasped the concept of abuse. Abusiveness can be in form of abusive language (trolling, hate speech, etc), but it can also be abusive in the sense of being abusive in the usage of codeproject. Rep-point harvesting (especially when it is as obvious as this) is most certainly abuse. Abuse is actually any use of something in a way that it was not intended to be used (I know that this is a very wide definition so we have to apply some common sense also).

Cheers!

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

It's not spam: it's abuse, but it's not worth banning yet.
I've given him a warning: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4882204/Re-My-vote-of.aspx[^] - let's see what he does from here.

You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)

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